Ralph Reed compromised like this and threw the Moral Majority behind Bob Dole.
Dole took his endorsement, won the convention’s nomination, and promptly kicked the Moral Majority in the teeth. He didn’t even wait for the convention to be over before he declared himself in favor of abortion.
Needless to say, Dole was a dismal candidate, who said all the wrong things and turned off his base. Reed was forced out of his job as a result.
Would I trust Rudy to appoint conservative justices? He wouldn’t know what a strict constructionist was if he tripped over one.
Strict constructionist gets to be a slipperier and slipperier expression. Everyone’s using the expression...democrats and republicans alike.
Isn’t Scalia the one who calls himself an “originalist?” Or is that “Thompson?”
I think I’ll end up liking the Constitutional Literalists.