For those of you who were around, do you miss this guy?

Twelve years ago I would have said yes, I miss him. But when Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas decided to grant a certain Republican's request to stop trying to count all of the ballots, I was too devastated to continue admiring the man in that video.

On July 1, 1987, Reagan announced that he was nominating Judge Robert Bork for a seat on the US Supreme Court. In the announcement, he said "Judge Bork, widely regarded as the most prominent and intellectually powerful advocate of judicial restraint, shares my view that judges' personal preferences and values should not be part of their constitutional interpretations. The guiding principle of judicial restraint recognizes that under the Constitution it is the exclusive province of the legislatures to enact laws and the role of the courts to interpret them."

And GWB said those same ideas were going to guide him, too, in choosing who to nominate to the Court. But when GWB asked for that injunction to stop the recounts in Florida, and when I thought through all of the possible "constitutional" reasoning that would support that request, I KNEW that GWB doesn't really understand the concept of "judicial restraint." And when Reagan's appointees to the Court granted GWB's request for that injunction, I knew as well that those appointees didn't really believe in the concept either.

Ah, the times when we actually had a real leader instead of the moron we have now.

One of his better jokes was about the woman who was getting married for the fourth time but was still a virgin. When asked how that was possible, she explained that her first husband died of a heart attack on their wedding night. The second time, she and her husband had a fight at the wedding and never consummated it. Her third husband was a Democrat, and all he did was sit at the end of the bed for four years and tell her how good it was going to be.

Nope...ronnie's cut n run in beirut after he got our Marines murdered was sad, and his involvement in "iran/contra" was treason.

Like a wart!

I almost forget republicans use to be half decent

Yes. I fear we will never have the honor and privilege of having another like him.

Hell fuking no!!!!...He's the one who started the American debacle...