Posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:03 AM PDT by SueRae
Hearing on Fox News
Thanks, but I was expecting *flame* ... LOL!
Maybe the Kelo eminent domain case will turn out to be good after all. Now the country ia awake to the mischief that a liberal court can do to private rights.
There is a difference between social conservatives and conservatives that are both social and fiscal. Social conservatives I have met are unbending under any circumstance and if they don't get their way, they will pick up and go home and let a liberal win. I consider them the "my way" or "no way" crowd. Look at what just happened in recent months, court rulings go against what they want and they want judges impeached and an activist court.
A conservative wants a strict constructionist on the Court to rule not make up things to suit their ideology. A Conservative is the broken glass Republican who will always vote. We have to beg the social conservatives to get on board so often because some candidate is not 100% of what they want -- remember the "purist" or "true" conservative that gets tossed around -- that is from the social conservatives IMHO. That's my interpretation of the difference between a conservative and a social conservative.
BTW, if you haven't guessed, I fall the in the Conservative Republican mold that understands you don't always get everything you want but you keep on trying and never fold up your tent and go home. If I was the type to fold a tent, I would have left this site in recent months but I have chosen to stay and fight the naysayers and doom and gloomers that are now populating this site. They have risen from the ashes of 2000 to be joined by newbies or at least new screen names from 2004.
Yes they would. And they would be outraged that anyone whose wife was killed on 9-11 was even considered. Outraged!
Remember who we are talking about here.
Right, country club pubs can't win on their own. But neither can social conservatives.
We are wed. That is the only way we have power. So quit dissing us at the club.
Wrong! We win because we carry the middleground.
I think I have read recently in Levin's book that it was done in the early days, maybe because a justice got put in jail or something like that.
LOL, could be ... but until proven otherwise I'm going to trust this President to be a man of his word on judicial appointments.
Social conservatives have a history of supporting government activism. They used to be Southern Democrats-- fully supportive of all the expansionist agenda of FDR and LBJ, but separating on civil rights issues. The notion that "the government that governs best, governs least" was foreign to them as a blanket policy covering all government action.
"i have no idea if he will feel beholden to replace like with like. that is a horrible trap to fall into, IMO, ie; the jewish seat, the woman's seat, the black seat etc. it then becomes like an affirmative action paradigm instead of a court."
Absolutely correct, xsmommy.
Let the Dims play the race/gender/ethnicity cards. I would hope the Repubs would be above that. I'm white but would love to have 9 Clarence Thomases or Janice Rogers Browns on the court. I don't care about those types of superficial issues. I want to know if they will faithfully interpret the constitution and not legislate.
I keep seeing posts like "They wouldn't dare go after __________________", implying that somehow Dims would handle anyone other than a white male with kid gloves. We shouldn't kid ourselves. Only Repubs are that stupid (viz, Darth Vader Ginsburg).
Then quit referring to us as "they" we aren't aliens.
If this is now designated "Broad Seat" then I say JANICE ROGERS-BROWN!!! I dare them to try another high-tech lynching!
I don't remember. I know Rudman was instrumental... guaranteed GHWB that Souter was a true conservative. I remember thinking at the time "oh no he's not" but I was only basing my opinion on Souter being a New Englander.
Blackmail!
PINNNNNNNGGGGG! The time is now--does Judge Brown have a chance?
O buy that way I AM FROM IOWA and am a 20 year US Navy retiree and LIVE IN NEBRASKA!
If you want a good indication of just how little influence these so-called "moderate Republicans" have in the GOP, just look at former New Jersey governor and EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman. Her long-awaited book -- titled something like It's My Party, Too -- was released with great fanfare in January, and then ended up on the discount rack at Barnes & Noble about 48 hours after it was released.
Peach, told you so, two weeks ago.
"There is alot of room to disagree on what makes this country strong. Social conservatives don't allow much room if you ask me."
You are dead wrong!!! All conservatives win together and are united! Fiscal conservatives win when social conservatives win and vice-versa.
I'm an across the board conservative, fiscal and social. This is the big fight. Nothing matters if our all legislation and our constitutional rights are shredded by a "moderate" Court
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