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Originally posted by bilmore
I have to wonder about this guy, and why Bush wants to expend so much political capital getting him in (unless the expenditure is more aimed at "don't fuck with me".)
I simply can't get good info on this guy - the two presses are so politicized, there's simply no good factual record I've found. I've seen him excoriated for saying the U.S. should be following the bible, but, at the same time, I see the hard-core christers are pissed at him 'cuz he fought to get Moore (the 10-commandments judge) dumped for disobeying the higher court. So, I have to wonder if our "news" system isn't so totally fucked that none of us operate, ever, on the same premises. Scary thought.
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Roy Moore (was that his name) was an unbelievable gift to Pryor, since it gave him someone even farther out there to contrast himself to.
With a lot of nominees, it's hard to learn just what they think. I heard a lot from a blog named Ignatz -- don't have a link now, sorry -- by a guy who has an appellate practice in the Eleventh Circuit and got to see positions taken by Pryor as an Attorney General. Even that sort of thing is sometimes hard to articulate.
And I don't think he's spending political capital on this. He pissing off Dems who aren't going to support him anyway, and it's red meat for his base in an election year.
