Posted on 06/29/2008 4:07:14 AM PDT by NoLibZone
A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right
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This is the line they’ll use to keep the Clinton females in the Democratic camp. The fact is that the court will only move to the righ as much as the Democratic Senate will allow. They still have to confirm.
A win by Obama will push the Supreme Court to the left...but of course, that doesn’t bother the Washington Post.
Well DUH!
Indeed.
If the Congress cared about America and had a spine
(two very very unlikely events), a series of impeachments
would move the Supreme court to the right.
The justices considered most likely to retire are Stevens and Ginsburg, how much further left can he go?
Actually a McCain win will keep the Court less left than under Obama. Anyone thinking McCain will appoint conservative justioes needs some major drug rehab. McCain justices will be big govt, pro-illegal/anti-American, and very pro-free trade/Commie China
Well, lets see:
Gerald Ford gave us John Paul Stevens,
Ronald Reagan gave us Anthony Kennedy,
and ...
GHW Bush gave us David Souter.
The Washington Post argument doesn’t hold water - you never know what a Republican President will do.
Spot on! I think I read that one of McCain’s advisors is former NH Senator Warren Rudman. Rudman was instrumental in misinforming Bush 1 when he nominated David Souter for the USSC.
What type of Senate did each of them have to work with when making these picks? Also look at what happened to Robert Bork when he was nominated.
Thank you for the first statement I've seen about the "Reality" of what type of judge(s) McCain will most likely appoint!
This is one of the most absurd reasons I've seen any of you LOTE's use to justify voting for this rino because of his potential SC picks being right of what Obama's picks would be, when they'll most likely resemble Souter's or Kennedy's.
If only there was a reward in Congress for SAVING AMERICA,
rather than the usual financial kickbacks for “selling it out”.
How, if the next U.S. Senate is still a majority of both Democrats and “RINO” Republicans? The U.S. Senate truly needs a majority of actual conservative U.S. Senators, if any conservative judges are actually going to be successfully appointed to any and all future vacancies.
This is why that it is imperative that John McCain become the next president. If Obama picks the next SC judges, this country is doomed.
That was my first thought! (and this is my first post!)
Great post!
I thought Fred Thompson was going to be one of McCain's SCOTUS advisors? He helped Roberts and Alito get on board IIRC.
One thing is for sure, if McCain is elected and Ginsberg and Stevens bail, and McCain nominates and wins on two conservatives, that alone may be worth all the other idiocy we are likely to get from Maverick....maybe...
McChurian is our best chance given the givens . . .
however, that chance is . . . somewhat equivalent to a candle’s chance in a hurricane.
He will help insure that yet another dyed-in-the-wool globalist or 3 are firmly entrenched in the Court.
The JUDGE we need to be playing to & pleading to as a country is FAR above the whole lot of the DC nest of globalist/socialist/Marxist traitors . . . FAR, FAR ABOVE the whole planet.
“How, if the next U.S. Senate is still a majority of both Democrats and “RINO” Republicans? The U.S. Senate truly needs a majority of actual conservative U.S. Senators, if any conservative judges are actually going to be successfully appointed to any and all future vacancies.”
Kills the third party argument as well.
Fine.. if the dim controlled senate (assumption on my part) doesn’t want to confirm a perfectly legitimate candidate, then let the seat remain vacant until they do.
Wrong. A Win by McCain Could Push the Court farther to Right.
We have only two choices before us:
Obama, who will most assuredly appoint radical leftists to the SC.
McCain, who will probably do better than Obama, at least somewhat, or maybe much better.
It’s not an ideal situation, but it is reality.
Last week, we were one Liberal Supreme Court Justice away from losing our US Constitution 2nd Amendment Right to keep and bear arms! ...one vote !!
No way in hell, do I want the Most Liberal Democrat in the Senate getting a chance to put another liberal on the Supreme Court!
How about defending our rights (real ones) and our Constitution?
So did 90+ other senators at the time. From both parties. The only ones that ever have a fuss kicked up over them are conservative ones.
