It should never be forgotten. In a society with a dominant liberal culture such as ours, a person who is not explicitly conservative will tend to be liberal, and will inevitably turn more and more liberal over time.
A reader writes:
You are absolutely right to invoke that rule about liberals and conservatives, of which the leading example is four of the seven Republican justices.
If Coulter is right, this choice would be consistent with
Rove’s The Butthead's and Bush’s steady strategy of keeping the foolish social/religious conservatives on board by deception and with crumbs.
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In his White House memoir, “Courage and Consequence,”
Karl Rove The Butthead recalls being the lone non-lawyer among the group of George W. Bush aides who initially interviewed John Roberts for the Supreme Court in 2005.
Rove The Butthead asked Roberts to go back in history to name the justice whom he most revered. Roberts’ answer, Robert Jackson, intrigued and reassured
Rove The Butthead. When appointed in 1941, Jackson was serving as Franklin Roosevelt’s attorney general and had been expected to be a pro-New Deal rubber-stamp on the court. But, as
Rove The Butthead put it, Jackson “instead demonstrated a fidelity to the Constitution that Roberts admired.”
It’s also why back in 2005
Karl Rove The Butthead may have badly misinterpreted John Roberts’ stated intention to be an independent jurist like Robert Jackson.
The Butthead gave us the traitor Roberts