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Edgewater_Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-15-06 10:34 AM
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ATTENTION All Princeton Grads - WE NEED YOU!
I admit this is an almost pathetic stretch ... but we appear to be in a desperate situation. "Our" legislators have no spines. The media has crowned Alito (who will then proceed to crown Bush). The Republicans arrogantly strut, knowing that if Alito gets on the bench it's likely he can help them escape any kind of legal comeuppance of what they've done since 2001 under the dual fig leaves of "unitary theory" and the War on Terror -- making any Democratic '06 victories ultimately moot.

On a recent posting in DAILY KOS talking about trying to scrape up enough votes to make a filibuster viable, a Nebraskan posted claiming he was in Princeton during the 1980s and that Alito's claim that he doesn't remember being part of CAP is "not to be believed."

If that's true, and there are more of you out there that can confirm that, it's Hail Mary time -- and you're the deep backs.

Simply put, it now looks as if the only way the Dems will grow the cajones needed to fight for Alito is with an 11th-hour revelation of some sort that calls Alito's character into question. The most vulnerable area that this can happen is his clearly false claim he knew nothing about Concerned Alumni of Princeton, its goals, and its reasons for existence. Alito claims he joined but was never a participant in any of its vile activities. But, if what the poster on Armando's string is implying is correct, that's not true.

The key, then, is to get some kind of smoking gun -- witnesses who heard Alito at a CAP meeting, or representing CAP for some function, or notes of praise from Alito to CAP -- and get that thing onto the media. Probably starting here or in other blogs. Expose Alito as a liar, and maybe -- MAYBE -- that will convince people he doesn't deserve a Supreme Court seat enough that they'll fight to stop him.

The only way is to find an easy-to-understand lie, with clear evidence, expose it, and create a firestorm. Frankly, this looks more like a winning strategy than anything Reid is performing.

PRINCETON GRADS -- YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU. Comb your yearbooks, dig out your scrapbooks, pull out you old photos, NAIL ALITO.

Before it's too late.
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Chicago1 Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-15-06 01:14 PM
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1. A wonderful Idea. Please email this around to the Media & Others
I emailed this around to several media outlets. Spread the word everyone!!!!


START THE REVOLUTION!!!
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-15-06 03:17 PM
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2. Most will honor Princeton over their country. It's so sad. n/t
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