Alito for President?
By Wally EdgeNew Jersey has not had a serious favorite son presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, but that could change in the future: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a West Caldwell resident, may want to seek a future Republican presidential nomination. That’s according to New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who says “that's what friends who don't want their names mentioned are telling other friends who are telling me the man wants.”
The last time a sitting Justice left the Supreme Court to run for President was Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. Hughes carried New Jersey in his race to oust Wilson.
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I'm not sure what Wally meant by "serious candidate" but I seem to recall Steve Forbes won one primary (Arizona?). Forbes and Alito were both contemporaries at Princeton and have remarkably similar personalities, at least as far as politics is concerned. I can't imagine either one of them slapping a back or working a room with any conviction. I will be even more astounded if Alito leaves the bench for politics than I will be if he casts a deciding (5-4) vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, and I think the latter is quite unlikely.
Samuel "Benito" Alito Lied His Way On To The Supreme Court
This partisan hack is supposed to be above politics; here he is a sitting SCOTUS "Justice" and he makes noises about running for president.
What a creepizoid quasi fascistic rat.
I pray he resigns from the court and is given the nomination this time out so we can be rid of him.
Of course, he won't really run; he's got a lifetime appointment and wouldn't dare give up his cushy and powerful chance to make right wing radical law. He's a Mussolini in black robes.
The America of Alito and Scalia would be one in which old Benito would feel fairly comfortable.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/roberts-alito/
From Frederick Douglass
Nick Lento, Someone spread a
Nick Lento,
Someone spread a rumor about Sam Alito -- unidentified friends allegedly (no conformation) told other friends, who then told a gossip columnist, that he wants to seek the Presidency. The gossip columnist then prints the unsubstantiated rumor -- and you conclude that as a result he is therefore a facist?
Wow!
Tell us Nick, what word would you use to describe a person who would take the thinnest, most unsupported rumor, and use that as a basis for launching a vile and hatemongering personal attack on someone?
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