Patton: Will John Roberts Betray Us Again?

http://www.gopusa.com ^ | March 28, 2013 | Doug Patton

[Impy]

Even if not, anything to spare us the Truman error.

[BillyBoy]

Dewey was too moderate and bland for my tastes. I can see why he got the nomination in ‘44 after running a competitive campaign against FDR in ‘40, but he wouldn’t have been my first choice. I see the primary system worked differently back then... only a handful of states had primaries, Dewey actually fared poorly in them and only won 3 states, but did much better at the convention. General MacArthur (!) actually won the Illinois GOP primary. Wow. Hard to imagine being an Illinois primary voter in the 40s.

My first choice for most of those 40s and early 50s presidential campaigns would have probably been Bob Taft, but Governor John W. Bricker would have been the choice for conservatives by the time Illinois voted anyway. It’s a lot of the same names running from 1940 to 1952 (Stassen, Taft, Wilkie, Dewey, Warren, MacArthur, etc.) Makes me realize the sucky crop of candidates we’ve had in recent GOP primaries isn’t much different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,_1944

[fieldmarshaldj]

I was thinking, too, that Bricker might’ve been an excellent choice for Chief Justice at the start of Ike’s term. He was one of only a handful of Republican Attorneys General during the 1933-37 period, followed by 6 years as Governor (1939-45). Had he not stepped down as Governor to run as Dewey’s VP in 1944, he would’ve likely won a 4th 2-year term as Governor (instead, they narrowly elected Conservative Democrat Frank Lausche).

He won the open Senate seat of Harold Burton (a Republican appointed to the Supreme Court by Truman) in 1946 and was reelected in 1952. Unfortunately, because Lausche was Governor and that one seat was the difference between a GOP or Dem majority for the 1953-54 Senate, Lausche would’ve appointed a Dem (as he got to the Summer of ‘53 when Taft died, though we got the seat back in ‘54).

Bricker could’ve conceivably served on the court until his death... in 1986 ! Just in time for Rehnquist to succeed him as he did Warren Burger. Instead, alas, Bricker was one of the class of enormous casualties of 1958 against the execrable leftist Democrat Stephen Young (the mentor of Howard Metzenbaum, who was his campaign manager).

Who knows what either a President or Chief Justice Bricker would’ve done to reign in the government and/or SCOTUS ? He was a big believer in local government and right-to-work. Right-to-work ought to be a Constitutional Amendment.

[darrellmaurina]

15 posted on 3/28/2013 10:39:48 AM by C. Edmund Wright: “Actually, the libertarian position...proper libertarian position....woud be to protect the rights of those who are already under the contract of marriage...and to uphold what THAT contract means. And BTW, there is no such thing as SIMPLY ECONOMIC liberty. If you don’t own your property, you don’t own yourself. It’s called the “sanctity of life OUTSIDE the womb.””

If more libertarians sounded like you I'd have a lot fewer problems with that position.

There is a wing of the Republican Party which seems bound and determined to act like Democrats when it comes to personal morality but still advocate for economic conservative positions. I don't care whether we call them libertarians, RINOs, or “capitalists advocating immorality,” but whatever we call them, they need to be stopped.

[BillyBoy]

That's a pretty cool "what if" scenario, imagining if John Bricker had been Chief Justice of SCOTUS from 1953-1986 instead of out of control activist RINO Earl Warren and the totally ineffective "conservative" Warren Burger, a CJINO (Chief Justice In Name Only). Obviously it would be a very different country by the time Rehnquist took over in '86, although Bricker's 33 years on the court still wouldn't have surpassed John Marshall's record.

Looking at the court we have now, I'm glad I suggested a totally different direction than what Bush did in 2005-2006 with the Roberts/Miers/Alito nominations. Had I been in Bush's shoes, I would have elevated Clarence Thomas from associate justice to CJ to replace Rehnquist, and probably put justice Raoul G. Cantero of the Florida Supreme Court in Thomas' spot. (though I imagine GWB didn't do this because the RATs would have declared war on any Jeb Bush appointed judge). And I would have likely replaced Sandra Day O'Connor with Priscilla Owen or Paul Clement.

[GOPsterinMA]

The Republican Party is a cabal of impotent, stupid buffoons.

The Democrat Party is Satan incarnate.

The SCOTUS is mostly a group of bitchy fags.

This country is dead. As dead as the zombies in The Walking Dead, except in the show, you have free reign to re-kill the undead.

And Bob Barr should be forced have sex with his closest blood relative, then fed to bears.

[dfwgator]

Is the Pope an Argie?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Unfortunately, I think there were few clues that Roberts would be compromised.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You would obviously be surprised at who else calls property “sacred” - and you would be surprised to find out just how unsacred you as a person is when a government bureaucrat strips you of all of your property. You also made the predictable (and faulty) assumptions about my deeper positions.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Here’s how I see it: if more Libertarians would understand how to apply real liberty - and if more social conservatives understood that there is a moral component to money and that any government that steals property is not just a fiscal concern....then we would meld our coalitions together much better.

[dforest]

yeah, prolly.

[fatima]

Hey that was my one:)