[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.

[Linda Frances]

Like or not romney has governed as a liberal, especially socially. How many people here questioned in past elections how democrats who say they are Christians, can vote for someone who is pro abortion and pro gay marriage/ gay adoption? Now if your not voting for Romney your criticized. Its so sad how people are compromising their values because of fear and no faith in God that if we rise up worked together we could take out romney. The fear and hate of one man, obama, is causing people to hold their nose and vote for someone who is a little less worse than obama
is pathetic.

Anyway, I have yet to hear Romney ask for social conservative votes, in fact he says he does not have to, that we will vote for him. At least Obama has enough respect for his voters to ask for their votes. Romney has yet to go to a single social con event Romney is calculated and arrogant. He’ assumes so con will cave. He's assuming too much.

Romney’s “accomplishments”.

1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA

2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA

3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly

4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA

5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.

6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming

7. Supported the Brady Bill

8. Implemented a state level “Assault” Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.

9. Supported TARP

10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)

11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)

12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.

13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers

[discostu]

You actually think Romney will elect anybody better?! BWAHASHAHAHAHAHAH

He’s a socialist dink just like Obie, they’ll nominate people of the same idiotic socialist mindset. and anybody that thinks otherwise is dumber than either of them.

Here’s the REAL facts:
They’re both socialist scumbags who have no freaking clue
Which ever one you elect will continue to grow the budget and the power of the fed
The only thing at question here is 4 or 8 more years

[SoConPubbie]

So you think Romney is better on judicial appointments than Obama?

His record as Governor shows he is not.

He nominated 27 out of 36 far-left, Progressive Liberal extremists to the bench.

Legal analysts say candidate Romney is different from Gov. Romney.

Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.

“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Mitt Romney’s actions as governor scream from the rooftops that he cannot be trusted with this most important of presidential responsibilities.”

Barber cites two specific examples of Romney’s radical appointments.

“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, ‘living, breathing’-minded judges to the bench,” Barber said.

“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”

“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

Baldwin agreed, citing Romney’s statements about the two requirements he actually used when selecting judges.

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”

Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:

“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”

Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”

“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”

Barber agreed with Baldwin’s assessment, adding that Romney’s record while governor is reason for concern, because the next president may radically reshape the federal bench.

[fishtank]

Oh yeah????

Rmoney is your go-to guy for conservatism????

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Here's your Rmoney Supreme Court picks!!

SC Justice Jeb Bush

SC Justice Orrin Hatch

SC Justice Jon Huntsman

NO THANK YOU!!!!

[tumblindice]

"Any FReeper who does not now work enthusiastically for the election of Mr. Romney ... " We wouldn't have to pack fudge or push stools, would we?

[svcw]

MB you are making great assumptions that Romney will appoint conservative or even “moderate” judges, he did not while governor, so why would he when president?

[xzins]

Scalia and Kennedy won’t retire with a blatant socialist in office. There is every reason to believe that Joe Biden, who will be 74 in 2016, intends to run for the presidency at that time.

Ronald Reagan ran his final campaign as a 74/5 year old.

JP Stevens served on the court until he was 90 years old, a republican appointee who waited to retire until an ultra-liberal came on the scene.

No one expects Ginsberg to retire on a conservative president anyway, but she won’t have to.

Both Romney and Obama are liberals.

So, Romney’s record of appointing liberals to the judiciary in massachusetts means we should worry about getting another John Paul Stevens by another liberal Republican.

[xzins]

Scalia and Kennedy won’t retire with a blatant socialist in office. There is every reason to believe that Joe Biden, who will be 74 in 2016, intends to run for the presidency at that time.

Ronald Reagan ran his final campaign as a 74/5 year old.

JP Stevens served on the court until he was 90 years old, a republican appointee who waited to retire until an ultra-liberal came on the scene.

No one expects Ginsberg to retire on a conservative president anyway, but she won’t have to.

Both Romney and Obama are liberals.

So, Romney’s record of appointing liberals to the judiciary in massachusetts means we should worry about getting another John Paul Stevens by another liberal Republican.

[donna]

So now Republicans are going to tell us that the Supreme Court is a wonderful branch of government that must be respected at all cost.

Even though the Supreme Court has taken away prayer, murdered 60 million unborn, and legalized sodomy.

Sorry, that’s not going to get me to vote for Mitt.

[luvbach1]

Freepers vowing not to vote for Romney come hell or high water, or socialism, or the collapse of the US say they are doing it out of principle.

[omega4412]

I don’t trust Romney but I have complete confidence in Obama to appoint justices as bad as Kagan or Sotomayor, or worse. And we can put pressure on Romney to appoint someone reasonable.

[old school]

Barring divine intervention or MASSIVE voter fraud, Mitt Romney will be the 45th President of the United States. And, it occurred to me that he can be a great President by virtue of the fact that he can bring us out of this deep depression that has been the Obama Administration. Do something to refresh this nation!

[trisham]

Sorry, but Romney’s record stinks. I don’t think that there is any reason to believe that he would do any better as president than he did as governor.

[mkjessup]

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

Well try on these facts:

When Romney was Governor, he appointed liberal 'Rats as judges even when he had more conservative Republicans he could appoint.

Romney was a liberal then, he's a liberal now, he will be a liberal for the rest of this days. You can paint the turd any color you want, but it is still a turd

Would Romney be an improvement over 0bama?

Sure, the same way Gorbachev was an improvement over Andropov and Chernenko.

[SECURE AMERICA]

As a conservative I have no more faith in Romney’s nominations then Obama’s.

[Sloth]

So we want another Souter?

[Mozilla]

This year’s election is Rinoism vs. Progressivism. Pick Your poison. Me I am voting for Virgil Goode or writing in Michelle Bachmann if he isn’t on the Kansas ballot. Really doesn’t matter now what anybody says about it because I have been against Romney sometime and just can’t come to vote for him. A bridge too far.

[montanajoe]

You can Blame, Shame and Flame but I will never vote for Romney.

Ive about had it with these posts by folks of your mind set thinking your idiot post will change my mind or others like me.

BTW I don't want Romney selecting replacements for Kennedy or Scalia he will appoint judges far less conservative than either based on hes record in Massachusetts..

He wont get to replace the liberal justices they will hang on till another Dim is elected president if Romney wins.

[montanajoe]

You can Blame, Shame and Flame but I will never vote for Romney.

Ive about had it with these posts by folks of your mind set thinking your idiot post will change my mind or others like me.

BTW I don't want Romney selecting replacements for Kennedy or Scalia he will appoint judges far less conservative than either based on hes record in Massachusetts..

He wont get to replace the liberal justices they will hang on till another Dim is elected president if Romney wins.

[P-Marlowe]

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!

BS. Hillary is too old for that kind of appointment (those go to judges who are in their late 40's and early 50's) and Hillary wouldn't take the position if it were offered. She wants to be president and she is probably praying for Romney to win so she can run in 2016.

On top of that Obama hates her guts and only chose her for Secretary of State so that it would make him look magnanimous.

Eric Holder would never get out of committee for any judicial appointment. He's a crook and everyone in Washington knows it. Obama would probably throw him under the bus, but Holder has access to all of Obama's FBI files.

Romney will probably appoint the next David Souter or John Paul Stevens or Earl Warren or all three.

Romney is probably going to win the election, but he is going to do it by appealing to democrats who are fed up with Obama and liberal crony capitalist pro-abortion Republicans. He is not going to win by getting my vote.