# Candidate for Chief Justice Roberts is no dummy. He's slick as a weasel! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617 "2005-09-14T16:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/1 "2005-09-14T16:45:52Z")
Floats likes a butterfly over the questioning. They can’t lay a glove on him. He’s pretty smart, might not be a bad Justice. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/2 "2005-09-14T17:05:49Z")
Ummm… He is a lawyer isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/3 "2005-09-14T17:46:59Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Ummm… > > He is a lawyer isn’t he? Yes, but so are the majority of the questioners. He’s sniffs the traps and glides past them. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/4 "2005-09-14T17:48:25Z")
Me too, but you ask me a tough question and I freeze like a deer caught in headlights wearing his mom’s dress. Roberts has years (uh, decades?) of experience answering questions on the fly from the smartest interrogatory neuftet on the planet. No Senator’s going to trip him up. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/5 "2005-09-14T18:08:34Z")
Someone needs to tell Joe Biden that you eventually have to stop talking for it to be considered a question! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/6 "2005-09-14T20:44:25Z")
Senator Biden, didn’t I hear that same question from Neil Kinnick? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/7 "2005-09-14T21:37:08Z")
Okay, I should not say this… … but I would totally do him. Gah! What a hottie!!! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candidate-for-chief-justice-roberts-is-no-dummy-hes-slick-as-a-weasel/321617/8 "2005-09-14T22:36:56Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.