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Ever seen this ? “Welcome to Free Republic, America’s exclusive site for God, Family, Country, Life & Liberty conservatives!”

From the looks of things, Pal, I've been seeing it for seven more years than you have. While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court. I'm worried about someone who would veto anything a Republican Congress sent to him. I'm worried about more czars and recess appointments. I could go on.

ML/NJ

You have correctly identified the ‘real’ object of the exercise as removing the incumbent.

Getting there, however, requires a serious investment in ‘retail politics’ which seems to expose your tender sensibilities to various unpleasantness and unhappiness with the messiness of the process.

Man up, Dude ! Welcome to the ‘real world’ ...

‘Our guys’, as you so casually labelled ‘em, had better be able to ‘stand and deliver’ in the very messy process you so decry — what do you suppose they’re going to get from from the Donks come September and beyond ?

You can’t seriously expect they deserve some kid-gloves treatment from us or whoever — ‘If you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all !’ — and then expect ‘em to survive the kind of campaign the Donks will deliver.

Keep your eye on the prize — Dump Hussein Obama ! It may not be pretty but it’s the only system we’ve got to get the job done.

Complaining that FR somehow looks and sounds too much like ‘retail politics’ and that we should somehow ‘cool it’ and make nice is a remarkably lame political ‘strategery’ and / or point of view.

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21stCenturion

From the looks of things, Pal, I've been seeing it for seven more years than you have. While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court. I'm worried about someone who would veto anything a Republican Congress sent to him. I'm worried about more czars and recess appointments. I could go on.

Any time you choose to bring out the senority argument, you lose the argument.

It's petty and meaningless.

While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court.

You mean like these type of judges?

“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”

“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court.

Here is some of the critiria Romney used to select judges while Governor of Massachusetts:

Baldwin agreed, citing Romney’s statements about the two requirements he actually used when selecting judges.

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”

While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court.

More of the critiria Romney used to select judges while Governor of Massachusetts:

Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:

“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”

While you're worried about getting everything you want I'm worried about getting some more Sotomayors and Kagans on the Court.

More of the critiria Romney used to select judges while Governor of Massachusetts:

Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”

“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”