May 1, 2008


“McCain to talk judges in North Carolina”

Filed under: Election 2008, Judicial Nominations, McCain
By Feddie (Email) @ 12:25 pm

CNN”s Political Ticker has this report:

On the day Democrats hold a crucial primary in North Carolina, John McCain will venture to the Tar Heel State to lay out his vision on what kind of judges he would appoint to the bench.

The McCain campaign tells CNN’s Dana Bash the Arizona senator will deliver a speech next Tuesday at Wake Forrest University designed to help bolster his standing among conservatives with regard to the issue of judges.

Many conservatives took issue with McCain in 2005 for signing on to the so-called “gang of 14″ in the Senate — a bipartisan group of senators who sought to find a compromise on some of President Bush’s judicial nominees.

Oh, and be sure to read the accompanying comments. Here are just a few gems:

The last thing we need are more stone age thinking right wing nut jobs sitting on the bench for life.

Is this the same McCain that was a POW? What was that he said about the USA? And isn’t this the same McCain that was involved with the Keating 5? But, guess what, he wears a flag pin!!!!!!! And the judges he appoints will be of the same caliber.

He`ll appoint conservative judges to go along with Roberts, flushing out the more liberal ones. ———- Heaven help us all when this happens. Big Corporations will win——————

All we need are to more Justices like Bush picked. They will start giving corporations the right to vote. For all of the democrats who say they won’t vote if their candidate doesn’t win the nomination think about having the Supreme Count controlled by the EXTREME RIDIACAL RIGHT. Is that what you want? I want a court that is balanced not an ideology base of conservatives. I want a court that returns to the constitution.

Clearly, they all have dizzying intellects.


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  1. Joe Says:

    Good.

    Frankly I trust McCain more on this than I trust Obama and Hillary. The part that confuses me is why fellow conservatives don’t get that–given the track records of both Obama and Hillary.

    Let’s call it the Right Stuff vs. the “Wright” stuff.

    PJ O’Rourke had this comment:

    Some people say John McCain isn’t conservative enough. But there’s more to conservatism than low taxes, Jesus, and waterboarding at Gitmo. Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. Given what screw-ups we humans are in these respects, conservatism is also a matter of sense of humor. Heard any good quips lately from Hillary or Barack?

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/006dgrlw.asp?pg=2

  2. Sage Says:

    OK, but where–other than the military–does McCain show any serious respect or reverence for traditional American institutions? His laundry list of caustic, hateful comments toward anyone seeking to maintain America’s industrial, demographic, and cultural institutions is long indeed. We can go down PJ’s little list if you’d like: the man has little self-discipline, displays almost no sense of duty toward the party and movement on which he depends, is wildly irresponsible on key issues like free speech and immigration, certainly has little brief for good order, and has such disdain for the traditions of our civilization that they are a matter of complete indifference to him.

    His “conservative” voting record is only conservative if you throw the last tenty years in with the last eight, as if the severe about-face he’s managed is of no consequence. It also ignores the fact that he has expressly stated he does not care about “social” issues, and has demonstrated nothing but contempt for the will of the American people–and even basic fairness and democratic procedure–in his attempts to ram mass third-world immigration down our throats, all while denouncing his critics as racist boobs beyond the pale of mainstream politics. You know, those “extra-curricular” types he goes on about. This is a man who has sacrificed principle for political expedience over and over, and the reason for it is that he has no real political philosophy beyond what is of benefit to the career of John McCain–and you express deep trust in such a man, when he couldn’t even be counted on to support the Republican majority on a matter of procedure, which was critical to the installation of genuine conservative judges? Come on.

    McCain might be better on judges than a radical leftist like Obama, but that is saying almost nothing in his favor and is, in any event, totally irrelevant to the question of whether the man is in any meaningful sense a conservative. I recognize absolutely nothing about McCain in that long list of conservative qualities PJ has amassed, and it is as though McCain’s supporters believe they are under no compunction whatsoever to actually answer the criticism that McCain 1) despises real conservatives, 2) despises the Republican rank-and-file, and 3) is an absolute PC coward on any issue of salience to his friends in the media.

    I “trust” Hillary more than Obama, but that doesn’t make her a conservative, and McCain doesn’t suddenly become a serious conservative when you stand him next to radical leftists like Obama.

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