Posted on 02/02/2008 1:29:05 PM PST by moderate_conservative
Steven Calabresi, Professor of Law at Northwestern University (http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/fulltime/Calabresi/Calabresi.html) and co-founder of the premiere conservative legal organization, The Federalist Society, who previously backed Rudy has now endorsed John McCain. In an e-mail to me he explained:
I have endorsed Senator McCain and think he would be an excellent president because he is tough on foreign policy, committed to spending restraint which is the key to small government, and because he has consistently voted for good judicial nominees in tough fights like Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. I am not troubled by his role as a member of the gang of 14 because I think the compromise he forged got us cloture on Roberts and Alito and produced three excellent lower court judges: Bill Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, and Priscilla Owen.
Conservative legal scholar and former Solicitor General Charles Fried, another ex-Rudy supporter, also informed me that he “immediately, readily and enthusiastically switched to McCain” after Rudy dropped out.
If you are looking for some insightful responses, you will be discouraged by a bunch of juvenile comments with stupid nicknames such as “McNasty”, “McLame”, “McHillary”, etc. etc. You will need to wade through these to get to anything of substance on the topic.
“who previously backed Rudy”
That’s all we need to know. Good bye. Mitt Romney - save us from these useful idiots for the left. Go, Mitt!!
Action speak far louder then words. An based on his actions McCain would be as weak a President as either Hillary or Obama. The only difference would be McCain’s GOP party label.
Your candidate has been accepting large donations from such left-wing progressives as Tides Foundation (George Soros), the Environmental Defense Fund, and David Geffen (Hollywood entertainement producer). McCain founded a 501 nonprofit to hide those donations. See at the following link:
http://www.reforminstitute.org
One of the major players in this organization is Dr. Juan Hernandez, a former minister in the Mexican administration of Vicente Fox. Dr. Hernandez was a fundamental player in tranferring 10% of Mexico’s poorest population into the U.S., where we now provide them with generous welfare.
After reading about Senator McCain’s think tank with its proposals for curtailing First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech, and a future North American Federation, maybe you won’t be so quick to vote for him.
The Federalist Society is confused?
Since the self-annointed "true conservatives and real Americans" at FR have been bashing top shelf feddie Ted Olson for endorsing McCain, I'm sure there will be more bashing of other feddies.
Scalia? Thomas? Alito? Roberts? Ashcroft? Its a long list since the Federalist Society is the cornerstone of the VRWC.
That was a really dumb comment. So somebody who holds 95% of the views that you believe define conservatism, but disagrees on the other 5%, is simply not a conservative?
Transferring support from one liberal to another.
God bless. We have to start working to remake the GOP or join a third party.
There is no choice this November. We have the leftwing Democrat and the rightwing Democrat.
And they call this democracy.
No. There are only people who think there are degrees of conservatism that would include moderates. Those who think that are not conservatives because they don't adhere to conservative values and convictions.
The FR forum states: As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty.
No moderate can make that statement, therefore they are not conservatives.
I consider allowing foreigners to invade our country with hardly a slap on the wrist for doing it to be about as weak on foreign policy as one could get.
If I remember there were 4 founders of the Federalist Society.
I highly doubt that Professor Gary Lawson is supporting McCain. Apparently while he was a law student at yale he had a bumper sticker on his briefcase “Taxation is Theft”
are degrees of conservatism
Incorrection allusion. There are degrees, of course, but they are lateral movements namely those attached to different issues, not up and out into liberal land.
Its the same thing as being the fry station manager v the burger manager.
Same pay, same place, same job, different title.
But you can always tell a Burger King from the Dairy queen.
http://www.reforminstitute.org
Well, if you are going to drag facts into this, all I can say is...
Good!
Mr. niteowl77
what is wrong with these f*^$*g people?
goodness gracious, mccain is going down worse than dole in 96.
Even if he doesn’t, he will be as bad as jimmy carter.
I didn't say that..but if he holds 95% he is not a moderate. There is no such thing as a moderate conservative. |
No barf alert?
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