In case you missed it–Conservative lawyers for McCain
- Posted by Beth on February 1st, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Candidates, General, John McCain, Journalism, Moonbats, Politics, SCOTUS conservatives · law · Republicans
I saw the news about Ted Olson at the Contentions blog last night, along with the news that Miguel Estrada, Steven Calabresi, and Charles Fried have endorsed John McCain.
What a buncha libs!!!1!1
/eyeroll
Here’s Ted Olson:
Take that, Mark Levin. You aren’t fit to shine any of those mens’ shoes, and neither are the other children on the playground.
Since people are building a strawman in homage to John McCain, regarding how they think he’ll appoint liberal judges to the bench, I’ll offer these quotes. Snagged from the comments at the Volokh Conspiracy:
New York Times, October 6, 1987.
“One should remember that, if our courts are free to go beyond the terms of our cherished Constitution to create new constitutional mandates that some might find acceptable, the Supreme Court in later years could use that free-roaming power to create mandates we don’t like. Neither course is sound. The only sound course for the courts is to apply the law as it’s written, not create it as they might wish it to be.
“Again the issue is not whether Bork is anti-abortion or anti-privacy. The question is this: Is Robert Bork unfit for the Supreme Court because he believes this decision [Roe v. Wade] is logically and constitutionally flawed? I think not.
“Of course we must protect minorities and even majorities from societal discrimination. But this doesn’t mean that, because he’s criticized the methodology the Court’s used, he’s any less committed to full and fair enforcement of the equal protection clause. All it means is that he’s a smart and outspoken enough legal scholar to point out some of the very real problems with the Court’s legal reasoning.”
Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1990.
Republican Sens. Phil Gramm of Texas and Don Nickles of Oklahoma each gave tentative endorsements to Souter. But Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona expressed frustration that the President had nominated a low-profile judge, apparently to avoid the kind of blood bath triggered by the nomination of Bork.
“Any first-year law student would tell you his chance of an eventual appointment to the Supreme Court is directly related to the paucity of writing or speaking on controversial issues,” McCain said acidly. “It gives us a largely unknown quantity in appointments to the bench.”
QED.
lowcoolant says:
“if your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him”
And people wonder why McCain keeps casually mentioning Romney’s “timetables.”
Because it works every time. That’s why. ;)
Terrye says:
I read Clarence Thomas’s bio and he much the same thing. The point should not be attitude toward abortion, it should be attitude toward the Constitution and how laws are made.
So now, when someone as respected as Olson comes along and supports McCain, does it matter? To some people, but to the real die hard McCain haters who think he is a power mad liberal out to wreck the party no endorsements will matter. They got their story and they are stickin to it. The babies.
PaulW says:
It’s amazing how many conservatives are actually FOR McCain, instead of, you know, the Whinebots who claim to be conservative but are really are in it for the ego and the money.
There’s a very good way to let Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and the rest understand how out-of-touch they are: stop buying their books. The quicker they go to the bargain bin at Borders the quicker they’ll understand it’s US, the voters, who know what the hell we are doing. ;)
This is Reason #45 why I’m not voting for Hillary: if I do it allows Ann Coulter to keep her job as a whiner for another 4 years. (I have roughly 59 reasons why I’m not voting for Hillary. I honestly don’t know how Ann got ranked that high on the list, I need to recheck it…)
JR says:
This is starting to become a battle for who really matters in the conservative movement. Is it the talking heads and writers, or is it the people who do the actual work (like Olsen) and the voters? In my mind, guys like Olsen, Estrada, and Calabresi hold greater weight than the pundits and talking heads like Limbaugh and Levin.
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