I thought a virtue of conservatives was our realism. "We" dont have a majority, when there are 6-7 RINOs and 48 Liberal Democrats. "We" conservatives are still a minority in the House and Senate. Sure we have a republican majority, but we dont have a conservative majority. So we could have hoped for a change, and we got it on some issues, but not on CFR, where the RINO+LiberalSocialistDemocrat coalition won.
Bush hoped to defuse an issue and have the USSC bail him out. Bad move.
We need to be nominating only Scalia-type conservatives and not RINO/moderate judges that end up confirming liberal precedents. What is true of the courts is also true of our political primaries.
Agreed 100 percent. My point was to ridicule the rallying cry used back in 2002 about 'winning back the Senate'. There's no use in winning anything with a bunch of scrubs even LBJ wouldn't consider conservative.
We need to be nominating only Scalia-type conservatives and not RINO/moderate judges that end up confirming liberal precedents
Unfortunately I don't see that happening. As far as the Republican party has moved to the left, I imagine they would have problems even within the Republican party on confirming another Scalia-type Justice
And the reality is, Bush has behaved like a Ted Kennedy-liberal on CFR and the Medicare prescription entitlement.
He has demonstrated that 1) he doesn't want the votes of conservative Republicans such as myself, and 2) he doesn't need our votes. He has looked at the upcoming election and decided that passing a trillion dollar entitlement program and restricting free speech in connection with federal elections will win him more votes from the middle-left than he will lose from the right.
Well enough. He won't get our votes.