Reply #6: Mehlman understands one thing...

[punpirate]

... when he says "call talk radio...."

Get that mighty Wurlitzer cranked up now. Get Rush slobbering all over the guy, etc.

There won't be one thing said about his actual record, but the talking points are all there:

Judge Roberts is a highly qualified man

sterling judicial credentials.

He is fair-minded and compassionate

faithfully interpret the Constitution

not to legislate from the bench.

The real talking points:

He's been a judge for very little more than two years and his 2001 nomination for the DC court was stalled for two years in the Senate, in large part because of his refusal to answer questions relating to his record.

He's spent a considerable amount of his career doing highly partisan political work.

He's written briefs and opinions that indicate clearly that he is anti-environment, anti-choice (including the statement in an opinion that Roe v. Wade was "wrongly decided" even though that comment had no bearing on the case at hand) and less interested in civil rights than most other SC justices in recent decades.