Alito is not conservative......

[sarettah]

He is just "compassion challenged"

Sounds like George W and company doesn't want the media calling Alito conservative. Hmmm. Wonder why they shy away from that

If you are gonna be a Nazi, at least be proud of it dammit


http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/new...s/13343330.htm

The Bush administration is mounting an aggressive effort to counter a Knight Ridder story that described Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a committed judicial conservative.

The administration's response - delivered separately Tuesday by the White House and the Justice Department - reflects its determination to defend Alito and its sensitivity to the "conservative" label for him.

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Administration officials said the story unfairly cast the Supreme Court nominee as a conservative ideologue.

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Brand, whose duties include shepherding judicial nominations through the Senate, rejected the conservative label for Alito.

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John Nowacki, senior counsel in the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs, also objected to the Knight Ridder analysis. In an e-mail to Henderson, Nowacki criticized attempts to discern a judicial philosophy by looking for trends in a judge's record. ( )
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The White House produced an opinion article defending Alito against the Knight Ridder analysis by lawyer Jeffrey Wasserstein, a Democrat who says he supported John Kerry in the last presidential election. Wasserstein, a former Alito clerk, said he was unaware of Alito's political leanings when he worked for the judge in 1997-98.

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But some of Alito's allies say he should embrace the conservative label because it fits.

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The response to the Knight Ridder analysis was the latest in a series of administration efforts to counter any suggestion that Alito would be a conservative activist on the Supreme Court.