Mr. Roberts

Jul 19, 2005 21:43

So Mr. Bush picked out a relatively unknown guy for the bench ( Read more... )

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twizmer July 20 2005, 02:31:19 UTC
He seems like the kind of candidate senate liberals should accept. Obviously you're going to get a conservative candidate; this is a conservative president, after all. But he appears competent, qualified, and non crazy. You're right; the Democrat's really aren't going to have much to fight him with. Personally, I wonder if fighting is worth it. At the least it will be an expenditure of political capital; at worst, they may end up looking dumb/petty/etc. for fighting a (more or less) reasonable candidate (and losing).

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twizmer July 20 2005, 02:31:45 UTC
Also, points to Bush for not doing anything crazy, as I was slightly afraid he would.

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moki_blog July 20 2005, 02:38:34 UTC
what surprised me was that he didn't pick a minority or female candidate, which would have made things even harder for the Democrats. There are plenty of strong conservative minority and/or female candidates out there, such as Gonzalez, Priscilla, etc. Ok, maybe those two would have been nuked in confirmation. But there were others, and Laura Bush and others were pushing for it... maybe he's leaving that for chief justice?

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twizmer July 20 2005, 02:50:39 UTC
I suppose you could argue that appointing a minority/female would seem to much like a race-baiting type thing, but that really doesn't hold water.
I think you've nailed it; "First Minority Chief Justice" just has such a nice ring to it.

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__downthathill July 20 2005, 02:55:59 UTC
wow - thank you for your post - it was so thorough/informative/awesome.

I remember reading a list of *potential* candidates and thinking that this guy seemed to be a lesser of many many evils. so this isn't *that* bad I guess.

wow - it's sad when politics has become a "meh. could be worse" deal. First Kerry, and now this.

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lakshigiorgi July 20 2005, 03:00:45 UTC
If not for the religion in schools thing, I'd support the guy.
But he won't dare try anything like that - the Court does tend to moderate people...and as much as some of you dislike Scalia, I find many good tendencies in him.

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moki_blog July 20 2005, 13:10:53 UTC
I don't know, given the recent trends in political opinion, I think he has good popular standing to try to push religion in schools. I can see it...

The moral values in America are what's at stake. We are being attacked by the infidels around us, try to push heathenry and atheism, trying to corrupt our children. We stand for a strong America, with the principles in Christianity that our founders ingrained into our great nation!

Or something like that. *shudder* Don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking Christianity, it's just that I'd rather not have it forced on me. Because at that point, how different are we from a lot of the more radical Islamic states (Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc) that force their people into Islam?

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twizmer July 20 2005, 14:19:07 UTC
I'm pretty sure saying "infidel" is a good way to lose.

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empress_milica July 20 2005, 03:11:43 UTC
The Democratic Party is screwed in general. *cries*

He...could be worse.

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teriden July 20 2005, 03:23:18 UTC
Wow. Moki, you have mad crazy information-gathering skills.

Eh, he's not as scary as he could be. But... pobre Democrats.

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