Posted on 07/02/2005 4:06:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The only quota should be; are they a strict constitutionalist contructionist or not? If not,... NEXT candidate poo-leeze!
Excellent post.
It's interesting that the liberal media has spent the last 25 years referring to Justice O'Connor as "the conservative Supreme Court Justice," while conservatives said that she was a liberal or a moderate at best.
Now that she's out, the liberals are reversing themselves and say that she should be replaced with a moderate because she was a moderate.
Don't expect to see much back bone in the Republicans, except the ones who are traitors like McCain and his ilk. Boy they hold on like super glue, as long as the Dems have them paraded on the network news every night they'd betray their own mothers.
Indeed...and you're being nice about it; I could think of a lot harsher.
Why in the world should Pres. Bush nominate a "moderate" when Bill Clinton gave us Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an ACLU lawyer, and David Breyer, both of whom have voted liberal on every issue tried before them? If Bill Clinton gave the court two liberals, then it's only fair that W gives his voters two conservatives, REAL conservatives.
The squishy "moderate conservatives" always become liberal as they age. There has never been a liberal appointed who has become more conservative over time.
That's was a great point you made about moderates only turning more liberal with age. Did you know that Ginsberg also sailed through the process with a vote of, I think 92 to NOTHING? I don't think there one vote against her. And coming from the ACLU is about as liberal as it gets. I wonder if we'll get the same treatment when president Bush appoints a conservative? HHhmmmm
True enough, but I think Sowell is 72 now.
Funny, but true. I had that opinion from the beginning. Nice to have my view now confirmed by the astute and distinguished Thomas Sowell........and also by you, peeweesmid!
Thanks for the comment!
Char :)
Exactly, Kitty.......and I like the way in which Sowell "dissects" Anthony Kennedy with regard to the sad "transformation" which happens with weak "moderate" conservatives.
I have my fingers crossed that George W. Bush isn't going to make another "Anthony Kennedy" mistake in a possible effort to appease the vocal leftists on the Hill.
Char :)
How about Sowell as the nominee?
Sowell may be a bit old for appointment, but he probably knows some very good, very conservative candidates
All court appointments are political and always have been. Just look at Washington's appointments--all supporters of the new Constitution.
Great idea!
Good article, as usual! However, O'Connor did go out on a high note (her eloquent dissent in Kobe).
That said, I bet Bush is going to "have to" nominate a woman for her seat. This is not the way it should be, but it's certainly something the Dems are going to jump on if he doesn't. Fortunately, there are a number of good women (Brown or Owen, anybody?) who are serious conservatives and would be fantastic on the SC.
That's right. President Bush is fortunate that he has at least 2 (and no doubt more) eminently qualified women to appoint. I'm not sure that that was the case (or the reasoning) when Reagan put O'Connor on the high court. I simply can not believe that this particular woman was "the best and the brightest" at that time. Not possible.
Thanks for your comment.....incidentally, the case was "Kelo," not "Kobe!"
Char :)
Someone with a brain would be good - a non-lawyer such as Charles Krauthammer. Someone who does not think European public opinion, or American public opinion, should be the basis for court decisions. Someone who recognizes that a baby in the womb is a person. Someone who would not order you to sell your property to someone else to build a shopping center or hotel, thereby increasing tax revenues. Someone who recognizes that terrorists are killers, not citizens. Someone who questions the whole idea of taking my money in order to give it to someone else.
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