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Kavanaugh Remains SCOTUS Front-runner Despite Right-Wing Backlash (Paul won’t support)
NYMAG ^ | July 5, 2018 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 07/09/2018 6:34:59 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: NKP_Vet
This is Paul Mirengoff, house lefty at the otherwise conservative Powerline Blog:

Kavanaugh is well-known in D.C. legal circles. There’s wide agreement among the people I know who know him that, in terms of judicial philosophy and temperament, he falls somewhere between Chief Justice Roberts and the late Justice Scalia. Some say he’s closer to Roberts. Others say he’s closer to Scalia.

So we got a collegial guy, a Yaley, a "people I know" kind of man, a friend of Kagan and the Bushes, and one that can't be described as close to either Scalia nor to Roberts.

We could have just kept Kennedy.

61 posted on 07/10/2018 6:12:12 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Steve Van Doorn
I assumed what was wrong was that the content (i.e. the reality of what was happening) triggered the joeflakes (Stalin), and they decided to flag it as offensive. I'm not sure it was YouTube's review, just that the 'community' had flagged it offensive.

Or possible it was just a random wrongly marked link.

62 posted on 07/10/2018 6:12:14 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: MNJohnnie

That’s good, but his views on NSA spying on US are not.


63 posted on 07/10/2018 6:18:36 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Republicans always do this. They punt. They have no fight in them. Barrett was the pro lifer his base wanted but he was talked out of it by the
establishment. If you have to fight, fight for the one you want. Kavanaugh’s long ties to Bush might sink him. Trump could have done so much better.
I could care less what democrats say about him, it’s his own opinions he wrote. He’s not a committed pro lifer and defender of religious liberty. He was educated by liberal Jesuits. Terrible pick.


64 posted on 07/10/2018 6:42:18 AM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: ameribbean expat
Trump going for a Bushie is a sign of consolidating power, and also extending an olive branch to the Bush wing of the party.

You are of course absolutely correct. This was a backroom deal. The Bush wing was consulted and knew it was coming. It was interesting that GW sent out his approval letter almost before Kavanaugh had finished his acceptance speech. These days it takes GW 3 days to figure out where to...

No matter who President Trump nominated the Democrats were going to scream like hell and do their best to drag this thing out to make sure that it is a midterm issue. But this nominee was a compromise and the Demwits know it. President Trump has good instincts and picked someone with a long track record that longtime DC Republicans would line up behind and Democrat swamp creatures would put up a mostly a show fight against.

So let the character assassination begin...

65 posted on 07/10/2018 8:15:47 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: 11th_VA

another bullshit article that dozens of hysterical FReepers are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth about ... Ron Paul has publicly stated he has an open mind about Kavanuagh ...


66 posted on 07/10/2018 8:48:52 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: centurion316
"Rand is a guy who annoys more people every day. Eventually, he will end up as a lonely man shouting at the wind."


67 posted on 07/10/2018 10:05:15 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: 11th_VA

Paul won’t support anything that he didn’t come up with.

Just a little boy threatening to take his ball and go home if he doesn’t get his way.


68 posted on 07/10/2018 10:13:09 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Washinton DC, District of Corruption proven daily)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
That’s good, but his views on NSA spying on US are not.

I agree. However, where do the other SCOTUS candidates and justices stand on this? Is it possible that Kavenaugh is no worse than the others?

I wish Rand Paul, instead of Burr, could question him in the judiciary committee.

69 posted on 07/10/2018 10:15:27 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: tinyowl

Thanks


70 posted on 07/10/2018 11:29:36 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: JayAr36
Paul won’t support anything that he didn’t come up with

Some guys just need a good beating now and then...oh...wait..

lol

71 posted on 07/10/2018 11:31:43 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: 11th_VA

Now don’t know what to think. Is Kavanaugh pro-abortion or not? Too unclear. What specifically is Rand’s problem? I think this needs to be carefully fleshed out. He did support the Healthcare tax.


72 posted on 07/10/2018 2:23:28 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ducttape45

What is Rand is saving us from a pro-NSA spying, pro-abortion candidate?


73 posted on 07/10/2018 2:24:08 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: txrefugee

Yikes. Sounds like a deep stater.


74 posted on 07/10/2018 2:25:31 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: VOR78

He might get tackled again when he returns home if he sends this nominee down the drain.


75 posted on 07/10/2018 5:15:26 PM PDT by damper99
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To: damper99

Watch out he was trained, high school, by Jesuits. A militant left wing religious group. Why am I sure. High school and college. Beware! The Jesuit Pope is doing a fine job. Not.


76 posted on 07/10/2018 7:00:55 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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