Judge Alito's Amazon reviews

We are beginning to learn more about Judge Samuel Alito, our Leader's nominee of the weak week to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. During his fifteen years on the bench Judge Alito has authored a number of controversial opinions... but even more illuminating, he is also apparently an avid reader who has authored hundreds of customer reviews on Amazon.com.

Don't bother looking for Alito's reviews -- hours after his nomination was announced they were mysteriously deleted from Amazon's system. But HorsesAss.org has managed to obtain the following copy, scraped off a backup disk by an alert Amazon technician:

6 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

A cautionary tale... , June 8, 2003
Reviewer: Sam Alito (Philly, PA)
The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood

THE HANDMAID'S TALE is a jarring look at a not too distant future where sterility is the norm, yet some fertile women still refuse to willingly submit to the absolute control of their patriarch. Margaret Atwood's tale of feminism gone awry, follows the self-inflicted travails of Offred, a vessel of God who refuses to fully reject her liberal indoctrination, even when offered a life of privilege in the idealized nation of Gilead.

Other reviewers have drawn parallels to current events -- the rise of the religious right, media consolidation, 9/11 and the suspension of basic rights in its aftermath -- to suggest that the United States may be on a path towards becoming a theocratic nation like that imagined in the novel. But I reject their optimism, and strongly believe that this nation of laws will remain firmly grounded in its liberal democratic roots... unless we manage to establish a stridently active, conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hmm. Personally, I didn't read the book that way. I wonder if this tells us anything about Judge Alito's judicial philosophy?