Alito-watch, Day 3: some more about the kid

Yesterday I speculated that perhaps Samuel Alito's kids had liberal tendencies, which could soften the judge's hard-edged views.

No dice. Via Law Dork, via Underneath Their Robes, today we learned that Phil Alito wrote some right-wing op-eds for a college publication:

[Bush has] stimulated commerce by cutting taxes for small businesses, and he's defended the role of faith in American society by challenging Roe v. Wade, limiting government funding of stem cell research, and supporting a Constitutional amendment defining marriage between a man and a woman. The list could go on and on. This represents the starkest difference between Bush and Kerry: while Bush is an eager defender of these American traits, Kerry, despite his rhetoric, is unwilling to defend these integral characteristics of American society.

I'm tempted to point out that not only is this lame propaganda, it's poorly written and unoriginal. Then I remember that I wrote shitty columns in college, and that I was a Republican then. Now I'm a Marxist. I won't be too hard on the dude. Give him a few Long Island ice teas, a pack of Marlboro lights, and The Humpty Dance -- he'll be voting Nader before he knows what hit him.

In the interim, ladies, if a 19-year-old sophomore has his druthers, no abortion for you.

Good news for the gays, though. While a Princeton student in the 1970s, Alito wrote about the importance of the right to privacy, and helped author a task force report declaring that discrimination against gays should be illegal.

Will Judge Alito become a sodomite hero? Or are those days behind him? Will the right wing eviscerate him? Will his know-it-all son disavow him as un-American? And what's up with Santorum wanting a threesome with Don Imus's wife?

These are the days of our mutha-effin' lives.