The only good Conservative is an impartial one

Why does the media only ever applaud Conservatives who are impartial? Liberals are allowed to be as partisan as they want. But the only good Conservative is an impartial one, unless one counts complete turncoats like John McCain or the 7 Republican members of the 14 dealmakers in the Senate.

No surprise the media already has stories out like this: Rehnquist Won Plaudits for Impartiality---

WASHINGTON - William H. Rehnquist was a betting man — wagering on everything from sports to the outcome of presidential elections — and he would have known that the odds were against one man playing back-to-back roles in two of the nation's most engrossing political dramas.

That's just what the chief justice, who died Saturday, did when he presided over a presidential impeachment trial in 1999 and the Bush v. Gore case that sealed President Bush's White House victory a year later.

In his 33-year Supreme Court career, Rehnquist tangled with presidential politics several times going back to Watergate.

President Nixon picked Rehnquist for the court largely on the strength of his Republican political credentials, and the justice remained an enthusiastic conservative through his years on the bench.

Rehnquist won plaudits from right and left, however, for his evenhanded, by-the-book role overseeing President Clinton's Senate impeachment proceedings, a job he did with evident distaste. He seemed relieved when the trial ended in February 1999, and unconcerned by the result: "Not guilty as charged."

"I leave you now a wiser, but not a sadder, man," Rehnquist told senators shortly after announcing the verdict against Clinton, a Democrat whose views on matters as diverse as abortion and environmental protection were far from his own.

Of course, they mustn't forget to note that the Senate acquitted Bill Clinton. Somehow, though, they always forget that the House of Representatives did impeach him.