SUDDEN SAMBA

SUDDEN SAM suddenly not "conservative.”  Alito follows Harriet Miers who was not conservative enough. Another lesson for the school kids that either words no longer have meaning . . . or the apocalypse is at hand.  In a world where Republicans regularly peg Democrats as radical, far left “liberals,” the White House does the sudden samba.
The man who never met a law man he didn’t like or a defendant he did, Sam Alito is “mainstream.”

"Although Alito's opinions are rarely written with obvious ideology, he's seldom sided with a criminal defendant, a foreign national facing deportation, an employee alleging discrimination or consumers suing big business," reporters Stephen Henderson and Howard Mintz wrote.
The reporters also concluded that Alito "rarely supports individual rights," shows "a strong deference to police authority" and is extremely skeptical about claims of racial discrimination. Henderson covers the Supreme Court for Knight Ridder. Mintz, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, a Knight Ridder paper, worked on the Alito project during a stint in Washington.
Administration officials said the story unfairly cast the Supreme Court nominee as a conservative ideologue.
"His 15-year record on the 3rd Circuit shows him to be a mainstream, fair, thorough judge," Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand said in a C-SPAN interview devoted to her critique of the Knight Ridder analysis.

“CONSERVATIVE” IS NOW BAD NEWS according to conservatives themselves. Witness now the elaborate steps in a dance of the damned. Sam Alito suddenly is not conservative at all. Yeah, right. Or not right.