re: #489 HappyWarrior

Well it figures that individual rights would be a foreign concept to an asshole like Bork. Really as I said, Reagan either was a complete idiot and had no idea how extreme this guy was or they went with him anyhow. Obama’s not going to pick the left equivalent of Bork, hell he probably won’t given the Senate’s construction even pick an equivalent of Kagan or Sotoaymor but someone more close to Kennedy. But as I’ve said in the past regarding this, I feel strongly that this President understood the way the Constitution and law better than Ronald Reagan ever did.

You know, it’s interesting, I’ve read a lot of Reagan biographies (I’ve always found him fascinating as a historical figure) and I can’t recall any of them really discussing the Bork nomination. My guess is that Reagan either didn’t know the details of Bork’s peculiar jurisprudence and was relying on movement conservative types in the DOJ, or alternatively he did know and overplayed his hand thinking that his late term popularity would cause the Senate to backdown. But it is a topic that I think would be an interesting read.