ATTENTION All Princeton Grads - WE NEED YOU!

[shraby]

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 or (no offense) Armando is performing.

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

<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/15/10322/3288>

It's possible he lied on his application to work in the Reagan admin. and said he belonged to the organization and he really didn't.

[unblock]

1. i looked everywhere but couldn't find anything specific to alito

the thing is, if someone is a member of the neo-nazis or the kkk, do you really need a direct quote?

cap was founded on bigotted and discriminatory principals and its sole aim was to roll back advances in equality at princeton.
alito was a member for 14 years.

that's proof enough that he's a bigot, the burden should be on him to demonstrate a CLEAR renounciation of those views, just as senator byrd has made a very long history of overcoming his early kkk membership -- and still it comes back to haunt him.

[shraby]

3. The question is....was he really a member?

Arlen Specter said they got the records of the organization and went through all the papers and Alito's name wasn't on any of them. I would think there'd be a list of members in the boxes of records.
If he wasn't a member, that means he lied on an application for government employment.

[Algorem]

2. Former CAP official,now Weekly Stanturd publisher- "didn't help Alito"

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/01/13/news/14253.shtml

Eastland writes he had 'no part' in 1985 decision to hire Alito for Justice Department position

Chanakya Sethi
Princetonian Senior Writer

... But Eastland, who was the editor of CAP's highly controversial magazine, Prospect, before going on to serve in the Justice Department from 1983 to 1988, said that he "played no part in the decision."...


Former CAP board member Andrew Napolitano '72, now a Fox News analyst, said in an interview this week that "by telling Ed Meese he was in CAP, Sam Alito was telling the Justice Department he was a true-blue conservative."...

One of Alito's former roommates also suggested that Alito may have been trying to take advantage of a connection, noting that the mention of CAP seems out of place on a resume that discussed Alito's involvement with more prominent organizations, such as the Federalist Society, a group of conservative lawyers, and the National Review and the American Spectator, two national conservative publications...

It remains unclear whether there were any CAP officials besides Eastland serving at the Justice Department in 1985 when Alito applied for a job there, and whether any officials involved in the decision to hire Alito were familiar with the group...

[Algorem]

5. kick

[fooj]

4. We HAVE a smoking gun...it's the PNAC---

but NOBODY will even give it a whisper. Can't you HEAR the audible "gasps" had one of our democratic senators asked Alito "Are you familiar with the PNAC and, if so, do you subscribe to their beliefs?"

peace.