It blows my mind that the lawyer that argued for Bush in Bush v. Gore...

[LynneSin]

was the same lawyer that help to overturn Prop 8 in California.

Perhaps Ted Olson has redeemed himself.

And knowing the right-wing nutjobs out there like the freeper morans, they've banished him from their circle of conservative heros even though Olson although from what I have read Olson's argument was deep with conservative values - meaning government butt out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He's gone a long way towards that, I think.

I could NOT be happier!

[BootinUp]

2. Some rich folks are gay?

Just trying to understand his cognitive dissidence.

[izquierdista]

3. Maybe his wife plowing into the Pentagon

Changed his mind about how wise that selection of Dubya was.

[zazen]

4. he lost his wife in 9/11, didn't he? sometimes tragedies can change our values

I don't know if that's why, but I always wondered.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Barbara Olson was on that plane only b/c she changed her original flight

so she could wake up with her husband on 9-11 to wish him a happy birthday.*

Tell me how you wouldn't be scarred for life, knowing that.

* For you cynics, I'll save you some key action. Here's the cite to show you Ted Olson's birthdate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson

[Kurovski]

8. She was on her way to be on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect."

He kept a chair empty in memoriam for a few days.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. I remember that.

[Historic NY]

6. PerhapsTed knows something about love...& love lost.

[spanone]

7. lawyers go where the money is most of the time...they are a service industry

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. Lawyers with good professional ethics set aside most of their other ethics at the courtroom door.

Which is as it should be - the whole point of an adversarial justice is that for two people in the room, "doing the right thing" is a matter of fighting their corner as hard as the law permits, rather than trying impartially to see justice done.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. As a libertarian this is perfectly consistent

and he will be a good man to have in front of the Supremes, since this is going all the way.

[Historic NY]

11. some owe him an apology..............

http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/05/gay-rights-groups-ted-olson-thanks-no-thanks

[LynneSin]

13. So seriously!

If he takes this to the Supreme Court and wins - he should become their Patron Saint!

[david13]

12. A good lawyer can argue either side of a case. A good lawyer

must consider each and every aspect of the argument for the other side of the case. It's an essential part of any preparation on a case, to know what the other side is going to say, argue, write, and put forth, and how we are going to rebut or refute that.
dc

[LynneSin]

14. A good lawyer will put his personal beliefs aside

For all we know this guy still might not like homosexuals. But his personal opinion doesn't make him the law. The law is the constitution and that's what Ted was representing.

[Dappleganger]

16. I've read and listened to his opinion on this matter.

He's convinced me that he believes in this cause and I don't think that he's doing it for the money. People like Olson do it for the challenge and how historical they think the ruling will be viewed later in history.

And yes, I do think that tragedy can change a person's values.

[LynneSin]

17. Olson is a true libertarian, something that teabaggers claim they are but don't get

Libertarians do not want their government interfering in their lives. But how can you be libertarian if you take away the civil rights of other law abiding citizens OR interfere with personal choices.

Ted Olson and what he has done today really highlights how the teabagger movement has absolutely NOTHING whatsoever with libertarianism else the freepers wouldn't be all in an uproar over Prop8 overturning. If they really truly supported libertarianism they would be damn grateful that once again the government was removed from another personal choice. The only thing teabaggers want their government out of is taxes and guns - outside of that they want the government meddling in all your other personal choices AND they want their SSN/Disability/Medicare handouts too.

[Kurovski]

18. +1

Good points, all.

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