Posted on 10/04/2018 11:00:51 AM PDT by Jean2
They know this would shift SCOTUS to 6-3 conservative and possibly 7-2 if Breyer kicks off.
If the Democrats take the licking on Nov. 6 that they have richly earned, possibly they might be chastened. Possibly.
Gorsuch just replaced Scalia. No loss for Dems. Brett is worse. But he is not the true “swing vote.” Kavs is too moderate. AMY BARRETT will cause violence by the left, because it would mark the end of Roe v. Wade.
Because they thought they were going to win in November so they wanted delay
Maybe, but that was a necessary risk. Trump needed to do that to prove to voters that he was serious about being conservative by naming conservative judges he'd consider for the courts.
Trump might not have won in 2016 if he had not issued that list.
-PJ
It now looks likely that the Republicans hold the Senate and even gain in November. If that happens (and the House holds as well) it will make some things possible.But the “gorilla in the room” is “the MSM.” It has been getting away with murder. The “madness” you rightly fear is enabled by the MSM, and would be impossible without it.
You will say, “the MSM is a result of the First Amendment and is immutable.” But as Scalia explained, “the freedom . . . of the press” means something different from “freedom of the press.” That is, laws against libel existed before the First Amendment was ratified, and they were not overturned by 1A. “Freedom of the press” would have been absolute; the freedom of the press” is not.
- for commercial (not philosophically justified) reasons, journalism is about bad news - particularly, bad news about American society. Journalism is negative about society, knowingly.
- Yet journalism claims to be objective, which logically could only be true if negativity is objectivity.
- The conceit that “negativity is objectivity” is cynicism. Ergo, journalism is cynical about American society.
- Cynicism towards “A” is naiveté towards “not A.” Thus, cynicism is not simply “extreme” skepticism, it is unbalanced skepticism.
- As the first page of Paine’s Common Sense makes clear, the term “society” has been distorted into a synonym for “government” but that makes no more sense than, in Lincoln’s terms, calling a tail a leg and then claiming that a dog has 5 legs. In fact, they are near opposites - society being a blessing, and government being (at best) a necessary evil.
- American mainstream journalism is cynical about American society and naive about government. And so is any Democrat, or any other socialist.
- America has "a free press” but - because in part of the Associated Press in particular and wire services generally - American presses are not independent. They admit they are “associated.” It is a massive violation of the Sherman AntiTrust Act. And also, arguably, RICO.
The MSM can be tamed. It must be tamed.
They are certain he will vote to overturn Roe v Wade.
Don't disagree with that sentiment, but a new strategy may be needed for the next nominee.
Trump no longer needs to prove he'll choose a conservative, and its now quite clear the left has been looking for dirt on his list of potential nominees since he announced them.
Rather than choose someone the left expects, Trump may need to choose someone not already on their radar to prevent another orchestrated attack.
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