Some of Alito’s fans bleed blue

Partisanship is so rampant these days that whenever somebody dares to trample the red-blue line, it’s a treat. Like when Judge Samuel Alito’s thesis adviser at Princeton, professor emeritus Walter Murphy, praised the latest Supreme Court nominee by saying: “I confess surprise that a man so dreadfully intellectually and morally challenged as George W. Bush would want a person as intellectually gifted, independent and morally principled as Sam Alito on the bench.” On the same theme, check out this Los Angeles Times story about the high praise many left-leaning former colleagues and clerks of Alito have for him. Of course, all of the above may give his conservative champions some pause.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

One Comment

  1. Ed Friedemann
    Posted November 7, 2005 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    “I confess surprise that a man so dreadfully intellectually and morally challenged as George W. Bush would want a person as intellectually gifted, independent and morally principled as Sam Alito on the bench.”

    Bush doesn’t know the difference.