Even if you doubt that might happen, consider this: we are one Supreme Court justice away from a radical and permanent alteration of the Constitution from a doctrine of limited government to a tool of social democracy. Romney may not be precisely inclined to support "strict constructionists", but Obama will certainly appoint radicals.
Beware your presumptions. I don't know too many who are planning to sit it out. We will definitely vote down-ticket, and many will vote 3rd party for the presidency.
Not buying it. If you want to get a glimpse of the kinds of Justices a President Romney would appoint, look at the judges Governor Romney appointed. And an energized Republican-led Senate would not let Obama get away with much.
“Even if you doubt that might happen, consider this: we are one Supreme Court justice away from a radical and permanent alteration of the Constitution from a doctrine of limited government to a tool of social democracy.”
Just say no. Like at Saratoga, King’s Mountain and Yorktown. Grow a backbone, instead of settling for the scraps that roll off of Karl Rove’s greasy chins.
“The essential problem with doing what many of us are sorely tempted to do (sit it out) is that Obama is not likely to be a “lame-duck” anything. He is unlike any President we have ever had, and the full weight of the organized Left is poised to move hard and fast behind him if he is re-elected. They mean business this time, and by “business” I mean a power grab beyond imagining, facilitated by a planned insurrection.
Even if you doubt that might happen, consider this: we are one Supreme Court justice away from a radical and permanent alteration of the Constitution from a doctrine of limited government to a tool of social democracy. Romney may not be precisely inclined to support “strict constructionists”, but Obama will certainly appoint radicals. “
I’ve voted for R’s that I agreed with less and less over the years, because I hoped they wouldn’t be as bad as the D’s. Some were.
Now the establishment thinks they can put one up who is clearly as bad as the D, and scare us into voting for him by saying the judges he would appoint might not be as bad as the ones Obama would appoint?
We can look at his record and judges, and see that they are and would be as bad.
Talk is cheap for politicians at election time.
They want conservatives to rally behind Romney because of his words?
There isn’t ANYTHING he can say that would make me vote for him.
They want my vote?
They should have paid attention before they took out the conservative candidates.
I hope Newt wins.
I’d settle for Santorum.
I won’t vote for Mitt.
The essential cause of Obama not likely to be a lame-duck anything would be if many of us sat out the election rather than actively vote ABOOR with the goal of making the winner have the smallest plurality possible. Maybe we couldn't survive, as the Chicken Littles claim, another four years of Obama, but maybe we could, especially if the conservative side of the Republican party grows stronger.
One thing for sure: the Republican party would die if its most powerful representative advanced and defended nationalized health care, on-demand tax-funded abortion, forced acceptance of open homosexuality throughout society, and cap-and-trade "save the planet" environmental regulation. Regardless of wishful thinking that Romney might come around (liberals are so good at that! NOT!) it's what anyone who votes FOR Romney, would be authorizing the Republican party TO DO.
That is a losing proposition, period. Guaranteed.
Regardless of what picture the MSM presents, at least half, likely much more, of productive Americans think Obama's a crappy president and think statist liberalism stinks. If enough people vote ABOOR (anbody but Obama or Romney), whichever socialist who won would have a plurality; assessing Romney, I'd prefer Obama won with, say, 40 percent of the vote (unless a really good 3rd party candidate, like Palin or Newt, jumped in -- there'd be zero to lose and everything to gain -- no guts, no glory). A president opposed by the majority of actual voters would be weakened politically.
As for the SC, look at Romney's record. Thinking he'd appoint anything other than an activist liberal mindset is wishful thinking.