Robert Bork would have been a great justice on the Supreme Court. He was alinskied by Ted Kennedy and a Progressive lynch mob that prevented him from being nominated. He died of heart complications this morning.
Judge Robert H. Bork, one of the the greatest jurists this country has ever produced, died early this morning from heart complications in a Virginia hospital near his home. He was 84.
Bork was a national celebrity. Several years ago, my wife and I visited the Borks in Maine where they had taken a summer house off Somes Sound. I cannot count the times that total strangers would approach us at a lobster shack or park asking to shake the Judge’s hand and to assure him of their admiration and support.
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The vicious campaign waged against Judge Bork set a new low—possibly never exceeded—in the exhibition of unbridled leftist venom, indeed hate. Reporters combed through the Borks trash hoping to find comprising tidbits; they inspected his movie rentals, and were disgusted to find the films of John Wayne liberally represented. So hysterical was the campaign against Judge Bork that a new transitive verb entered our political vocabulary: “To Bork,” scruple at nothing in order to discredit and defeat a political figure. Monsieur Guillotine gave his name to that means of execution; “progressives,” those leftists haters of America who have so disfigured our national life since the 1960s, gave us the this new form of character assassination. The so-called “Lion of the Senate,” Ted Kennedy, surely one of the most despicable men ever to hold high public office in the United States (yes, that’s saying something), stood on the Senate floor and emitted a serious of calumnious lies designed not simply to prevent Judge Bork from being appointed to the Supreme Court but to soil his character irretrievably.
The destruction of Robert Bork should have been a wake call to the Right. RIP Robert Bork.
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Here is a clip of the 1987 hearings… RIP Robert Bork. Imagine if he had gotten on the Court instead of Kennedy.
Robert Bork would have been a rotten Supreme Court justice. That being said, I hope he rests in peace.
@ theoutsider:
Can you explain why, please?
mskelly wrote:
Because he was one of those odd people who actually believed that the Constitution means what it says.
theoutsider wrote:
All you ever do is take pot shots with no explanation for your “reasoning” (and I use that word quite loosely). You’re utterly worthless and I’m breaking my own embargo on responding to you to deliver that news to you. Merry F**cking Christmas!
Politics is War. The Democrats know this. THey live it. The Republicans think it is still some kind of gentlemanly contest where it doesn’t really matter who wins. I don’t expect them to wake up until they are as marginalized as the Whigs.
Robert Bork was rejected but the unwise Latina (Sotomayor) was approved.
Via Powerline
theoutsider wrote:
care to enlighten us on your reasoning for that statement?
or, as i see, you just drop a comment meant to cause a response and run away. this tactic is getting old. buck up man and defend your reasoning!
@ 2 theoutsider: It’s just trolling if you have no substance. Reflect badly on you. A stronger foundation in visiting forums with opposite viewpoints comes from making a statement of your beliefs and backing them up. That you continually are afraid to do so basically means you are just here to throw AD Hominem around. Reminds me of Wild Irish Rose who piddled away her productivity with a negative obsession.