Posted on 11/03/2005 5:56:05 AM PST by BooksForTheRight.com
The Senate is witnessing a real-life revenge of the nerd.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Great! Who will be the first Senator to ask "boxers or briefs"? This is what we've come to?
I actually thought it was pretty funny. But it was something I'd expect to see in a high school or college newspaper.
Although this is a trite article, it is very true. Alito is a total nerd, even by standards of dorky politicians.
OK.... I'm going to try to tell this story as accurately as I heard it yesterday on 'Quinn in The Morning' in Pittsburgh.
As I remember.........a few years ago Alito was working somewhere as a judge (I think) and some big Democrat had a new office in a building nearby and had decided to get a couple of those ostentatious, large concrete or marble lions put outside his office ............ one on each side of the door at the entrance.
Alito, along with everyone else, thought the sculptures were way over the top in "degree of pomposity". So...... he asked a couple of his staff to go out on the town and try to find him a couple of those PINK FLAMINGOES you put in your yard............ he then put them outside the entrance to his office for a few laughs. It supposedly was a riot!
I'll take the nerd any time!
A Phillies fan! I knew he couldn't be all bad!(Maybe it helps him with Arlen Specter).
I like strict constitutional nerds :)
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Let's see. Is this the worst thing Dana Milbank can say about Alito? That he coaches Little League baseball and takes his duties to the kids seriously? That he has enough politeness to shake hands with a Democrat, and is somewhat confused for a moment when the Democrat refuses to shake hands with him?
Sounds pretty refreshing to me. What, no Yuppie Self Importance? Good.
They had great seats right behind the team's bench.
After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.
"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "Especially the tight pants and all the big muscles. But I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."
Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well, they flipped a coin, and one team got it. Then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...helloooooo!!! It's only 25 cents!!!"
Wow, is the left really that desperate? It can't think of anything else to attack him with, so it goes out and calls him a nerd.
and when it comes to q and a time, then we will see who the real nerds are.
Alito does seems well...nerdy.
But that's fine with me, introverts are good people, especially Italian introverts.
This news writer used the words "bespectacled, dweeb, wonk, nerd, geek, Bobblehead, misfit, dork." in describing Alito.
The news writer is on the left.
It is the left that crows and preaches about tolerance, sexism, lookism. Milbank is showing his intolerance.
This writer (milbankd@washpost.com) has lost any credibility.
I suggest that you tell him so.
Milbank has been known for his extreme disrespect for President Bush since at least 2001, going beyond other members of the Washington press corps. There is some interesting material about him in the book Bill Sammon wrote about Bush's handling of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Better a nerd than a turd.
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