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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Not to be argumentative but come on. If you think Obama will be better for the country than McCain what you're drinking is a whole lot stronger than Kool-Aide. Obama is a full fledged socialist...perhaps even a marxist. Can you imagine the havock he can wreak upon this country with a compliant Congress? Give me a break.
I say vote for McCain and then fight him tooth and nail every time he gets out of line. I don't like him any more than you do but to say he'd be worse for the country than Obama is nonsense.
“So that pretty much means we can forget about a Chief Justice Roberts or a Justice Alito as long as Leahy and Kennedy are around? Oh wait. Leahy and Kennedy were around and we do have Justices Roberts and Alito.”
Can you be serious?
Do you know who had a majority in the Senate when Roberts and Alito were nominated and confirmed?
Do you know who holds a majority in the Senate now, and is expected to substantially increase that majority in November?
“Which in the end cleared the way for Roberts and Alito.”
Gang of 14 didn’t have a damn thing to do with Roberts Alito.
And Juan is a full fledged neocon. Either way, both of them are for more and Bigger Government.
McCain is as much a Socialist. That’s the problem I have supporting him. Even if I were to “vote for McCain and then fight him tooth and nail every time he gets out of line,” where would I get leverage? He has never listened to Conservatives before; he has gone out of his way to oppose and just plain irritate them at every step; there is no way he allows Conservativism to have a voice in his choices.
Bingo, the idea that a vote for McCain will result in a Scalia, Roberts or Alito is laughable.
Ain’t going to happen. Besides, Juan isn’t done praising Obama yet. Why think of stuff like this?
I may just end up voting for him. Especially if McCain picks a non-good VP and keeps pandering to the left and racist La Raza.
Did McCain vote for Bush in 2000?
“Why don’t you tell us, then, (a)who you will vote for, (b)why you will vote for them, and (c)who you suspect will win in November?”
a. Don’t know yet.
b. Not applicable; see answer “a”.
c. Obama, but it could be McCain.
“...McCain might do more damage with and a Dem. majority and a few old RINO pals than Obama would do with a Dem. majority and a determined Republican opposition.
You’re playing checkers and trying to jump the next man on the board. Others view it as chess, where a man is sacrificed to make bigger gains with later moves. The most recent era of Republican influence started in 1994 with mid-term elections after Clinton defeated GHWB. The same could happen again in 2010, after two years of seeing (again) how Dems. will act with the WH and Congress.
We have two horrible presidential nominees, and there will be a couple or more unsatisfactory years no matter who wins.”
WISE POST OF THE DAY!!
Not my fault if those in power can't read the very document that LIMITS that power.
You morons are the ones waving your tiny fists under our noses telling us to vote for your pet RINO.
One note? I suppose you approve of the RINO view that the Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper"?
"Grow the hell up" yourself retard.
Ain’t gonna slow the McCainiacs down one iota. Their Boy can do no wrong.
“McCain is as much a Socialist. That’s the problem I have supporting him. Even if I were to “vote for McCain and then fight him tooth and nail every time he gets out of line,” where would I get leverage? He has never listened to Conservatives before; he has gone out of his way to oppose and just plain irritate them at every step; there is no way he allows Conservativism to have a voice in his choices.”
A Conservative voting for McCain has much in common with a Jew voting for Hitler in the 30s.
All five Supreme Court Justices who voted for the Heller decision were appointed by Republicans. Five out of seven Republican appointed Justices voted for Heller. NONE of the Democrat appointed Justices voted for Heller.
I might not get what I want if McCain is elected, but I will most certainly NOT get what I want if B. Hussein is elected. To me, it is just as simple as that.
Wow. What an enlighted and intelligent response. A profanity and 2 personal attacks in one post...coming from the likes of you I’ll take that as an honor.
A man is not sacrificed in chess unless the gains to be made later are assured. It is not good chess to make an unjustified sacrifice.
It would be a disaster of generational proportions to elect Obama and allow him to replace any of Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, or Alito. And a replacement of Kennedy could cause a reversal of Heller the next time a gun case comes before the Court.
George W. Bush did not nominate candidates for the Supreme Court without guidance from many quarters. It was not an accident that we ended up with Roberts and Alito. There is no reason to believe that WE will do any different should McCain have to nominate Supreme Court Justices.
“There is no reason to believe that WE will do any different should McCain have to nominate Supreme Court Justices.”
lol
dream on
Need I even say it? About John McCain?
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