Posted on 11/05/2004 5:55:43 AM PST by OESY
Having ignored the 11 state gay marriage initiatives before Tuesday's election, our friends in the mainstream media now can't talk about anything else. They seem astonished....
Meanwhile... readers might like... to consider some other important election results... notably on stem cell research, tort reform and immigration.
In California... [t]wo proposals to expand gambling in the state failed. So did an attempt to weaken California's "three strikes" law for repeat criminals. Measures aimed at limiting frivolous lawsuits also were approved and are in keeping with Mr. Schwarzenegger's promise to make the state more business-friendly.
But the Republican Governor's support for a $3 billion stem cell bond measure, which won 59% of the vote, will hurt the state in the long run....
Meanwhile, voters in four states split on how to handle runaway lawsuits. In Wyoming and Oregon, voters rejected caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice suits, while Nevada decided to cap them at $350,000 and Florida voted to limit attorneys' fees.
Various types of award caps are now in place in 27 states, but tort reform measures remain notoriously difficult to pass....
Where the measures did pass, some ironic credit may well belong to Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and former trial lawyer John Edwards. His elevation to the national ticket raised the public profile of lawsuit abuse, giving Republicans the chance to explain the link between frivolous lawsuits and health-care costs. Both Mr. Edwards and John Kerry were at pains to admit that even they supported some tort reform, and Mr. Bush's victory should animate Congress to move ahead and break the Democratic filibuster strategy that has blocked it in the past.
Finally, Arizona easily passed an initiative that bans undocumented aliens from receiving "public benefits" and turns state and local employees into appendages of the border patrol....
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With his endorsement of it, plus the Superman plea, it was doomed to win.
I voted against it, but was SO glad about the whuppin' that Indian gaming took that I gladly overlooked it.
When Polly Klass's GRANDFATHER voted to weaken the 3 strikes law I almost puked. When Polly's dad came out and said, "Keep them in prison," that sealed the fate of the stupid proposition's fate. Crash and burn, as it should have done.
I can live with the results...there just IS no perfection.
As long as you're not the one being dissected.
Everyone who supported Arnold-the-Aborter has blood on his hands.
You aren't judgmental...oh, not at all.
Speaking of quoting the Bible, isn't there a quote somewhere about casting the first stone? Something about "He who is without sin..." or something like that? Can't seem to remember.
1) Arnold's pro-abortion position was known before the election.
2) You voted for him.
Q.E.D.
In this world, you take what you can get. Arnold will answer for his life after this world, as will all of us. Arnold beats Gray Davis.
I think it is unfair to denounce Arnold and all his supporters over 1 or 2 issues.
Edwards' approach to fivilous lawsuits is to have a panel of lawyers decide which suits are fivilous and which are not. I'd trust a panel of lawyers to do the right thing, wouldn't you?
"Having ignored the 11 state gay marriage initiatives before Tuesday's election"...
s/b
"H Having ignored the 11 state gay marriage initiatives before Tuesday's election in order to push down conservative turnout"...
These are life issues. The right to life is fundamental. All other rights depend upon the right to life. The State is not within its rights in defining human beings out of existence.
It's never moral to support candidates who advocate serious, intrinsic evils like abortion, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning or homosexual "marriage," unless the opposing candidate is worse.
In the California gubernatorial election, conservatives had an alternaitve to Schwarzenegger --McClintock.
So glad that there is going to be a law for marriage to be one man and one woman. Good to hear that there will be no more divorce allowed. Divorces destroy lives.
Baloney. All that was "demonstrated" was that YOU are judgmental and seem to believe that you are free to cast the first stone.
Arrogance? Harhar. Christ's message of being judgmental is hard to take, innit?
Quae nocent docent. Of course, if you haven't learned that lesson yet....
1. Harhar. Bingo.
2. Fairness, is, I think, not part of the deal here. I may be wrong.
What we got with A's fan, I believe, is quot homines, tot sententiae.
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