In Case You Don't Like Romney... A Challenge To Every FReeper

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[MindBender26]

In Case You Don't Like Romney...

Columnist Andrew McCarthy gives us what probably is the most important question regarding the upcoming presidential election …

“If Romney wins the nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy. For my friends who may have hesitation on that score, I’d just ask you to keep four things in mind:

1.. Justice Scalia just turned 78

2.. Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year

3.. Justice Breyer will be 76 in August

4.. Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago and has had cancer twice.

Whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court — in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.

If you don’t think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you’re smokin’ something funky….”

So for anybody who is thinking of not voting because your favorite didn’t get nominated, or writing in a candidate who can't win ... just imagine this possibility:

'SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ERIC HOLDER'

Did that get your attention!

[MindBender26]

Scalia and Kennedy could retire at any time, but are holding on to prevent an Obama appointment. It's a bitch to go to work every day when you are 78, but they are doing so to prevent Obama radicalizing the court.

Any FReeper who does not now work enthusiastically for the election of Mr. Romney is supporting the nomination of Eric Holder.... or Hillary Clinton to SCOTUS!

Like it or not, folks, those are the facts.

[Gay State Conservative]

There are 100 important reasons to vote for Romney in spite of the fact that he's far from being the perfect candidate and the SCOTUS is right up there near the top.Those he might nominate are sure to be at least somewhat less odious,and very possibly would be much less odious,than either The Ugly Lesbian or The Wise Latina.

[RWGinger]

Excellent point
I can’t imagine any true freeper would still not vote for Romney as a protest
let me rephrase tht
I HOPE there aren’t any freepers who would not vote for vote against Romney as a protest.

[kevcol]

Like it or not, folks, those are the facts

Ginsberg is the only one I can see being replaced in the next 4 years. Justices regularly hold on into their 80's. Willard will appoint liberals just like Hussein. There is not SCOTUS motivation to vote for Willard IMO. The more important election re: SCOTUS is 2016.

[wideawake]

Reagan gave us O’Connor and Bush 41 gave us David Souter - Romney needs to give assurances that those kind of horrible mistakes will not reoccur in order to give the base confidence.

[ziravan]

Records count. Romney’s record of Court appointments doesn’t lend well to this argument. His record indicates that his choices wouldn’t be substantially different than Obama’s.

In fact, if Romney wants to bring the base on board, he could do so with a credible promise to appoint only strict constructionists to the Court.

How to make credible promises on an etch-a-sketch platform is a problem I don’t know how to solve.

[ilovesarah2012]

“UPDATE. Some of the troubling parts of the article for those claiming below “oh it’s just Massachusetts”.
Troubling Part #1

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Romney, despite his opposition to same-sex marriage, in May selected for a district court judgeship Stephen S. Abany, a former board member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association who organized the group’s opposition to a 1999 bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. Just two days before the nomination, Romney was lamenting the liberal tilt of the state’s bench, telling Fox News that ‘’our courts have a record here in Massachusetts, don’t they, of being a little blue and being Kerry-like.”
Talk about doing one thing and saying another.
Troubling Part #2

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Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late 1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994 Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her application for the bench, describes herself as a longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group that advocates for expanded gay rights in the Catholic Church and society generally.
Great. Nice moderate choice there, Mitty.
Troubling Part #3

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Romney, asked if he has engaged in any horse-trading with Democratic politicians, said: ‘’So far I have not ever given any weight whatsoever to whether I think someone can make it through the Governor’s Council. I send them individuals who I feel are highly qualified and have the right judicial temperament related to crime and punishment.”
I was about to give him some leniency due to the makeup of the council, but he says it does not matter. He only cared about crime, but not other judicial issues? Wow.”

http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/mikeks/2007/dec/20/romney_appointed_liberal_judges_in_massachusetts

Like I keep saying, it just comes down to hating Obama more.

[Servant of the Cross]

What Happens to the Supreme Court if Obama Gets Re-Elected?

[mnehring]

Yep. Imagine these five words.- Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder

[big'ol_freeper]

Mitt Romney selecting Supreme Court justices only marginally worries me less than Hussein picking them.

[TexasCajun]

Nice reminder.

Romney qualifies as anyone but Obamah.

Electing a new wave of Conservative Young Guns will soften the sting of voting for Romney.

[MindBender26]

Complete wishful thinking. Most do not retire; they die. Anyone over 70 can die any day and no one thinks it is unsuual.

Just pray they make it to the afternoon of January 20th!

[Williams]

Pray God nothing happens to permit Obama to replace any Justice before January. Even Ginsburg being replaced with a 40 year old new liberal Justice is a disaster.

I’d also mention the US Attorneys. When you have a dem run state, they can be the only hope for justice. Without them you live in fear of corruption and persecution.

[DoughtyOne]

So the fact that Romney appointed mostly liberal judges in Ma., shouldn’t concern us at all right?

Sorry, but I’ve been watching the Republicans implement the Leftist agenda for so long, I’m not able to look the other way any longer.

I don’t want Obama, but you’re kidding yourself if you think I’m going out and work for another Democrat. And that is just what Mitt Romney is.

I’m going to work for the implementer of RomneyCare?

Look, if you want to smoke that stuff, at least lay off it for a day or so before posting here.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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MindBender ...


I guess that I'm starting to sound like a broken record here ...

While yours is a great thought ... the importance of the four (4) SCOTUS Justice nominations ...

the primary fallacy ...

is "Myth Romney" himself. Period.




We TEA Party Conservatives have watched in "bitter anguish and frustration" at the ruling GOP E-RINO Yacht-Club boys ...

ALWAYS -- ALWAYS -- ALWAYS ...

screw-us over ...



They cry and weep on TV ... when they should be fighting ...



"This ONE thing I know" ...

and EVERYONE AT FREE REPUBLIC can "take this to the bank" ....



"If" Myth Romney is actually sworn is as POTUS ...

using the APOSTATE Joseph Smith bible (of course) ...

he'll make Bush-41's broken promise of "Read My Lips No New Taxes" look like Davy Crocket at the Alamo ...



We will all be "amazed" how "SEVERELY" Myth will make us all look like BOZO the CLOWN FOOLS ...

Period.



Four (4) new SCOTUS Justices ?

Nominated by the PATHELOGICAL-LIAR-JERK that Romney is ?

Hell ... you might as well let Henry Waxman nominate those new Justices ... or Harry Reid for that matter ...




"Mr Romney" can kiss Joseph Smith's pinky ring finger, for all that I'm concerned ...




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[Randy Larsen]

I will make my final decision in the ballot box. Until then I will study all info available to help me decide.

Fair enough?

[TexasCajun]

There will always be bitter clingers

[SENTINEL]

Electing a baal worshiping cult leader as president will anger God. Romney has a record of appointing liberal judges.

I'm writing in George Washington and praying for the Justice's continued good health.

[NE Cons]

Totally agree.... His first appointment will be someone like Holder or vanJones.. And the GOap will be cowered into going along, for fear of being called racist- by the left/media

Then he'll select a radical Muslim female, in the name of diversity Then these folks on FR telling us to NOT vote for Romney will be pulling their hair out, too late, damage done.

[Little Ray]

Bad news.

Based on Romney’s record of appointing judges in Massachusetts, he will, most likely, appoint “conservatives” like David Souter or “strict constructionists” like Harriet Miers. Or worse. Romney did much worse in the Massachusetts.

If I were not already voting against Obama, this would not convince me to vote for Romney.