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question everything Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 01:27 PM
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More on McCain and Alito
More on McCain and Alito

by James Oliphant

As we await the State of the Union, here's an update on this morning's imbroglio involving Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund and his report that Sen. John McCain has told "conservatives" that he would support Supreme Court nominees in the mold of John Roberts, but not Samuel Alito. Conservative bloggers immediately erupted with predictable outrage at the Arizona senator.

The National Review's Byron York caught up with McCain in Orlando today to ask him about Fund's report. Here's what he said:

"Let me just look you in the eye. I've said a thousand times on this campaign trail, I've said as often as I can, that I want to find clones of Alito and Roberts. I worked as hard as anybody to get them confirmed. I look you in the eye and tell you I've said a thousand times that I wanted Alito and Roberts. I have told anybody who will listen. I flat-out tell you I will have people as close to Roberts and Alito , and I am proud of my record of working to get them confirmed, and people who worked to get them confirmed will tell you how hard I worked."

McCain suggested that the report was perhaps a dirty trick on the eve of the Florida primary. "It's distressing," he told York, "on the day before a primary that something like this should come up, because one, it's distracting, and two, I have done nothing but support these people."

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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/more_on_mccain_and_alito.html


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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 01:44 PM
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1. McCain Supports CLONING!!
Death to McCain, he hates the unborn!! Where can I as a righteously outraged conservative fundie zealot go to protest McCain's continual ability to breath? ;-)


From the Interview
"I've said as often as I can, that I want to find clones of Alito and Roberts."
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 02:49 PM
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2. Alito is so mis-under-appreciated
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