[NavyCanDo]

Yes!

5-4 decision. These decision are just too close. This is why it’s so important we nominate a conservative for president in 08 and not compromise on a moderate or liberal just because they are more popular with the media.

[traderrob6]

Dissenters Stevens, Ginsburg, Suter, Breyer?

[Alissa]

Do you consider Bush a Conservative?

[NonValueAdded]

5-4 decision. These decision are just too close. This is why it’s so important we nominate a conservative for president in 08 and not compromise on a moderate or liberal just because they are more popular with the media.

Very true but don't forget Congress in that mix. All SCOTUS has done^* is uphold the constitutionality of a law, a law that any Congress can overturn if there is a veto-proof majority or a complicit POTUS that desires to do so.

^*not to diminish the importance of this decision, though.

[longtermmemmory]

This is going to upset the RINOS.

We have a left wing media in a feeding frenzy pushing common sense gun control and acting like whore-nalists rather than journalists, AN NOW

we have this which is going to invigorate the examination of the candidates.

Rudy Guiliani has a DOJ history, the lawyers there are government employee types. NOT a good candidate pool for USSC judges.

[AFPhys]

So... if it were to come down to a choice between Hitlery or a “moderate”... how do you vote? Are you going to dictate that another Ginsberg will be put on the USSC? Try to be realistic in your answer.

[Polybius]

5-4 decision. These decision are just too close. This is why it’s so important we nominate a conservative for president in 08 and not compromise on a moderate or liberal just because they are more popular with the media.

However, you must also take into account the mood of the USA outside Free Republic and the mood is as nasty against conservatives as it was against liberals after Jimmy Carter's term.

We have George W. Bush's inability or unwillingness to use the Bully Pulpit effectively to thank for that.

Rudy knows how to use the Bully Pulpit effectively and he is a Republican that would be a favorite to win in November.

A conservative that will go down to defeat in November in a conservative blaze of glory will get a hard core liberal elected that will pack SCOTUS with Ruth Ginsburg clones that will enshrine abortion as a Constitutional right for generations to come.

At least Rudy will nominate justices along more conservative lines.

In the end, even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it will mean that abortion is a State's Right issue unless an Abortion Rights Amendment is passed.

From what I have heard, Rudy is fine with a State's Rights position and, since the liberals will never succeed in passing an Abortion Rights Amendment and conservatives will never succeed in passing an Abortion Prohibition Amendment, that is as good as it's going to get.

[Outland]

"This is why it’s so important we nominate a conservative for president in 08 and not compromise on a moderate or liberal just because they are more popular with the media."

So very true.

[dannyboy72]

Fred Dalton Thompson