Thank you sweetie!
Posted on 07/17/2008 10:28:15 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The judiciary is becoming an important election issue. John McCain is warning conservatives that control of today's finely balanced Supreme Court depends on his election. Unfortunately, his jurisprudence is likely to be anything but conservative.
The idea of a "living Constitution" long has been popular on the political left. Conservatives routinely dismiss such result-oriented justice, denouncing "judicial activism" and proclaiming their fidelity to "original intent." However, many Republicans, like Mr. McCain, are just as result-oriented as their Democratic opponents. They only disagree over the result desired.
Judge-made rights are wrong because there is no constitutional warrant behind them. The Constitution leaves most decisions up to the normal political process.
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“Bob Barr, working hard to get Obama elected.”
BINGO! You hit the nail on the head.
I don’t need any particular reason not to vote for McCain. Just ain’t gonna do it.
Stop holding Obama up as a bogeyman to distract folks from the fact that McCain is just another Big Government neocon who frequently colludes with left-wing Democrats.
You have so little faith in your countrymen...it's disgusting.
“Seriously, let’s give the Dems this election. That way, they can have the courts for another generation, the Presidency, both Houses of Congress, a majority of the Governorships during a time of redistricting (2010) - well, basically just unfettered, unchecked power. Then, after owning the judges, massive gerrymandering, and instituting election “reforms,” we can have a permanently Liberal country! Wow!
That’ll teach those damn Republicans for nominating John McCain! Screw America and the future - We’re mad at John McCain and that’s what counts!”
BRAVO for your excellent post!
I don’t have one of those “Applause” pictures, or I would post it.
It appears that the "unprincipled Republican party-liners" are already here.
Thank you sweetie!
Fine, if Obama is elected, then don’t bitch about it and don’t beg me for money because Obama is promoting or implementing some left wing cause.
Well said.
I sure as hell don’t want the guy who said this - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046701/posts - nominating any judges.
Amnesty? Nice try. You dare compare anyone to McCain on Amnesty. Barr is a loser, I agree, but his record on immigration is a whole bunch better than McCains.
McCain was a POW. That’s the ONLY thing he has going for him that anyone can’t find a flip flop or liberal position on. And conservatives aren’t buying what he’s selling. Have you noticed?
Oh, hush. He's being a maverick, just like Juan.
“Stop holding Obama up as a bogeyman...”
He’s one hell of a bogeyman.
“... the fact that McCain is just another Big Government neocon...”
So is McCain.
“... so little faith in your countrymen...”
Our presidential nominees don’t exactly foster confidence.
It wasn't until Robert Bork that the process got nasty, courtesy of Teddy the Swimmer and his Democrat buds. The Republicans have usually done what the Constitution gave the Senate the right to do, as McCain did with Ginsburg and Breyer.
Supreme Court Justices are extremely important, because if we get more judicial activists, we'll only continue with the societal breakdown we've experienced over the last 35 years. The only way the liberals have been able to implement their agenda is through decisions of the Supreme Court. They knew that the voters wouldn't approve, and they couldn't get laws passed, so they took their issues up through the judicial system until they could get to the Supremes, where they knew they'd have symapathetic judges to rule in their favor, regardless of what the Constitution had to say, or not, on the matter.
Nope, sorry. I don’t base my votes on fear of another candidate. That’s how we ended up with McCain in the first place. First if was fear of Hillary, now Obama. If McCain should lose, which I doubt, the fearful idiots in the GOP will only have themselves to blame. My choices aren’t limited to Obama, McCain or even Barr. I don’t owe the Republican party my vote.
Me neither. But I owe my Country. That’s why I want to spare it Obama.
I really really care what Bob Barr has to say about anything.
1. Republican presidents nominate judges that are liberal and conservative. (see: Ronald Reagan's Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia or George H.W. Bush's David Souter and Clarence Thomas)
2. Democrat presidents ALWAYS nominate judges that are liberal (see: Bill Clinton's Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg and Stephen "let's decide our laws by imitating foreign countries" Breyer)
3. NOTHING in the Constitution prevents a firmly controlled Democrat congress and a President Hussein Obama from deciding to expand the size of the Supreme Court from 9 to 11 or 13 justices, then loading it with liberal hacks...thus nullifying the firm conservatives put on the court by President Bush 43.
After all these considerations, I will be voting for McCain. He isn't a guarantee of a more conservative court, but he IS necessary for one.
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