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Posted on 06/30/2005 10:12:44 AM PDT by Mike10542
Can someone please calm my nerves. All this talk about who Bush might appoint is worrying me. I don't care if a liberal judge, moderate judge, or conservative judge retires, Bush has promised he will appoint originalists to the court. The idea is not to keep the status quo and replace a moderate judge with a moderate. The whole point of working to reeelect Bush was to get him to replace conservatives with conservatives, moderates with conservatives, and liberals with conservatives. I think for the most part, Bush, Rove, Mehlman know they must do this as not to piss off everyone that worked to get Bush reelected for this reason. So why is Alberto Gonzalez being mentioned as a possible SCOTUS nominee? I don't care who it would be to replace, we can not accept his nomination. Besides, I doubt he could even get confirmed because Democrats would be united against him because of the torture memos and I would hope at least 6 Republican senators would vote against him because he is pro-choice. Can somone please reassure me that Bush and company would not be so stupid to play politics (appointing a Hispanic to the court) over what they have promised and seem to believe in, restoring order to the courts by nominating originalists to the SCOTUS!!! Thanks freepers.
It seems like you can't trust any of these judges once they get on the bench.
I can offer you no reassurances. Wish I could do better.
Keep your powder dry and relax until then.
Would be nice to get one with a soul for a change..
Try metamucil.
Let me assuage your fears, we're all doomed.
Bush will not be able to appoint anybody without the approval of the dems and rino's.
Do you like what you know about Bush's prior appointments? Did you like Pryor, Brown and Owens? Do you like Bolton? Do you like Rice? Did you like Ashcroft? Did you like Powell? ect?
If you did like all or most of his appointees so far, then you have to have faith. If not, then you of course have worries.
If a third spot opens up (presumably one of the liberal judges), Bush would go with either Gonzales or a sitting US Senator from a state with a Republican governor. According to "the source", Bush "really, really, really wants" Gonzales on SCOTUS, but understands it would be very damaging to his political base.
Again, FWIW.
There are three reiable voices (Thomas, Scalia, and Rhenquist), two schizophrenic (O'Connor and Kennedy), and the rest are pure liberals who ALWAYS vote liberal.
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