AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

What the conservatives are demanding now is that Obama select a republican for the supreme court. That's also ridiculous on the face of it, but the conservatives have lost it all, and they just can't live with that! They are now the No Party, and the conservatives are destroying their own party.

Most people with common sense believe our country needs a strong two party system, but what can we do when they are out to destroy themselves? Can't they see it?

Okay you got in your daily bitch about Republicans and conservatives. Those are noted.

What do you think about Thomas Sowell's opinion re the kind of Supreme Court justices that should or should not be appointed?

Thomas Sowell's opinion on who Obama should nominate is worth .02c. Obama will select someone by due diligence as he's done with most of the people he's selected for his administration - based solely on ability.

Are you agreeing with me then Walter? A judge can set aside a jury veridct if he rules that the jury was acting on emotion rather than evidence or if he considered a jury assessed penalty to be too lenient or too severe.

Foxfyre wrote:

Okay you got in your daily bitch about Republicans and conservatives. Those are noted.

What do you think about Thomas Sowell's opinion re the kind of Supreme Court justices that should or should not be appointed?

"my daily bitch", huh ? uh-huh.. noted.

now, here's what i want to know. out of the people who have already carped about the, as yet, unnamed, unspecified nominee for the scotus, why have you focused on thomas sowell's opinion ?

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:

Okay you got in your daily bitch about Republicans and conservatives. Those are noted.

What do you think about Thomas Sowell's opinion re the kind of Supreme Court justices that should or should not be appointed?

"my daily bitch", huh ? uh-huh.. noted.

now, here's what i want to know. out of the people who have already carped about the, as yet, unnamed, unspecified nominee for the scotus, why have you focused on thomas sowell's opinion ?

Because his opinion is appropriate for the subject of this thread.

What do you think about his opinion? Do you have a particular quarrel with it? What and why?

Because his opinion is appropriate for the subject of this thread.

Would you want to go into court to appear before a judge with "empathy" for groups A, B and C, if you were a member of groups X, Y or Z? Nothing could be further from the rule of law. That would be bad news, even in a traffic court, much less in a court that has the last word on your rights under the Constitution of the United States.

Appoint enough Supreme Court justices with "empathy" for particular groups and you would have, for all practical purposes, repealed the 14th Amendment, which guarantees "equal protection of the laws" for all Americans.

We would have entered a strange new world, where everybody is equal but some are more equal than others. The very idea of the rule of law would become meaningless when it is replaced by the empathies of judges.

Justice John Paul Stevens virtually destroyed the Constitution's restrictions on government officials' ability to confiscate private property in his 2005 decision in the case of "Kelo v. New London"-- 30 years after President Ford appointed him.

The biggest danger in appointing the wrong people to the Supreme Court is not just in how they might vote on some particular issues-- whether private property, abortion or whatever. The biggest danger is that they will undermine or destroy the very concept of the rule of law-- what has been called "a government of laws and not of men."