John McCain and Barack Obama: Two visions of the Supreme Court

The Los Angeles Times ^ | May 19, 2008 | David G. Savage

[2ndDivisionVet]

See my tagline...

[Clintonfatigued]

This is the most important thing at stake, except possibly the War on Terror.

[madison10]

Regarding your tagline: So how are Hillary and Obama doing? Convinced yet? :)

[Norman Bates]

This is the most important issue of the election.

[Incorrigible]

Puleeeaaase!

McCain will be facing 60 DemocRAT Senators. He wouldn’t even bother nominating a Roberts or Alito.

McCain will quickly cave and give us legacy of liberal SCOTUS judges for years and years to come!

[Norman Bates]

Why would you assume that? A new President has a mandate and time to make appointments. He’s the mover. Congress can’t just sit there for years and do nothing.

[Norman Bates]

McCain will quickly cave and give us legacy of liberal SCOTUS judges for years and years to come!

"Wishful" thinking at best. But I can guarantee Obama will.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Regarding your tagline: So how are Hillary and Obama doing? Convinced yet? :)"

I've been convinced that we can't "sit this one out" or "write-in a conservative" or "vote third party" or any other feel good alternative for some time. Out troops, our Supreme Court & other federal appointments and our nation are too important to let a neophyte proto-Marxist race-baiting Chance Gardener anywhere near the Oval Office. Was anyone here really under the delusion that President Bush was a "Reagan Republican" prior to the 2000 election? But did you vote for him? Of course! Half a loaf and all that...

[Clintonfatigued]

Here is a telling excerpt from the article:

“If elected, Obama would be hard-pressed to create a truly liberal court. But by replacing the aging liberal justices with liberals, he could preserve abortion rights and maintain a strict separation of church and state.”

Enough said.

[Question Liberal Authority]

"What's truly elitist is to appoint judges who will protect the powerful and leave ordinary Americans to fend for themselves,"

Well, gee, Barry. Why don't you just meet with them without preconditions and unite them to your vision of Hope And Change?

[Incorrigible]

 

 

[Norman Bates]

Can you imagine God forbid if something happened to Scalia and he was seat was filled by that pr**k Obama? Heck, even if Congress forced his hand on Stevens or Ginsburg to replace them with a moderate even McCain knows he would be expected to replace Scalia with a solid conservative and Scalia is of enough stature where even congress would not dare risk the public outcry of disrespecting Scalia’s successor.

[Mr. Mojo]

Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) said he was most concerned about a conservative court that tilted to the side of "the powerful against the powerless," and to corporations and the government against individuals. "What's truly elitist is to appoint judges who will protect the powerful and leave ordinary Americans to fend for themselves," he said in response to McCain.

Empty rhetoric. ...completely without substance. Obama couldn't cite one example of the conservatives on the court siding against "the powerless." In fact, the exact opposite is true -- Justices Affirm Property Seizures.

That was a 5 - 4 decision, and it was the liberals on the court that comprised the majority.

But as usual, reality means precisely squat to the Left. They just make stuff up, and the sheeple buy it unquestioningly.

[Norman Bates]

If Tom Coburn can trust McCain on judicial picks - and word is that was the selling point for earning his endorsement - then it’s good enough for me. TOM COBURN for crying out loud!

[Norman Bates]

I can’t wait to see the heads explode when McCain nominates Coburn for SCOTUS!!!

[Clintonfatigued]

LOL!

John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as headed for retirement, and it’s more likely than not that David Souter will leave also.

[okie01]

But as usual, reality means precisely squat to the Left. They just make stuff up, and the sheeple buy it unquestioningly.

Not quite. It's the MSM that buys it unquestioningly. Then unblushingly repeats it as it were true.

[Clintonfatigued]

Obama appointing Supreme Court Justices alarms me more.

[Mr. Mojo]

The "sheeple" I was referring to includes the MSM.