Posted on 12/31/2015 11:28:34 AM PST by Isara
Two words and a letter, Rick — K Street Project.
And this is where “gay marriage” is an issue that marijuana never was.
Marriage was expected to be a social contract.
Now granted it really is a contract before God first and foremost, but society is being called in to witness unto it with our current system.
Society, which includes me and you, is being called to witness that “gay marriage” is marriage. Tilt, barf. I can’t. No court on earth could make it so.
Society is not being called to witness that marijuana is a wholesome thing to smoke any more than Dunkin Donuts is a wholesome diet. But we allow people to do both of those things.
(Toomey turned out not to be as conservative as hoped but was light years ahead of Specter).
I say as long as folks are being connoisseurs of icons (in this case the icon is “the conservative”) they’re going to miss a lot of actual issues.
It’s better to be half right about something than not right at all. The half right solution could be transformed more easily into the entirely right solution, than a course of paralysis in doing nothing.
That is a good question...wonder who is funding him?
The Constitution has not delivered up nonsense. Same sex "marriage" is an oxymoron. It is as absurd as pretending that people are "equal" other than in Court before the Law.
But marriage is a State concern--as are local school issues, Legislative Apportionment, rights to public relgious observances, etc..
Now the Federal Government can arrest the misuse of the Federal Courts, under Article III, by forbidding the Federal District Courts to take up cases that are really local concerns--thus arresting a whole host of abuses over the past two generations;--and at the same time limiting the Supreme Court's Appellate jurisdiction in the same manner. (The Original Jurisdiction is controlled by the Constitution; the Appellate Jurisdiction by Congress.)
Notice how nobody at all talks about Rick Santorum. Even Jeb! and Mike Huck get more media attention. I’ll bet you the average voter has forgotten that Santorum and Paul are even in the race. Dr. Carson is also about to flatline. Two of his biggest campaign advisers have quit the Carson campaign.
Blaming the Constitution for the bad actors who ignore it is like blaming the Bible because of those who refuse to follow it also.
The last time I saw campaign filings, Santorum had less than $1 million. IIRC, it was from a singular PAC.
Follow the money, as usual, yep.
Surely not Jeb...he's on the verge of having to clip coupons.
And this is what you get out of one dimensional analysis.
If we really like our iconic conservatives it would be well to press them to embrace everything that DOES mean something to larger America and for a good fundamental reason.
Not doing so is tempting liberals to eat your lunch.
He comes off as having a huge ego.
I’m sorry, the constitution was quite well heeded when it came to the selfish motives of rule by court. A loophole was perceived and it was taken.
Screaming against this is howling at the moon.
The edifice has no will; it cannot govern what happens when courses of action offer themselves that tend to different ends. The onus has to lie on the people to use it in a godly manner... notice I didn’t say constitutional, it having no will. I said godly.
Let’s put it this way, if the rules in your game of Monopoly said you could put eight hotels on Boardwalk and bankrupt everybody, wouldn’t you want to change those rules?
Not doing that, and doing the equivalent of enshrining the rules to reverence, would be quite foolish.
Santorum is not a theocrat and Cruz is going to fight for normal marriage. It is just that his fight is for states right to decide. The problem with that is the full faith and credit clause. Non legal states still must accommodate those who move to their state. Eventually it weakens all. Polygamy was banned nationally when the demand was made of Utah to eliminate it as a condition of joining the Union. The first Republican Platform sought to “ban the twin relics of slavery and polygamy.” So I am with Santorum and Huckabee on marriage. I won’t smear Cruz by saying he won’t fight for it. He will. He has just bought that a core social structure such as marriage is a state issue when only the peripheral legal issues should be state decided. Marriage is only important because it is the foundational structure of society into the future. Homosexuality is not equal to that: Never has been, never will be. Mom, Dad and baby, staying together as a family saves the government lots of money and effort. It promotes freedom because it keeps Mom and Dad as the primary authority for the children, passing on religious and moral values. Mandating no discrimination of all sexual perversions, calling them equal to “marriage” places the government at the head.
Cruz’s plan is better than nothing. It at last leaves we the people with some say.
I get tired of one camp distorting the positions of another camp in an effort to promote self. It shows bad character.
Mail.
“I’d vastly sooner have the marijuana.”
A joint, or take it up the wazzoo. That’s a tough one. I think ill have a toke.
Is Santorum running for an office, or is he a sideline analyst for 16?
Beyond that, he is a smarmy, backstabbing weasel (just ask Mr. Newt).
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