Jesse Helms used to drool over Madeleine K. Notbright but it didn’t make her any smarter.
Absolutely. McCain is simply Obama with an R next to his name. Let's face it, we're doomed. Throw in the towel. Stick a fork in this republic.
Alas and alack.
Gloom, despair, agony.
The Democrat led Senate confirmed Roberts and Alito whom I think history will prove are more conservative than Rehnquist and O'Connor whom they replaced. But, to be sure, replacing a far leftist like Ginsburg or Breyer with someone along the lines of Roberts and Alito will be a tall order.
I think McCain would win the battle handily if he nominated either a woman (considering the court would be left womanless when Ginsburg retires) or a Hispanic (a first timer would be a big story). I know Bush tried that Hispanic man-can't recall his name, but the guy had a track record. McCain needs someone like Roberts or Alito - soft spoken, non-threatening demeanors and brilliant minds who can run circles around the Judicial Comm. like Roberts and Alito did.
Let the Democrats demogogue the issue if they want and badger the nominees a la Clarence Thomas. That will only turn off the public and give McCain a platform to look strong and reasonable while the Democrats look petty and partisan.
That's because "left" is the correct and proper order of the universe. "Right" is the mindset of the bitter people who cling to their guns and Bibles.
You are correct in your assertion that a McCain Presidency will most likely tip the Supreme Court back to where it should be; blind to political leanings and taking the Constitution at it's word and original intent. "Living Document?" My Aunt Fanny!
And THIS is why elections matter.
Sincerely,
Diana in Wisconsin
welcome to FR
A pleasing thought.
NOT IN THE LORD.
However, overcoming and success usually requires some level of alertness to concrete realities.
I’m curious . . .
is it your contention that McChurian is
NOT a
—globalist
—socialist
—Marxist?
This is a good reason to vote for McCain. In addition, the DemonRats will be so infuriated and disrupted by an unexpected McCain victory, that they might no be able to advance their agenda any where as well as they think they will be.
Or not.
A win by the socialist Obama would undermine the Constitution and our country.
[Kills the third party argument as well.]
The Pubs and Dems are one party, near as I can tell and the conservatives of America need a conservative party to represent them, not the GOP left for sure.
What do you do, in your own thinking,
with George Soros’ vigorous support of McChurian?
Johnny Mac reportedly met privately with Hillary supporters at his Virginia headquarters and, in response to a question about judges, said “he supported Bill Clinton with both Ginsberg and Breyer.”
http://briandell.blogspot.com/2008/06/mccain-tells-hillary-supporters-he-was.html
Notice the writer’s perspective: “push the Court to the right?”
A McCain victory could PULL the Court to the right.
Only a leftist would consider a rightward move a push.
I thought the same thing about the Bush’s, W and H but what did we get Sissy boy and Kennedy, before then Stevens by Ford jeeeeesh.
WA PO strikes again with an article stupid enough to garner them a Darwin Award! Yep, a Darwin Award for the stupidiest Corporate Suicide ever self inflicted. This argument isn’t about Left and Right anymore: Thsi argument is about WRONG! and RIGHT!
The way that both parties have corrupted our government makes it absolutely imperative that the SC not be turned over to the left. Heller is a perfect case in point.
No matter who is elected-bogus nominations will need to be accorded the same treatment that was seen with the Miers nomination and the "comprehensive illegal sellout" fiasco.
Anyone who says that they aren't going to vote against Obama(for McCain) in order to send the GOP a message is cutting off their nose to spite their face.
One of the most compelling reasons I’ll vote for the WORST Republican nominee since 1972.
WAY,WAY LEFT!!! Get off of it, Wake UP! He could put his Idiot Wife Michelle on the Supreme Court and/or William Ayres and/or Eric Holder, or (BARF TSUNAMI WARNING!) Dennis KOOKINICH or Lanny Davis, even Rev Jeremiah Wright!!!!! Have a Great Sunday and dont ever underestimate your enemy ever again!!!!!
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