Posted on 07/12/2005 7:48:24 AM PDT by watsonfellow
I look forward to all those pro-life freepers defending the president on this one.
Clearly, social conservatives are good enough to raise money, work themselves to the bone to get a candidate elected, and turn out in record numbers...but at the end of the day, they aren't important enough to honor a campaign promise.
Roe is here to stay.
At least the Democrats are honest about it.
Not just Roe...I think Gonzales will be a disaster on property rights, religious issues, guns, and many other issues as well.
However, I'll at least hold some hope in Brownback's decision/recommendation. Maybe he can talk Bush out of it. Or-as some have suggested, maybe Gonzales won't be so bad (but I doubt that.)
Gonzales - Spanish for "Souter."
Dubya, where's this "conservative constitutionalist in the mold of Scalia or Thomas" you're talking about? Or does the fact that Gonzales is your friend trump that? Leave him as AG, he can't do (as) much damage there. Give us someone better for SCOTUS.
The fiscal conservatives and pro-2nd amendment supporters ain't fans of Gonzales either. Quite honestly I don't know anyone on the right that would be all that happy with him. I don't understand it at all.
If Bush nominates Gonzales I've reached my last straw with the republican party. I'll just sit home on election day from now on.
I'd say the announcement of this meeting is a test of us real conservatives to see our reaction. If it's hot enough, this nomination will not happen.
President George W Bush
bttttt
At best, Gonzales will be another O'Connor.
If Dubya nominates Gonzales, that's the last straw and I'm done with the R party. I'll change my party affiliation to "none." I'd sooner sit in my cave and watch the moss grow than lift another finger to help the squishy bunch of cowardly centrists. That goes doubly for Dubya.
At least if the Dems get back in power, the revolution will come more quickly. It seems by electing Republicans, we simply prolong the agony and, since things don't get as bad as quickly, it probably means the boiling point moves higher. Always remember the frog in the pot of water on the stove; if you don't want him to jump out, keep the heat low. That's the Republican way to socialism.
Bush may think that, as a lame duck, he can spit in his base's eye and not pay for it. He is mistaken. This will completely kill the momentum he has built up over the past four years, wreck Republican chances in the midterm election, and undermine the next Republican candidate in 2008, now matter how well established his conservative credentials may be.
It's a deal breaker. It will be ten or twelve years before conservative Catholics and Evangelicals forget such a betrayal, since it would only be the last of a long string of betrayals.
People revere the name of Ronald Reagan. They will not revere the name of G. W. Bush. Liberals will continue to mock Bush as an idiot, and there will be no one to defend him.
Karl Rove has been a constant supporter of the RINO, country club, pro-abortion wing of the party. I thought he had finally learned his lesson, but evidently not. No, if this nomination goes forward, there will be no forgiveness.
Deja Vu "Read my lips - I'm pro-life"
Here is where we need the raw ambition of politicians to help us.
If Brownback wants to be Prez., he needs to cut loose here and do what the brazenly ambitious would do: interview Gonzales, then walk out and hold a press conference denouncing him as a moderate and declaring that he will lead the conservative charge to defeat Gonzales, if nominated.
Brownback would then become a champion of the right, would likely become the frontrunner among the conservatives...and more importantly, Gonzales would lose.
I don't know if Brownback has the stones to take on the establishment this way.
It might be time for Dr. Coburn to step up to the plate.
"Calling Dr. Coburn...Calling Dr. Coburn...!!!"
Get real guys and stop your delusion and savage attacks on the President. Even if we have 9 Scalia and Thomas on the SCOTUS Roe Vs. Wade will never be overturned, never, ever. The best we can get are Supreme Court judges that prevent further baby killing laws from being implemented.
I think we should wait and see who he nominates before getting out the pitch forks. All this is, is pure speculation
I'm with you. If Gonzales is nominated, I'm sitting on my hands in 2006, open seat in my (blue) state or not. Outrageous to even consider this (and don't give me the "his parental notification decision was strict constructionist" - go back and read the decision, and then look at his work on the Bollinger case). All the work that conservatives have put in will have gone for naught, so screw 'em.
Hope this is a smokescreen
I agree with you...I have refrained from posting anything on these threads about the nomination....I just cannot believe that President Bush would betray us by nominating Gonzales. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt....I am afraid it will cost us Republicans many seats if Pres. Bush betrays his base. I pray he does not.
BOHICA!!!
I'll keep my trap shut until the decision is made.
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