Posted on 10/22/2008 4:28:46 PM PDT by Sun
Janice Rogers Brown!
John McCain picked CONSERVATIVE Governor Sarah Palin, which makes me think that he might tend to pick a woman (plus she's a minority) for SCOTUS judicial pick, and more importantly an ORIGINALIST justice.
The main thing we have to worry about, though, is that the Dems don't get a Supermajority in the U.S. Senate.
A good reason to vote for Republicans running in the U.S. Senate race!
"The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought."
"It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse - whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism - has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of our Constitution and the character of our people."
You have put trust in McCain he has not earned.
I hope he has the cajones to nominate her.
Woo-Hoo...She’s got the public educational system down pat!
(I know....I’m an educator.) ;-)
Janice Rogers Brown!
We need her here in California. Go find someone else :)
She’s already in DC, I think she’s on the appeals circuit for DC
Then I’m a day late to the party!
Let’s concentrate on winning it for McCain-Palin, as well as for strategic Senate seats (Coleman, Dole, Kennedy in LA) before we worry about who McCain is going to nominated for SCOTUS.
McCain has a tendency to carry a grudge and when he start looking back at how the leftists tried to skewer him during this campaign (including is former buddies in the media), he may actually start behaving like a Reagan conservative. At least we can hope.
Actually if Mcain pulls this out, the acrimony will be such that it will be vicious in DC.
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
SCOTUS has been the one pleasant surprise to GWB.
I love Judge Brown. She is an intellectual’s intellectual, having a razor sharp mind and the ability to re-write her clerks’ opinions so that they are incisive, clear, precise and devolve back to the underlying constitutional principles.
She woudl be a wonderful SCOTUS judge.
What reason do you have to think McCain would nominate her?
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If McCain did winn, and had the backbone to do it, he could just refuse to nominate anyone BUT the people he wants on (if they are conservative, I know, this is a hypothetical so bear with me), and if the Dems don’t play ball, then just leave the seats vacant.
She would make the libs go apoplectic. She has my support. In her speech to the Federalist Society she gave a few hints of her political leanings. She described private property as “the guardian of every other right” and libertarianism is known for its strong defense of property rights. Later on in her speech she described collectivism as “slavery to the tribe” and that government was a “leviathan [that] will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path.”
This is known as counting your chickens before they hatch.
I still believe the only reason he picked Gov. Palin was to shore up his relatinship with the conservative base in order to win the election.
Once he wins - and that appears to be a long shot at this point - what makes anyone believe he will exhibit a streak of true conservatism? I certainly don’t believe it.
I am a rabid McCain supporter at this point, but only because of the alternative.
She would be a good addition. However, I think McCain would start with his friends ... like Fred Thompson. Regardless of age.
If McCain becomes POTUS, expect him to go back to his old ways of reaching across the aisle to his friends in the other party to build a consensus. JRB is too conservative and would be difficult to confirm by the Senate. McCain will pick a Sandra Day Oconnor type.
LOL!
Barack Hussein Obama, says of his nominees, "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old and that's the criteria by which I'll be selecting my judges."
John McCain says of his nominees, "The duties and boundaries of the Constitution are not just a set of helpful suggestions. They are not just guidelines to be observed when it's convenient and loosely interpreted when it isn't. In federal and state courts there are still men and women who understand the proper role of our judiciary and I intend to find them and promote them. My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power."
McCain has fought for every conservative appointment to the high court, including Robert Bork.
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