I've found someone I can support!!!
Posted on 04/27/2008 1:40:15 AM PDT by Yosemitest
I've found someone I can support!!!
Sure, this will fix things.
Yep, Barr is a big supporter of the ACLU. We need more conservatives like that.
You had me until you mentioned “Bob Barr.”
Bob Barr also wants to completely withdraw from the ongoing War on Terror when we have actually been winning it. Just like the Libertarian Party on this issue, this is also the same position that the Constitution Party takes on complete withdrawal from the War on Terror. Wrong move! This issue alone completely takes out both the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party as serious contenders for the majority of votes from conservatives.
A vote for Barr is a vote for Obama.
Well I’d vote for your conviction, too, but I’m not on the jury.
Yup. But a vote for McCain is a vote for McCain.
btw, I just found out that Baldwin got the nomination for the Constitution Party:
I used to be a committeewoman for a 3rd party, but that 3rd party caused NYS to get the infamous Eliot Spitzer elected A.G., and then Governor, so that’s why I’m more practical now.
What concerns me is that the next president will pick a couple of Supreme Court judges, and Hillary and Obama will pick another Ginzburg.
But I will think about it and pray about it, and the VP that McCain picks will help me make my decision. If McCain doesn’t pick a conservative, pro-life VP, then I’ll know he doesn’t care about conservatives at all.
soon to be “President McCain”
I find the choices this year the single most distasteful for a Conservative of conscience since Ford-Carter in 1976. As for the Supreme Court, knowing Johnny’s ole record of kissing liberal tuchus, he’d appoint a “Conservative” in the mode of John Paul Stevens (yup, Stevens, despite being a leftist abomination IS a Republican) just to piss us off. The best thing for us to happen is that he picks Gov. Mark Sanford as his running mate, wins, and then kicks off sometime between after the election and 1/20/2009.
Just a bad gut feeling tells me the Chief wont make a full term this time, incarceration, incapacitation ect...
Lord help us all.
Why would that be bad ?
Brilliant.
Let’s throw the election to the Revolutionary Maxist Barrack Hussein Obama and his Black Liberation Theology.
That’ll teach those RINOs.
Man, I wish I had as many brains as you.
I don't like the ACLU any better than you do, but let's take a closer look. Let's see what Barr and Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine had to say.
Barr: It started with the initial anti-terrorism bill in '96. That probably was the first time that we recognized specifically that we had some very fundamental common interests. We worked together after that on several other pieces of legislation, such as the asset forfeiture reform, the national driver's license, and the Know Your Customer program.
I had always known them to be a very, very consistent advocate for civil liberties, but we disagreed on so many issues that I never really sought them out in terms of an ally.
But shortly after I came up to the Congress, I realized ,
Reason: Have you caught much flak from other conservative Republicans for cooperating with them?
Barr: To some extent, but the reaction generally has been positive.
Most people, when they stop to think about it, realize that there is a great commonality of interest between liberals and conservatives on these issues.
Reason: You started out sympathetic to civil libertarian concerns about trying terrorists before military tribunals,
but ended up endorsing the idea. What changed your mind?
Barr: The administration, in that instance, seemed to listen to a number of the criticisms that we made. It made some fairly substantial changes to the way they were going to carry out the tribunals.
There are two concerns that I continue to have.
One is that the administration can change its mind at any time. You can't say, "Hey, this is a great idea," and just walk away from it. You've got to monitor it and make sure nobody backslides.
The second is that I don't think we've seen a consistent standard exercised by the administration in deciding when to use military tribunals. That's bothersome.
If you use it in an appropriate setting
And then you have the Zacarias Moussaui case, where because the government doesn't seem to be getting its way with regard to access to witnesses by the defendant, they indicate,
Forget choosing the Lesser of Two Evils.
Right now the Democrats are deciding on the Evil of Two Lessers.
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