Posted on 01/07/2008 9:05:07 PM PST by jazusamo
President Reagan towers over any candidates who have followed him. Compared to his sense of knowing who he was and what he stood for, they’ve all been shadows.
A Constitutional Amendment, Calling A Constitutional Convention is necessary (The SCOTUS is broken and needs to be fixed). A President has an immense amount of leverage to drive that agenda.
Yeah, I saw the same column posted with a different title last night. I don’t know why several sites post his pieces with different titles, it’s confusing to say the least. But I posted “What Does It mean” about an hour and a half before “Remember, We’re Choosing a President” was posted. :)
The more his columns are posted the better because more people read them.
I agree with Medved. McCain is with the Republican party enough that he isn’t simply running as a republican to get elected. He’s not consistantly conservative, and he also votes against the party on party-line votes too often for my taste.
Of course, I tend to eschew the “RINO” label anyway, preferring to discuss ways in which candidates fail to support conservative or even republican party issues, rather than simply drawing a line one way or another.
But even under accepted definitions of RINO, I think McCain doesn’t quite fit. IN some ways, he is pretty conservative, and we could do worse for President (this ignores the questions of emotional stability).
Because of the title the other post had more responses and thus I had assumed they beat you to it. I’ll check times the next time! : )
A good analysis, and pretty straightforward (especially the side comment about McCain's stability).
Regarding Medved, I listen to him a lot and mostly enjoy his show. I'm just getting tired of his self-righteous, "I'm always right, you better listen to me" shtick. I know Rush claims he's always right (yes, it's a play on words, sometimes), but somehow Rush's way of making his points doesn't grate on me like Medved does.
On the other thread I believe some were reading things into his column that weren’t there, it did make for some interesting debate though. I have to chuckle to myself when some try to say Dr. Sowell has really blown it on some point, most often they just cherry pick a few words and then put words in his mouth to justify their point.
And his comment about Romney is true. Romney IS very even keeled. : )
Yes, your scenario happens a lot on the net, and everywhere, unfortunately.
“It was a combination of failing to acknowledge the Soviet domination of Poland, and the fact the many southerners wanted to vote for “one of their own” that year.”
Southerners, being mostly conservative, were tired of Rockefeller Republicans, country club republicans and other Moderate (ie liberal) republicans. The GOP always seems to come thru for the most liberal republicans, gee could it be that is why they aren’t getting many donations these days?
In a country which would pass the McCain-Feingold bill, you propose to convene a Constitutional Convention whose only purpose would be to change the Constitution? Repeal of the First and Second Amendments would be far more probable than any positive outcome you might conjure up.The SCOTUS is broken and needs to be fixed.
We are one justice away from a solid SCOTUS majority for consistent enforcement of the Constitution as its framers and ratifiers understood it. We were two justices away from that before O'Connor resigned, and we have been further away from it than that in recent memory.And, God willing, the next couple of vacancies on SCOTUS will not be due to the loss of the four solid and one sorta conservative justices on the court. There will really be a battle in the Senate over the next SCOTUS vacancy. But to try to get a constitutional amendment is an order of magnitude more difficult than getting Senate approval of a good man or woman to sit on SCOTUS.
We don't know the future- except that we know that throwing up our hands in disgust is a certain loser.
I checked mine and I got the Third edition and didn’t notice any lack of proofreading.
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