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Alito's "Run and Hide" Strategy; What Some Conservatives Think of It
Topic Started: Dec 6 2005, 03:52 AM (146 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
Alito is being forced to deal with some memos he wrote 20 years ago, indicating that he thought that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided.

Instead of acknowledging that those are his views, Alito is now saying that he was merely working for the Reagan Administration and expressing the Administration's views, or that he was saying what he thought would be well-received on a job application.

Here's an excerpt from a Washington Post story. I've only excerpted the part where a couple of conservatives are quoted on Alito's strategy.

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Writing in the Weekly Standard, Terry Eastland, who served in the Justice Department during the Reagan administration, noted that "the views Alito stated in his 1985 essay were plainly and proudly his own, and for that reason they cannot so easily be set aside." Eastland added: "The better strategy for Alito is the more credible one of straightforwardly discussing the substance of what he wrote."

Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar who supports Alito and worked with him in the Reagan years, has been outspoken in questioning the conservative strategy of distancing Alito from his own writing. "This idea that all the folks in the Reagan administration were all apparatchiks who didn't believe what they were saying and writing is surreal," Fein told The Post. Over the weekend, Fein warned that "you end up losing more if your credibility is strained and people think you're playing them for dupes."
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Rick Zimmer
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It looks like Alito's nomination is not going to be the slam dunk that many thought it would be. Lots and lots of baggage there.

I expect he will get approved, after all the GOP does have the votes if they can hold the party together, which is not a sure thing in an election year and the party being headed by an increasingly unpopular President. This is not going to be the easy time that Roberts had.

This fight really is not what Bush or the GOP needs to start 2006 after a politically disastrous 2005. But it is the one he chose and they have to fight because he decided to nominate an extremist judge. It's going to be fun and interesting to watch.

I wonder if we will have a filibuster. I wonder if we'll see the GOP cut its own throat by doing away with the filibuster in judicial nominations.
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
He's using the Ginsburg strategy.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Nina
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QuirtEvans
Dec 6 2005, 04:52 AM
...or that he was saying what he thought would be well-received on a job application....

Seriously?

Wow, talk about an integrity killer. "I won't base my judgments on my interpretation of the Constitution--I'll base them on what I think will sell best with the current admnistration."
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Nina
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Jolly
Dec 6 2005, 09:39 AM
He's using the Ginsburg strategy.

Alan? :D :D
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Kincaid
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Just wondering how far Sen. Byrd is going to stay away from Alito.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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