Posted on 03/09/2016 6:34:12 PM PST by WilliamIII
Key Republicans say they won’t back Donald Trump if he’s the GOP nominee. That may make them feel good — and seem principled. But from a practical standpoint, it makes no sense. Not when the next president will choose one or possibly more justices for the Supreme Court.
I say this as a conservative who has fought many fights as the GOP’s chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including for the judicial nominations of Miguel Estrada, Brett Kavanagh and Priscilla Owens, among others. The idea of the party not coalescing behind the eventual nominee would simply be mad. There’s too much at stake.
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I have no confidence whatsoever that Trump will appoint conservative justices.
Me neither, but if it happens, holy crap you have to play the averages at that point, right? I mean it’s a crap sandwich vs. a crap sandwich with flies.
Freegards
Guarantee you Hillary won’t. Nor will she be guided or counseled by anybody with even the remotest of conservative notions.
“I have no confidence whatsoever that Trump will appoint conservative justices.”
Good point! The candidate who has named Sen. Jeff Sessions as his top adviser simply could never be expected to nominate a conservative justice. Even though he gave us two names of judges on his short list - Bill Pryor and Diane Sykes - who are verified conservatives. You’re not someone who puts stock in such facts, and I salute you for ignoring them!
LOL!
For those of us that have been on the earth for over 50 years, confidence is low on anything.
We have watched our nation do nothing but decline since 1992.
That’s quite a long time. Thank God Reagan came along and reversed 1962-1981.
Trump knows what he needs to do.
A President Trump might have an easier time than a President Hillary putting in Leftist judges.
Oh please. Trump sees the court as a chit for dealmaking. He knows next to nothing about the Constitution nor does he care. They guy is in love with power. He couldn’t care less about limited government.
In 2012, Romney was the first presidential candidate in American history to get 59% of the white vote - and lose!
Romney got 19% of the non-white vote.
Romney lost to Obama by 4%. Romney got 206 electoral votes, 64 votes short of 270.
Trump must get at least as many white votes as Romney did to have any chance at victory. Considering Trump's high negatives in the Republican Party, that will be very hard to do.
Plus, Trump must get at least 30% of the non-white vote. No Republican presidential candidate has hit 30% of the non-white vote since Nixon in 1960.
That’s not with this article is about. It’s about us coalescing around our guy, whomever he is to defeat the dems.
Please post this article every fews days for awhile...
It is insane to support Clinton and to say we need constitutional judges on it. We must support whoever wins the Republican race to have any hope of a good job, not that republicans have always chosen well.
I just think Cruz is the better choice.
Vote for Ted Cruz; then you’ll have Constitutional judges.
I don’t trust Trump to pick judges when Planned Parenthood thanked Trump for his “kind words” about them.
“Not when the next president will choose one or possibly more justices for the Supreme Court.”
They don’t care. They have their cushy jobs now and want to keep them, and that’s what matters. They don’t even care about the world they’ll leave for their children.
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