Posted on 01/02/2012 6:50:14 PM PST by EveningStar
In case you were planning to sit this one out...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 78 years old
Antonin Scalia - 75 years old
Anthony Kennedy - 75 years old
Stephen Breyer - 73 years old
Clarence Thomas - 63 years old
Samuel Alito - 61 years old
Sonia Sotomayor - 57 years old
John Roberts - 56 years old
Elena Kagan - 51 years old
And of course there are unknown factors not related to age.
Maybe you’re right about Romney. I don’t hate him like the others here do, but I don’t trust him either. He’s too slick for my taste.
However, the primaries aren’t over yet. In fact, they haven’t even begun. Someone else might win, you know.
Candidates select themselves. They run under the label of a political party, but the individual candidates decide whether or not to run for office. No political party makes these choices. People who want to be candidates pay their own filing fees. They put campaign organizations together and do the campaigning. It isn't a political party up there on the stage during debates, but individuals who have chosen to take a shot at a nomination.
Every election, a whole array of potential candidates decide for themselves whether or not to run, and voters invariably feel limited when their favorites decline to run.
As for your claim of "scaremongering," facts are facts and people can decide for themselves if those facts are scary or not.
Time and time and time again, the political Right comes oh-so-close to reaching its key goals (such as a conservative majority on the Supreme Court), only to kill its own chances because it forms circular firing squads instead of focusing like a laser on the real enemy. The coming election will be no different.
Of course I’m right about Romney, FR is pretty much in agreement about him, and of course I “hate” no one.
We just all need to keep fighting against that traitorous chameleon. All of us do.
You can help too.
Oh yeah, really smart. That's why we have President McCain and Vice President Palin today. Oh wait...
That's why we have candidate Palin today...oh
Nevermind.
Correct, everyone needs to write in Sarah Palin’s name come November :)
Oh you poor baby.
Let's at least be honest here. FR is, as you put it, pretty much in agreement about Romney because no other opinions about him are permitted here. What that means, of course, is we can't use FR's prevailing viewpoint as a measure of the electorate-at-large's viewpoint. Only the early primaries will tell the tale.
What I wonder is why very conservative candidates like Bachmann and Santorum aren't getting more support here. I believe the answer is because most FReepers wanted Palin and no one measures up to her in their eyes. Just my opinion.
You know any conservatives picked by Dems?
Even a Kennedy or O'Connor would be a vast improvement over a Ginsberg or Kagan.
Romney, who I loath, would be a earthshaking improvement over Obama.
No. The “poor babies” are the little ones that none of these people will protect.
A question came up today, and I thought of you.
Should the pro-life politicians have voted against the ban on Partial Birth Abortion, because it allowed abortions which were not partial-birth?
Sound like we need that ‘Earthquake’ LOL
The plumb line for any legislation, to stay within the scope of the oath of office, should be whether or not it provides equal protection for the unalienable right to life of all persons.
To be honest, we can know that the conservatives at freerepublic are mostly on the same page when it comes to the unacceptability of the anti-conservative Mitt Romney.
James C. McReynolds was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Wilson--a Dem--in 1914. McReynolds sided with the Constitution over the New Deal in the Schechter case (1935), which voided the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, our experiment with fascism, and was a persistent opponent of New Deal legislation even after Republican appointees to the Court began to cave in to pressure from the Roosevelt administration.
NOTHING matters but repealing Obamacare. 4 more years of Obama means that Obamacare will be entrenched and impossible to overturn when he leaves his 2nd term. NOTHING else matters. Yes, the SCOTUS is a big reason to hold your nose and vote GOPRINO, but even that pales to overturning Obamacare, exept to the extent that SCOTUS rules on Obamacare. But if Obama gets 4 more years, that is a moot point. Not only will he stack the court with more communists like Dike Kagan and Sorta-my-whore, but Obamacare will stand with his veto.
NOTHING MATTERS BUT REPEALING OBAMACARE and that should guide our voting this election. NOTHING ELSE. I don’t want to live in a communist nation.
On a different note, this is why I am terrified of a GOPRINO.
I am assuming Obama is gone because I believe he will lose to the economy no matter who the GOP run.
A conservative like Palin would have replaced these libs with stout conservatives. What will Romney give us? Liberals. What will Gingrich give us? Environmentalists.
This is the tragedy of the GOP establishment shoving RINOs down our throats. They are suicidal and more and more people are willing to pull the trigger by voting 3rd party.
Bump! We MUST GET RID OF OBAMA!
This man has brought the country and the world to the brink of ruination in 3 short years. We CANNOT let him have an additional 4 in which to do damage.
He hates America, he hates Americans, he has GOT TO GO!
Speak for yourself...I will vote for Mitt _IF_ he is the nominee.
If Santorum, Perry, Gingrich, Bachmann and even Paul, AND EVEN HUNTSMAN, are not pro life enough to get your vote given the status quo then there is no hope for the little ones.
Even if it came to Romney v Zero I'd still vote for Romney because there is a better than even chance he won't put a baby-hating zealot on the court unlike Zero, and the pro-lifers in Congress might be able to twist his arm enough to cut off funding to the pro-aborts.
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