Posted on 09/02/2008 9:51:37 PM PDT by kellynla
His inexperience was more of a concern than defections from female Hillary supporters. But McCain was already doing well with older women.
And exactly how are any conservative judicial appointees by a President McCain supposed to truly have any serious chances of actually happening, if leftists stay in the majority in the next U.S. Senate?
They don’t have to be in a majority in the senate and there is no chance they will decline below the 40% necessary to veto judicial appointments. They have proven that they will use that status to stop Constitutionalist non-bolshevik judges. Republicans are more energetic and more effective in all conservative areas when they are “in opposition.” In the majority they are only concerned with “getting theirs.” I don’t want to see Republicans in the majority ever again or a Democrat President.
Well, I look at this way: the ones that are on the brink of retiring are liberal justices ... if they go and are not replaced, that's a de facto increase in the percentage of conservative judges and shifts the balance on the court. Even with a majority in the Senate, the Democrats can't nominate justices; they can only provide their "advice and consent". So, if McCain nominates someone they don't like and the nominee is put on hold or voted down, it's still a net pick-up for the conservative portion of the court.
The retiring liberals won’t be replaced by conservatives. So long as the Democrats are 40% in the senate= less actually, because two or three “RINOs” will vote with them- they willnot permit a conservative judge to be approved and McCain, rather than leave a seat empty will appoint a 2nd or 3rd pick who will be more what the Democrats want. At best we will get more Souters. If I thought he would leave a seat vacant before he would nominate a liberal, I would be more optimistic. There is no constitutional requirement that there be 9 Justices. There can be 1 or there can be 1000. I don’t think there is a Republican now living who would not keep naming less and less conservative Justices until he got one through. To change that “tradition” will require a Democrat president and a Republican congress unwilling to allow Liberal judges. The Democrat would leave a seat vacant. That won’t happen. Republicans offer token opposition then vote them through. The Stupid Party, remember? Republicans only do conservative things, especially with money, when they are in “opposition.” In the majority they just shovel my money and yours into their pockets and out the door.
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