Posted on 11/04/2006 8:24:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
For weeks, commentators have speculated that significant numbers of conservatives, alienated by over-spending, the Iraq War, and other perceived GOP disappointments, will stay home on Election Day, giving one or both Houses of Congress to Democrats. But for those who care about reforming the Supreme Court, sitting this one out may soon look like a mistake of historic proportions.
For the past several weeks, there has been a rumor circulating among high-level officials in Washington, D.C., that a member of the U.S. Supreme Court has received grave medical news and will announce his or her retirement by year’s end. While such rumors are not unusual in the nation’s capital, this one comes from credible sources. Additionally, a less credible but still noteworthy post last week at the liberal Democratic Underground blog says, “Send your good vibes to Justice Stevens. I just got off the phone with a friend of his family and right now he is very ill and at 86 years old that is not good.”
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"sitting this one out may soon look like a mistake of historic proportions."
...and I know it's true, because I read it on the internet.
Even if this rumor isn't true, Stevens IS 86 and it's highly likely that he will either die or retire in the next couple of years.
What do you think a Dem Congress is going to do with President Bush' nominee? Does Bork has any meaning to you?
"Even if the rumor turns out to be unfounded, it is worth repeating because it crystallizes the reality that there will soon be another high court vacancy. Senators elected next Tuesday to six year terms will, assuredly, vote on the confirmation of at least one new Supreme Court justice before their term is out.
This week in Indiana, Montana, and Nevada, President Bush raised judges as a key reason to elect Republicans to the Senate. By all accounts, it has been and continues to be a favorite applause line among Republican crowds. Judicial confirmations were key to tight Senate races in 2002 and 2004. Conservatives should not forget the issue this Election Day, when the victory of a generation may be at last within their grasp. "
read it on DU
hmmmmm
so I guess Karl Rove really was indcited
bttt
And it would be just like the Stupid Party to make such a mistake. (And for the record, I already voted and I voted "R")
I would be surprised if there wasn't another vacancy in the next two years. Anyone who doesn't turn out to vote Republican for the Senate is nuts.
Two words should be all it takes to get GOP faithful to flock to the polls: Samuel Alito.
I still can't believe that someone dedicated to nominating judicial conservatives was elected in 2000 and 2004, and that we expanded a good solid Republican Senate over the last few years -- and that as a result we have a line-up like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.
If that doesn't convince us that God has had mercy on America, I don't know what would.
Amen.
I'm quite active in GOTV efforts and let me tell you, TONS of (R) people are voting. Nobody's buying the mind-control stuff, I guess our intolerant tinfoil is on too tight LOL.
From the unscientific sampling of what I see and hear, the GOP turnout may well exceed the normal mid-Presidential-term election!
Especially now that Jean Cherie has lit our fire!
Prayers UP.
Amen and HB2U, Freeper #1!
I think this whole "stay home on election day" is media driven. It's a left wing wet dream. I don't know anyone who'd give up everything they believe in and let the democrats win. A person would have to be suicidal to do something like that. It's just stupid and self defeating. Who's that dumb?
Sorry. No dice. I'm not accepting their fantasy.
If we don't keep the senate, it doesn't matter who retires. We won't get another Roberts or Alito.
VOTE
While this election is still important for control of the Senate, have no fear: Bush and Rove already have "Plan B" in hand if Stevens (or perhaps Ginsberg) retires within the next two years. They will nominate a conservative Hispanic or African-American female for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. In other words, they'll employ the same strategy that put Clarence Thomas on the court.
Can you picture Schumer hysterically opposing an intelligent, conservative Hispanic or African-American female? The FIRST Hispanic or African-American female to be named to the High Court?? He'd look like more of an ass than he already is. The vast majority of Americans would see that as a travesty, especially minorities. Sure, they'd try to assail the nominee as a turncoat, "Uncle Tom," or something of the sort, but if the nominee displays half the demeanor Justice Roberts or Alito did during their confirmation hearings, the attacks wouldn't stick and would indeed likely backfire on Schumer and his ilk.
That's my take. Bookmark this post if the Dems take the Senate on Tuesday and then a vacancy opens up on the High Court before 2008. Be that as it may, please prove my prediction completely irrelevant by electing Republicans on Tuesday. . .
The appointment of justices like Thomas, Scalia, Alito, and Roberts is the best thing we can do to preserve the Republic.
There is nothing which can prevent our voting to continue this process on Tuesday.
Certainly no further abomination or outrage by the execrable party of the Left or its handmaiden propaganda bordello.
The democrat party hands out tax dollars to the democrat base. That's what they do. That's all they do.
Now is not the time to give them any power. It just seems the American people would feel the same way. I can't, even when I try, see the democrats taking over. I just don't see it. It's too dangerous for both the democrat and Republican base to let that happen. In my opinion, it'll be the democrats sitting this one out. Not the Republicans.
Sitting at home and answering a poll is one thing. Actually voting is another.
You are exactly correct. I believe there's a good chance of two vacancies in the coming two years.
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