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To: Brices Crossroads
I hate to post "Great post!" posts, but doggone it, that was one great post, X-roads. Especially the point about examining judges on their faithfulness to the constitution, rather than on specific issues. If they truly understand and rigorously apply the constitution, everything else will follow from that. I think you're right that Thompson is the best qualified and most inclined to do that.

The only thing I disagree with is the idea that an HLA will "never happen." It could, well into the future (how many of us in, say, 1968 thought the Soviet Union would ever fall?), but the idea that the next president, or the next three, will have a chance to do anything about it is far fetched.

450 posted on 11/04/2007 8:04:22 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Picture your tagline here!)
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To: Hunton Peck

I appreciate the kind words. I too am reluctant to predict the HLA will never happen. I probably should have qualified it by saying “barring some divine intervention” or that it likely won’t happen for the next two or three Presidencies, as you point out. I am just tired of people like Huckabee dangling their ip service to the HLA as evidence of their prolife bona fides, instead of addressing the issue (anti-federalist, anti-consitutionalist judicial interpretation)that brought us Roe (and a lot of other bad jurisprudence) in the first place.


458 posted on 11/04/2007 8:24:48 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
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