Posted on 01/02/2012 6:50:14 PM PST by EveningStar
In case you were planning to sit this one out...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 78 years old
Antonin Scalia - 75 years old
Anthony Kennedy - 75 years old
Stephen Breyer - 73 years old
Clarence Thomas - 63 years old
Samuel Alito - 61 years old
Sonia Sotomayor - 57 years old
John Roberts - 56 years old
Elena Kagan - 51 years old
And of course there are unknown factors not related to age.
Let’s see. John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun, Earl Warren, and David Souter were all far left libs placed on the court by Republican presidents. And yeah, Mitt Romney’s gonna nominate a conservative. Sure he is. Like all those libs and Dems he nominated up in Massachusetts.
Republicans are really pathetic these days, always out with their bloody shirts and scare tactics.
Hi, EV. I love finding you in the forum. It cheers me up to read your comments. You write what I think but don’t often post.
Well said. As for me, I don’t believe a GOP Presidential candidate has carried California since 1988. However, I’m not staying home, I’m not voting third party, and I’m not voting Democrat.
A court that is not originalist but is activist or just fine with activist government takes us off the cliff. A court that is more reliably originalist can help apply the breaks.
Not to vote is to vote too...
What promises? Perhaps you meant to reply to a different post?
Surely you are not suggesting that the next President won’t appoint Supreme Court justices. Or that the Senate is not required to confirm Presidential appointments.
Those aren’t “promises.” Those are constitutional mandates.
Or perhaps you think Obama will appoint better nominees?
However, Romney demonstrated what kind of judges he will appoint when he was governor.
He sought out feminists and radical homosexual groups in his judicial selection process. He was inconsistent in his pronouncements on judicial activism, allowing it to occur under his watch while both supporting and opposing it.
What sort of attorneys would he name to his Justice Department? As Governor, his Chief Legal Counsels advised him to implement unconstitutional policies: implementing gay marriage without legislative authorization, and forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense morning-after abortion pills.
The Romney campaign’s rebuttal to this is that he appointed only lower level state judges and never had the opportunity to appoint judges to the state’s most important courts.
Yet while implying that he might have done something different had he made those appointments, they didn’t say so.
I am reminded of a company that provided “honor system” bagels to its employees, then after noticing how some of them weren’t paying, put a discreet camera on the bagels. Their Human Resources department was shocked to discover that every one of the employees who stole bagels was already suspected of other offenses, from petty theft to outright embezzlement.
If Romney abused the power of a governor’s office, it is almost certain that he would do so if elected president.
If Obama was reelected with a Republican congress, they would fight him every inch of the way. But if Romney is elected, he will cement everything Obama has done.
Good for you, a patriot indeed.
Your screen name and your excellent attitude remind me of the Parable of the Starfish. We must all do our one small part.
Those are examples of poor vetting. :(
And yeah, Mitt Romney’s gonna nominate a conservative. Sure he is. Like all those libs and Dems he nominated up in Massachusetts.
As I said before, we don't know what he would do in a national venue as opposed to liberal Massachusetts. I guess we can always hope for the best.
This sucks. Obama is ripe for the taking, but who can take him? Crap. :(
But I will no longer be manipulated or threatened into voting for anyone who won't keep the first obligations of the oath.
-- John Quincy Adams "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. " -- Samuel Adams “There remains the one standard that has not yet been universally used, namely, the choosing of candidates on moral grounds. A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. When our moral standards are different, our legislation will be different. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. Contemporary history proves that modern political leaders, devoid of a moral inspiration and relying solely on a mass basis (might makes right), proves ineffectual in time of crisis." -- Fulton Sheen, “COMMUNISM and the CONSCIENCE of the WEST” -1948“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
Whatever we may think of W, there’s two very good reasons to vote for the Republican - John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
Can you imagine what the court would look like if they were out and AlGore’s picks were in?
Scalia probably would have retired as well.
Wow.
Obama is not my plumb line, sorry.
Thanks for the kind words.
Happy New Year.
Obama must go and I will be there voting in November. Except for the nut Ron Paul, any of our candidates would be a vast improvement over what we have now. But I’ve lost my excitement and enthusiasm for the election because I’m not crazy about any of the names left. Kind of the way I felt when Fred Thompson dropped out in 2008. Back then I disliked McCain even more that most of us dislike Romney today and I felt like a deflated balloon when he became our nominee. We all did. Yet, something changed in that election that brought back the excitement here on FR, and it even had many of us reach for our check books to send the McCain campaign a little something, or ask how we might volunteer. If you look back on the 2008 archives of FR you will see how enthused we were. You could not contain our excitement. So what happened? PALIN. One of the smartest picks of a VP in presidential history.
Yeah cause Bush 41’s Souter pick was so good.
I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. I’m voting my conscience. If Obama wins again, I’m prepared.
“In a national venue, I have no idea who Romney would pick if he were president - and neither does anyone else here. “
Actually most of us here do have an idea of Mitt Romney’s internal, lifelong convictions and his demonstrated record as a failed, liberal Governor, that is why this site is an anti-Mitt Romney site.
“As I said before, we don’t know what he would do in a national venue as opposed to liberal Massachusetts. “
Romney was born liberal into a liberal family, the fact is that Massachusetts is where he started faking to not be as liberal as he really is.
I think leaving the GOP because of Reagan, coming out against conservatives and the Contract with America, and supporting and fundraising for the Democrat party showed that.
Well said. We need conservative (and not just Republican) control of both the House and the Senate. It would be nice to have a conservative President, but if the choice is between a Leninist socialist (Obama) and a Fabian socialist (Romney), I will skip that section of the ballot.
Newt or bust, and Lefty only thinks she would be okay with the bust. On to default, smaller government and new leadership. Starve the B.
Why can’t republican candidates go for broke and announce people they are considering for their V.P., cabinets, etc.? To not disclose, just shows that they are not open and above board when it’s kept a big secret until after...and some of those appointments are then “pay backs” to donors.
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