[WestVirginiaRebel]

I couldn't have said this any better myself. Social conservatives who think that legislating an agenda is the answer are the ones who are hurting conservatism the most. They say they want strict Constitutional jurists, but they keep expecting the President to nominate judges who agree with their agenda. That's not what being a Supreme Court Justice is all about. It's about interpreting the law, not rewriting it to fit your political views.

Small government, low taxes, strong defense. That is the conservatism that Reagan understood and articulated so brilliantly.

[Kevmo]

That's not what being a Supreme Court Justice is all about. It's about interpreting the law, not rewriting it to fit your political views.
***That's exactly what the supreme court is all about because that's how we got in this mess in the first place. A bunch of activist liberal judges ascended and nearly wrecked our republic. I'd love to see an objective standard but it does not exist when the democrats admitted that they would use abortion views and Catholicism as a litmus test -- because they had nothing else on the nominees. So, it's not a case of "Social conservatives who think that legislating an agenda is the answer", it is the case of socons trying to right some wrongs that have occurred.