Alito

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

This is making a clear judgement on Miers for her actions, her policies. To me this says: She wasn't radically conservative enough for us. Withdraw her.

Of course there are groups who say that. Ever heard of planned parenthood? They go a little bit in the other direction - as in don't bother nominating anyone who isn't fully for abortion on demand. Can you imagine if Clinton had nominated a pro-lifer?

He was with Frist (who has problems of his own) and it was clearly a photo-op. He's exploiting the body of a dead woman for positive press.

Yawn. Like I said, no matter what was done he'd be criticized for it. It has no bearing on the man himself.

And what does Alito care about civil rights anyway?

Funny. I'll again go through my favorite confirmation hearing story ever. Ginsburg being questioned by Hatch. Hatch descirbes an employer with 30 employees, all of whom were white. He asked her if that employer could be considered as racially discriminatory under the law. She said yes. He pointed out that this was the exact employment situation of her staff. Was Ginsburg a racist? I doubt it. I would suspect that Alito isn't either.