McCain seeks to quash fears on the right

Financial Times via Drudge Report ^ | May 6, 2008 | Andrew Ward

[RDTF]

John McCain promised on Tuesday to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and for other judicial vacancies, seeking to quash doubts among some Republicans about his conservative credentials.

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[Baladas]

Good idea on Juan’s part - they are getting very shaky due to his latest comments.

He wants to be POTUS, not Mexico.

[dirtboy]

John McCain promised on Tuesday to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court and for other judicial vacancies, seeking to quash doubts among some Republicans about his conservative credentials.

Next step - figure out how to skip out appearing before La Raza.

[B Knotts]

McCain seeks to quash fears on the right

[Names Ash Housewares]

Fear isn’t the right word.

TRUST

And he will never have that fully from conservatives.

However, he can make some pledges now and take some action too. He IS a sitting senator afterall.

I am voting for him, but I would rather feel better about it by November.

[xcamel]

sneeze... sounds like horse.....spit....

[Caipirabob]

McCain seeks to quash fears on the right

The right side of Mexico? He's got you covered, amigos!

[romanesq]

Good job. Now take illegal immigration on and we might have something for ya.

[MrsPatriot]

The question is, what is his definition of “conservative?”

[Ingtar]

If I trusted what he said, I wouldn’t be voting for the Constitution Party in November.

[spacejunkie01]

so far I’ve gotten 2 fundraiser letters from him and where it asks you to sign (after putting in all your credit card stuff) I just wrote a little diatribe about how I’d love to send money if he would just BE a conservative and quit all his liberal nonsense;fire juan hernandez, quit saying we torture, quit talking about closing gitmo, etc etc.

[Navy Patriot]

Nah, Juan McCainiez can't be trusted.

[TomGuy]

Two threads from yesterday:

McCain still has immigration on his future agenda

Related article, with some statements by McCain:

McCain courts Hispanic voters

05/05/2008 2:04:29 PM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 38 replies · 547+ views CNN ^ | May 05, 2008 | CNN Sen. John McCain said Monday the tenor of the immigration debate has hurt the way Hispanic voters view the Republican Party. "I believe the majority of Hispanics share our view that the border must be secured, and the border must be secured first," McCain said in Phoenix, Arizona. "But they also want us to have an attitude which I think most Americans do, that these are God's children and they must be taken care of." The senator from Arizona used Cinco de Mayo as a launching pad for a new Spanish-language Web site on Monday, and he emphasized his stance...

[nonliberal]

I am voting for him, but I would rather feel better about it by November.

If you are already voting for him, why should he care how you feel about it. HE ALREADY HAS YOUR VOTE!

[Towed_Jumper]

Hey Juan, that’s nice...but what about sealing the border from illegal aliens and stop trying to stomp out the 2nd Amendment for starters?

[BloodOrFreedom]

John McCain promised on Tuesday to nominate conservative judges to the Supreme Court

We'll see how THAT works when they have to stand before the largely democrat-controlled senate. We all saw how much trouble the libs gave Bush's nominees

[NonValueAdded]

Well, he must be getting sound advice then. The specter (NPI) of a RAT appointing Justices to SCOTUS is enough for us to choke down another excrement sandwich and vote for Juan over Hillary or Barry.

[Amendment10]

If McCain and conservatives were up to speed with the Constitution and its history, not only would they understand that the honest interpretation of the Constitution is decidedly conservative without needing more conservative justices, but they would understand that there's a major need for a shakeup in the USSC.

Although I despise activist judges as much as McCain does, McCain either doesn't understand or is ignoring the main problem with our courts.

The biggest problem with the courts is actually the people. The people are the problem because ignorance of the Constitution and how the government is supposed to work is epidemic. Widespread constitutional ignorance is evidenced by the following links.

http://tinyurl.com/npt6t
http://tinyurl.com/hehr8

The consequence of widespread constitutional ignorance is that the people are impotent to stop activist judges from walking all over our constitutional freedoms.

The way that we got into this mess with respect to activist judges versus constitutional ignorance, in my opinion, is as follows.

Judicial activism took a turn for the worst in the days of FDR's dirty politics. This is because FDR got the USSC to give the green light to his constitutionally unauthorized New Deal programs; the Court scandalously politically repealed 10th A. protected state powers in order to give FDR what he wanted. And by politically nuking 10th A. protected state powers, FDR foolishly created a political situation where there's now "nothing" in the Constitution that stops corrupt justices from allowing the feds to interefere with state affairs. And decades of activist justices ignoring 10th A. protected state powers has ultimately weakened traditional family values.

This post (<-click), while addressing tax issues, provides more details as to how the 10th A. stood in the way of FDR establishing his New Deal programs.

And this post (<-click), while addressing abortion, gives examples of how corrupt justices then began using FDR's "license" to ignore 10th A. protected state powers to eventually stifle traditional family values. The USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion and today's suppression of ID discussion in public school classrooms are examples of this corruption.

Again, because of widespread ignorance of the Constitution and its history, it seems that the best that response that people have given to Constitution-ignoring activist judges is to sit on their hands with their mouths wide open.

The bottom line is that, instead of putting all the blame for the USSC's injustices on activist justices, the people need to reconnect with the Founder's intentions for the division of federal and government state powers. The people then need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding that the feds start respecting the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, particularly where wrongly ignored 10th A. protected state powers are concerned. This not only includes allowing religion-related discussions in public schools while respecting people's 14th A. protections, for example, but also putting a stop to all constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes.

[DaveyB]

If McCain wants my vote he should name an ultra conservative VP and begin to look ill, maybe clutch his chest every now and then.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I am voting AGAINST Obamanation or the Hildabeast and he knows it.

What choice do I have? The time is well passed now for bitching about it.

However, McCain can build some much needed mojo for himself by taking action in the months to come.