Posted on 07/17/2008 10:28:15 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The judiciary is becoming an important election issue. John McCain is warning conservatives that control of today's finely balanced Supreme Court depends on his election. Unfortunately, his jurisprudence is likely to be anything but conservative.
The idea of a "living Constitution" long has been popular on the political left. Conservatives routinely dismiss such result-oriented justice, denouncing "judicial activism" and proclaiming their fidelity to "original intent." However, many Republicans, like Mr. McCain, are just as result-oriented as their Democratic opponents. They only disagree over the result desired.
Judge-made rights are wrong because there is no constitutional warrant behind them. The Constitution leaves most decisions up to the normal political process.
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They want Ron Paul.
.....Thats how we ended up with McCain in the first place....
No, you are wrong there. There were several candidates in the primary and McCain attractred the most voters. The vote was positive, not negative.
You have chosen to make yourself irrelevant in the Presidential election by not making the hard choice between the two real candidates. As Freeper friends, we can only hope reason pragmatically prevails.
That is an entirely specious argument. You can't justify the wholesale refusal of this current Supreme Court to obey the Constitution as a necessary thing in order to enforce the First or Second Amendments. Barr is simply trying to rationalize the abuse of power we've seen from this 5 vote majority. If Obama is elected, the aging abusers will retire and be replaced by young abusers of even worse character.
Yes, it would be nice if the Supreme Court activism were actually used to enforce the meaning of the Constitution, but historically, that is not what has happened. It has instead been used to undermine the Constitution.
Although I will not vote for Barr (Libertarians are weak on border and national security, and weak on illegal alienism), this article rings 100% true on McCain
Only the most delusion liberal GOPer believes that McCain would really appoint conservative justices.
Too many have bought the “If we dont vote for McCain, Obama wins” crap.
Point blank: You are not a conservative if you are voting McCain. Deal with it
The GOP is useless as a party if the only reason to vote for their candidate is that the DNC candidate is not as liberal
Bob Barr is an ass and has as much chance of being elected President as I do.
What gets me is those that fall blindly into formation behind McCain.
Why shouldn’t we voice our concerns? Why shouldn’t we light a fire under his feet?
We should keep the pressure on him. We need him to see and grasp the reality of just how low he’s polling with us. We need to make him nervous, worried, and fearful of a loss at our hands.
He must be made to feel forced to make public promises to support Conservative Core Values, promises we can hold him accountable to. That’s the goal. It’s not to just fall in line and give freely our support.
At this point, he doesn’t deserve our support, or our votes. Only when he makes a bond with his word, and nominates a truly superior Conservative to ride his coattails to a promotion, will he deserve what we have to offer him...our loyalty and votes.
Until that happens, he can go pound sand.
Morons.
DUUUHHHH. And just what does that say about just about EVERY freaking Pubbie in the Senate at the time? These clowns are simply members of the two branches of the Demopublican party.
And could that explain why we're probably going to get BO as CEO of what will shortly become the largest national socialist operation in the world.
George Wallace got it right: "There isn't a dimes worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats."
Only now, thanks to the Demopublican INFLATION, it's up to 6 bucks or more.
A pox on BOTH their houses.
I used to respect Bob Barr, but he seems to be full of himself, much like a large-eared candidate from Chicago whose middle name is Hussein.
The way I see it, I can decide to vote for McCain for whatever reason I decide is important to me. I don’t need Bob Barr to tell me why my reason is not valid.
OK Einstein...if we don't elect McCain who WILL win?
We lose a Ginsberg, we may end up with a Clinton under Johnnies watch...
If the First and Second Amendments are your litmus test for POTUS, why the gibbering hell are you voting for “McCain-Feingold”/”Closer the gun show loophole”/”Saturday Night Special ban” McCain?
1st ammendment
2nd ammendment
Any questiions??
This is a joke, right? McCain? First Amendment? Did you ever here about McCain/Feingold one of the biggest affronts to the First Amenndment in our History? You know who the McCain who authored that bill is?
LOL
You'd think you'd want to vote for a fellow "ass".
Unless you like the Democrat mascot in which case continue to stump for Juan McAmnesty...
Why did Fred Thompson and Zell Miller vote for it and President Bush sign it into law?
Who offered to cowrite it and who signed it into law?
You Nancy one notes make me sick. Pull your head out of your arse and deal with the real world. You have 2 choices in November. McCain or Obama. Grow the hell up why don’t you?
Does it have anything to do with McCain being someone who cannot be trusted on First Amendment issues?
It is common courtesy once a president’s picks have been cleared to let the president have the nominee. You control the supreme court nominees by controlling the presidency.
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