Reply #31: helps the marketing department

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to sell the product

imo, it's all part of the marketing ... they're methodical in their madness ... this is a crowning moment ... they've 'think-tanked' the particulars leading up to this moment to the nth degree ... the product has been developed and packaged; and, now, is ready for roll-out ... the sell is on ... it's what they've been waiting and preparing for ... it's the Federalist Society's mission ... and, the corporate media is more than willing to help ...

The Republicans have been nominating to the Federal judiciary for 17 of the last 25 years; and, in the other 8 years have used their influence on the choices -- including blocking nominations during that period. So, even when not in the White House, they have shaped its make-up for 25 years. Yet, they continue the revolution "to reclaim the Federal courts from liberals", as if they haven't already.


from: "The Federalist Society -
The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American Law"

By Jerry Landay

~snip~

"The Society¹s mission is to advance a conservative agenda by moving the country¹s legal establishment to the right..."

~snip~

"As the Society grew in influence, it grew in wealth. A year after founding the first student chapters in 1982 at Yale and University of Chicago law schools, student leaders received $25,000 for their first national symposium, the seed money coming from the Institute for Educational Affairs, overseen by the influential neoconservatives William Simon and Irving Kristol. By 1998, the annual contribution total had soared a hundredfold to $2,600,000--a third from core conservative underwriters like the John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Lilly Endowment, whose sustained patronage has nurtured the tightly linked constellation of think tanks and advocacy groups that form the spine of the conservative movement."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.landay.html


with this background, it's best to pretend not to be a member or involved with The Federalist Society or its agenda (as in helping to 'steer' it)

... see, he's not as bad as they say, is he? :sarcasm: