Posted: 7/22/2005 5:58:40 AM EDT
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Having only been in the US for 8 years I dont know much about what happened to Bork in the hearings although I do remember the Thomas hearings. Can someone shed some light on it for me. |
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Basically, Bork drove the liberals abso-fricken-lutely nuts, so much so that they derailed his confirmation process and kept him off the court. Thomas was Borked but managed to give'em all the finger and get to where he is today (he called it a "high tech lynching of an uppity black man" right on public TV). Kharn |
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bork was a strict constitutionalist and politically conservative. his credentials were impeccable. the dems went apeshit and dragged up or made up every scurrilous accusation they thought might make a mark and bork finally said "fuck this shit, i'm outta here." (paraphrasing) every person who knows bork professionally says he's a frigging legal genius, bar none. 
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Bork was a well qualified, if openly ideological, candidate for the Supreme Court, but the libs managed to generate enough hysteria that he was not confirmed. At the time, Congress was controlled by the Democrats. His views on the RKBA are not what they should be, but otherwise it is hard to argue with his judicial philosophy. Here is his opening statement. Senator Kennedy said that "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution."  What an ass. The lib activist groups went so far as to make public what movie videos Bork had rented.We ended up getting Justice Kennedy. 
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Robert Bork is a centrist and originalist when it comes to the Constitution. His position is that the Constitution means what it says, as interpreted according to the thoughts of those who wrote it. This was anathema to the left. Thus, began the "politics of personal destruction", a phrase ironically coined by liberals. They claimed that Bork would force women into back alley abortions, resulting in the deaths of untold thousands. They said he would set the civil rights movement back 40 years. Basically, they told shameless lies and exaggerations in a well orchestrated movement of character assassination. Now, to "Bork" somebody means to destroy them and their reputation through a smear campaign. |
What does Michael Jackson have to do with this? 
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It amuses and at the same time irritates to hear Lefties gab about the Constitution. Then when someboy like Bork comes along and shows them that the Constitution is indifferent or or stands in the way of their beautiful progressive society, they lose their minds. |