All the more reason.
Posted on 09/05/2008 4:54:18 PM PDT by markedmannerf
While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree.
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This has been done in many different ways and I find it interesting. Ask people if the statement “From each according to their abilities - to each according to their needs” is from the US Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. It’s just plain scary how many people will pick one or the other.
No wonder I find these guys so offensive. Free Republic has deep constitutionalist roots.
I posted that liberals and socialists want to trample on the Constitution at every opportunity.
That is far from deluding myself.
Get a life.
They don’t understand our form of government or they want to be commies and be ruled by a tyrant.
Ignorance run amok.
These folks are irrational. But you knew that.
Obama. The great one will light the path to your personalized constitution.
All the more reason.
McCain says he wants judges to be "impartial", but says nothing about them following the Constitution. If one side in a case is seeking to violate the Constitution, the judge should be strongly prejudiced against that side.
Further, while "litigating from the bench" is a nice catchphrase, there are in fact times when so-called litigation from the bench is in fact entirely appropriate. Any rules that judges adopt to make a decision, however, must be give way to actual legislation.
By way of analogy: suppose a person is appointed to be the Official Jellybean Counter for a contest. His job is to determine how many jellybeans are in a jar.
If three contestants guess 5000, 5001, and 5002 and he discovers that the jar contains 5000 whole jellybeans and two half-jellybeans, and if nothing in the contest rules specifies how partial jellybeans are to be counted, the Jellybean Counter would be required to decide on a rule for counting half jellybeans. If before the next year's contest, however, the sponsors change the official rules to specify how such partial beans should be counted, the counter's job would be to count using those rules; the rules he'd drafted would be irrelevant.
The proper way to describe a judge's role is to say what the law is, not to decide what it will be.
Communists just like their candidate....
It gets clearer every day - this election is not about policies, it’s about the life or death of The Republic.
LOL! I'll bet you're right.
“They won’t even care if Obama is constitutionally qualified to be President”
Exactly.
Good job connecting the dots.
“......all enemies foreign and domestic.”
But they got us on all the gossip (and other assorted BS)on Oprah, MTV, Regis, Survivor, The Great Race etc etc...
I bet all their kids have the latest video games depicting the glory of grand theft auto, and any other wannabe special forces shoot ‘em up games...
It is a bankrupt following, devoid of any substance or future...
If that is what Obama is all about, all it will take to demote him into oblivion is that we all show up, and vote the other ticket...It’s really that simple...
The Obamanation IS going to show up and vote in droves like we have never seen before, they know this...
60 more day people...Just do it!
I hope that and also hope those (even on FR) who were thinking that the country could survive four years of Obambi easier than four years of John McCain read and reconsider. BHO is NOT a lesser of two evils! BHO is danger!
wow, when did he say this ??? very telling indeed...
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