Super duper BS. It's amazing how many still have that little memory slip. W nominated Harriet Meirs for the second SCOTUS opening, and only after a near uprising of conservatives did he back off and appoint Alito, and not before Laura called us all sexists.
And some believe that he desired to appoint Alberto Gonzalez to the first opening, but was dissuaded from that in private.
W's handling of the SCOTUS openings deserves little or no praise. The dissuaders, public and private, deserve the praise.
So do you piss on Reagan’s grave for O’Connor and Kennedy? And RR signed amnesty...I guess he SUCKED, right? Your misreading of history, selective memory and refusal to acknowledge achievements and only see shortcomings in the body politic are indicative of one with little real world experience and mere “ivory tower” ideology.
Folks, we really need to stop our “all or nothing” lockstep mentality. William Buckley realized conservatism was more than an academic tour de force: it is ALSO the belief system of the “everyday” man, whether they realize it or not. And there ARE different degrees of conservatism. Not all of us are going to agree 100% of the time. We ought to be ashamed for even thinking that would be the case.
Consider the lesson of the Framers of our Constitution: you had ardent federalists like Hamilton and you had die-hard state-rights men like Charles Pickney. But they all agreed the Articles of Confederation weren’t working...and that the nation as a whole was in danger if the current path continued.
We are in the same dire straits today, my friends. We are facing a tyranny of government—homegrown or foreign—that will enslave ALL of us regardless of race, religion, or right-wing purity. Disagree if you must with each other, but never lose sight of the real enemy. Or our Republic may not endure.