Is Alito a Republican Ideologue?

The answer's easy: we don't know. The answers I saw him give were consistent with two different theories:

1. He's a very careful, procedure-oriented thinker

and

2. He's a conservative ideologue using carefully-crafted linguistic legerdemain.

If it's the former, then he's o.k. with me. I don't have a problem with smart, honest, objective conservatives. But, as I've already said many times, I don't interpret the words of this administration or its cronies charitably anymore. So if I had a vote here it'd be a somewhat reluctant 'no.'

Although I hope for 1, I'm expecting 2.