Pittsburgh born Robert Bork was one of the finest jurists of his generation. He was an originalist in that he believed that words should be interpreted as the writer(s) of those words intended them. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1987 and treated viciously in his nomination hearings by a culture that interprets other's words as it sees fit. Justice Anthony Kennedy eventually filled the empty seat on our Supreme Court. The most famous attack on Judge Bork came from Ted Kennedy and here is part of what he accused Robert Bork of in those hearings..."Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizen's doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is...." None of this was true but it didn't matter for this was....and is....politics. As Robert Bork was enduring character assassination his wife passed Ted Kennedy in a Capitol hallway, one written account had the Senator say to her "Mrs. Bork, you must be so tired. It's a difficult time, I know. I hope you understand it's nothing personal."
The following are portions of an earlier post and relevant to the above:
Usually, when I go four or five days without a new post it's because I have been down with something and such was the case again this time. There was a blessing though, as there also usually is, in that I could just lay there and listen to most of Senator Ted Cruz's 21 hour and 19 minute speech, or filibuster if you will, to Senate seats...and to America. It was not only American history being written, it was one of the great oratorical stands in our history, a history with the likes of Patrick Henry.
I don't know if we have time to right this ship of state. If I were to guess it would be that we do not, that our presumption upon God's longsuffering with our rebellion has long since reached its limit, for His judgments upon us have already started, the greatest being that more often than not we cannot even distinguish good from evil nor right from wrong let alone choose between the two........To those of you outside of the United States, and there are quite a few who visit this blog, you are witnessing from afar somewhat of a second American Revolution, the rebels being.... freedom and liberty loving Americans with a reverential fear of Almighty God, needing only the heat of the cauldron turned up for the dross of our past sins to rise to the top leaving us dripping in the sweat of pure humility so that we might more fully seek mercy as a nation and forgiveness as individuals. Whether we rise or fall, the hold of the Republican Establishment Class is broken and though when all is said and done that they may win here, there will someday be, should God will it, another crossing of the Delaware, and they and their political consultant class of mercenaries will lose that hold that stifles participation in our republic and fails to defend or even warn.
The censure, ridicule and recriminations towards Senator Cruz continue but the spell is broken. The more that they lambast good men and women...the louder and clearer they make it evident to Americans that it was they themselves that failed time and again.... over decades, and that they have long since sold their birthright for a mess of pottage. They can cut the legs out from men like Ted Cruz but will see that he still towers over them on his knees, and they can belittle us from their bully pulpits but may find that Oliver Cromwell's words ring true even today "I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else."
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Political Thought and the Christian
