NARAL anti-Roberts Nomination Advertisement

[Egalitariat]

Is this the first official volley? I can't recall seeing any ads yet.

I guess it's on. I can't wait to see who brings the fight.

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/about/newsroom/pressrelease/20050808_roberts_ad.cfm

[BlueStateModerate]

1. FactCheck disagrees with their ad

http://factcheck.org/article340.html

We can wish it were true all we want, but is seems that the facts disagree.

[still_one]

2. fatchicks.com says it is true

[Jim Sagle]

3. And Hedda Mydick says the skeptics are wrong.

[BlueStateModerate]

4. Good point.

:think:

[still_one]

5. glad to see you have a sense of humor

[Egalitariat]

6. I doubt a reputable organization like NARAL would run a misleading ad

Isn't factcheck.org a RW site?

[SuperWonk]

7. This is bogus...

Why are we wasting our resources on smear attempts like this??

Arrrhhh!!

[SuperWonk]

8. Kick...

[Igel]

9. Because it's likely to be an effective ad in furthering their

political and legal views.

They're an advocacy group, not an unbiased research institute. They have a Goal, they believe their Goal to be Just.

The distinction in arguing an abstract point of law because of the precedent it would set is lost of people for whom abstract thinking is pretty much unexplored territory, for whom most thinking revolves around the concrete. For those people, the only important point was "Bad guys weren't punished as much as they should have been, the good guys weren't given as many protections as they could have been."

Even worse, the bad guys thought the ruling in question was a victory, Roberts contributed to that victory, therefore Roberts is a bad guy. We'll leave the fact that it was actually SCOTUS that handed the bad guys their 'victory' (when they were going to jail, in any event) aside.

[SuperWonk]

10. That is true...

However, the goal they are trying to reach would have been much more well-served if it had been presented a truthful and accurate way.

Did they think that people would blindly believe what they are saying?

Not here... not anywhere.