Posted on 11/05/2004 6:58:30 PM PST by polyester~monkey
who will it be
Unfortunately, Santorum conviced us to BACK a lefist for PA Senate....Specter. So he is out for me.
Lindsay Graham is a RINO skunk. No f'ing way!
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf ~ Jeb Bush
Noonan?...you have got to be kidding?
That syrupy drawl is nauseous
Re-read any of Ronald Reagan's speeches lately?
Too soon for Jeb, the electorate will need a Bush holiday after eight years of Dubya, and anyway they'll be getting as nervous about dynastic politics as I am.
Though he would remain a possibility down the line if he remains in public life.
Generals, as a rule, haven't made good presidents, though. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant was a great general and an ineffectual, even dismal, president. Zachary Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready", ate a bowl of cherries and died. Wm. Henry Harrison, "Old Tippecanoe", got rained on and died. Eisenhower was more successful, but even his administration carried an air of marking time, as the Wall Street interests put making money at the top of the national agenda. Only President Washington stands out as a former top general in the presidency.
I know this and that is why judicial candidates are so important NOW.
Excellent point that can't be made resoundingly enough. But Dubya keeps elevating people like Miguel Estrada, who is in that same RiNOferous vein as Condi, Powell, and X41.
The acid test comes when Justice Rehnquist (may he overcome his terrible illness and live long) retires. Will Dubya elevate Justice Scalia? That's what I see as the acid test.
If Dubya names Scalia CJ, then O'Connor, who was hoping for it, will retire. But O'Connor has been waiting to retire, we've been told, for two or three years. Did Dubya whisper something into her ear? If he elevates O'Connor, we're screwed -- she voted to reaffirm Roe, and then she was the swing vote on the Lawrence crudity. O'Connor as CJ would play keep-away with Scalia and Thomas until they both turned blue, and Ginzburg would wind up being the intellectual on the court instead of Scalia -- then the Tenth Amendment restoration is toast, federalism is toast, and Hamiltonian Big Government and the Commerce Clause totalitarians are back in business. Want that?
X41 nominated Souter. I'm afraid Dubya is going to nominate more Souters. That's the problem.
Bill Owens is the frontrunner in my opinion. Mike Huckabee would be a good choice. But some other strongly conservative candidates need to come forward.
Nope. Barak Obama will be the new minority darling child of the Dems, which leaves Harold Ford out.
Just like putting Thurgood Marshall, who argued ex parte in Brown vs. Board of Education, on the bench to be an advocate on the Court for the civil rights leadership.
Liberals have used the Supreme Court as a third, and decretory, legislative chamber, nominating a long line of totally partisan positivist spear-carriers to the High Court. And Republicans keep nominating secret swingers, rusty gates, and middle-of-the-roaders.
JC Watts V. Pres.
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That all said, politics it seems to me is completely different from business, much less industry, so I can't extrapolate from my experience.
Regarding Bill Frist, he doesn't have national prominence yet; he hasn't been in the Senate long enough, and has only been in leadership a couple of years, if that. I like that he's a Tennesseean, and a medical doctor, so he would have a ton of credibility on a number of hot-button issues, but still his best situation for the middle future will be in the Senate, building a track record.
Mitch McConnell has, unless I'm mistaking him for someone else, a very large liability as the GOP's PACman. He fought the 'Rat's CFR scam every step of the way, and in so doing sacrificed his national rep, IMHO, by appearing to front for the PAC-lubricated status quo, as a partisan for the Lobby. The People hate the Lobby and for good reason, since the Lobby competes with them, flouts them, and grows fat off their substance through the bacterial feeding processes of corporate welfare. McConnell is probably the one Republican in the Senate who has as much baggage as Hillary.
Mitt Romney I don't know enough about. Had a conversation about him with a FReeper a couple of years ago.....we might oughta ping some Taxachusetts FReepers to our board and ask them. How about it, guys? Think Midwestern conservatives would go for Mitt?
Pinging Mass. FReepers for background on Mitt.....we're handicapping future Prezzy candidates and our amigo brought him up.
J.C. Watts is top people and a political threat to the Democrats, to break up (finally!) Deal with the Devil that the black community's leadership made with the urban Left back in the 1930's. But he has only been a Congressman, he needs heavying up. Not yet ready.
I suppose this is a phase they're going through, like longuette swimwear in the 1920's or riding sidesaddle. My problem is that so many of them are feminists and apt to designate me an Enemy Target because I'm conservative and I have issues about so many women being in the workforce while latchkey kids turn into either State-molded Kerry voters or semisocialized, sugar-tweaking latchkey barbarians.
We discussed Elizabeth Dole and Condi Rice: their public careers have been laudable to spectacular, but where are their children? Generalizing from their examples, can society afford to extinguish so many talented genetic lines? I noticed, among other wanderings, that a couple of women astronauts (I don't like calling them "females" and "males" -- that hyperclinical language is demeaning) had to take career pauses to have their families: time for just a couple of quick babies (deferred, by the way, into their late 30's -- how good is that?), and then back to work. I'm referring particularly to Anna Fisher, one of the older astronauts who's never been up (she's an MD and has tended to get tagged for postflight medical duties), who took a sabbatical, and Eileen Collins, who finished out her career as a field-grade officer in the Air Force, where she was flying C-141's when not flying space shuttles, had a couple of kids pretty quickly, and then was back in the saddle, all apparently while still in the astronaut corps as a civilian. I mention these two women as good examples of making one's family pretzel around career requirements that are not particularly family-friendly since they were based on the original moose-club model of an all-male, mostly-military astronaut corps.
Returning to the larger demographic questions about family formation and population replacement, it seems, too, that the Business Class RiNOs' answer to the birth deficit in what we used to call the American population is to import masses of people from Asia and Latin America to be our bottle-washers and baby-makers -- oh, what a good plan! Alienate the population base.....I'm particularly minded of a University of Houston professor's history lecture in which he gave rapid demographic change as one of the principal causes of the American Revolution. Yes, by all means let's get that cheap labor in here, and have ourselves a few good quarters before the next civil war.
Remind me to bore you with a story from Polybius sometime, about the civic vision of businessmen.
We need a different work/family arrangement, and we'll need to use the People's lawmaking power to get managements to back off the demands they're making on their talent. They have these other important agenda called lives.....
But that's just me talking.
Good insights - and far beyond what I know of SCOTUS. Did you happen to hear Hugh Hewitt this evening? He made a case for allowing Specter to remain in the judiciary commitee and even allowing him the leadership. In essence, his argument is rooted in the idea that it is possible to go too far too fast as Gingrich did after '94 and ended up toast. I think he may have posted his thoughts on his site, but I haven't gone over to look it up yet - just checking in here. Thanks for your very informed views!
Frist is a lovely man, but highly ineffective as Majority Leader.
We are not winning anything unless we take care of the elitists in the mainstream media that almost stole this election.
We already went through this earlier in the day...
Senator Allen of VA and Condi Rice for VP is my vote...
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