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GOP Gov. Decides After 'Immense Struggle' Not to Appeal Striking of PA Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Christian Post ^ | 05/27/2014 | Anugr

Posted on 05/27/2014 11:54:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Dr. Thorne
Here’s the immense struggle: “What impact will this have on my political career?”

Apparently, none. He's double-digits behind the democrat Tom Wolf and has been for months. Corbett's one and done.

21 posted on 05/27/2014 12:25:07 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: stevio

RE: I know what you’re saying, I’ll probably “hold my nose” and vote for Corbett in the fall. But damn.

Think about it this way. You are on a train that is approaching a clift.

There are three possibilities in choosing the driver:

1) One who will stop the train and reverse it.

2) One who will slow it down

3) One who will stay its course and its current speed

4) One who will accelerate the speed.

Unfortunately for PA, we don’t have a driver who meets criteria #1.

Corbett meets criteria #2 somehow.

Wolf on the other hand is #4.

There are some conservatives who simply say, let’s just let #4 be the driver so that we can all die together faster and be done with it.


22 posted on 05/27/2014 12:31:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Tom Corbett can never again pretend to be against the leftist agenda and say he opposes homosexual marriages, because he obviously does not oppose them.


23 posted on 05/27/2014 12:48:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: frogjerk
IMO: There are more Catholics in Hell than any other denomination or religion.

Would you be so kind as to restrict your attacks to the blithering idiot *individuals* who deserve them, and not throw ignorant smears on loads of innocent people (i.e. Catholics) who don't deserve to be sprayed with drive-by bullets, like that? Not every Catholic is a Corbett or a Pelosi, just as not every Protestant is a Wendy Davis or an Al Sharpton.
24 posted on 05/27/2014 12:49:42 PM PDT by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: lee martell

These courts have no constitutional power to impose laws on states, these Governors who refuse to fight it are complicit with the leftist agenda


25 posted on 05/27/2014 12:49:51 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind; stevio

There are some conservatives who simply say, let’s just let #4 be the driver so that we can all die together faster and be done with it.

I used to think like you do. But, that was years ago. I've seen and experienced what the #2 option has to offer. Like putting out a wellhead fire by dropping water on it, it just doesn't work. Now I'm firmly in the option #4 camp. Why? ... because the only way to put out an oil fire at the wellhead is with an explosion. Washington is a wellhead on fire. We need that explosion, and option #4 is best suited to provide it. Just be ready to cap the well when it blows, 'cause we're going to let it blow.


26 posted on 05/27/2014 12:58:18 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I fear we are about to find out. Wolf is WAAAAAAY out there on the Left.

And the most ironic thing is that his campaign commercials made him look like a Mitt Romney-clone businessman.

Can you say '1%er'?

27 posted on 05/27/2014 1:00:34 PM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: so_real
I think you share the same philosophy as this author ( who contributes to the National Review )


28 posted on 05/27/2014 1:02:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: frogjerk

Our Christian Pastors are increasingly not permitted to adhere to the biblical definition of marriage, under threat of being fully taxed as a profit organization or under threat of the Libertine Mafioso that will work at suing you into bankruptcy. This degree of in-your-face confrontation is encouraged by the Dems who are used as useful idiots supporting an ever-expanding agenda . Under this president, the boundaries of our Christian faith mean absolutely nothing in the legal sense.


29 posted on 05/27/2014 1:04:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: GeronL
These courts have no constitutional power to impose laws on states, these Governors who refuse to fight it are complicit with the leftist agenda

Short but sweet...speaking of CONSTITUTIONAL

You nailed it, thanks.

30 posted on 05/27/2014 1:06:36 PM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/CoverupIRS-LIES/CoverupDOJ-NO Justice--Etc Marxist Treason IMPEACH!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It makes no more sense to vote . . . for politicians or for policies. Every so often, the politicians pass some policy that seems sensible, but the courts just throw it out anyway. Now I’m waiting for the country to collapse in the hope that something better will replace it.


31 posted on 05/27/2014 1:08:00 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
Repeal Lawrence v. Texas.

I know what you mean, and agree. But court cases are not repealed; they are overturned.

32 posted on 05/27/2014 1:18:57 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Celebrating sodomy. Pathetic.


33 posted on 05/27/2014 2:05:43 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

Another GOP-er that cows and surrenders before the depraved leftist agenda?

Color me unsurprised. More evidence that there is just no point in voting anymore.


34 posted on 05/27/2014 2:21:06 PM PDT by greene66
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To: SeekAndFind

PA’S AG Kane (D) is the one who refused to prosecute a group of corrupt Philadelphia pols because they’re a) Democrats and b) minorities.


35 posted on 05/27/2014 2:26:04 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: SeekAndFind

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett “personally struggled immensely” with his decision “not to challenge a federal judge’s ruling overturning his state’s same-sex marriage ban...”.
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Is his “struggle” indicative of a conscience? He should just ignore the federal judges/courts since the feds have no constitutional basis for being involved in the matter. Then his conscience would be clear because he did the right thing.


36 posted on 05/27/2014 2:32:24 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does Corbett even have standing to appeal?


37 posted on 05/28/2014 9:00:27 AM PDT by Michael1977
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