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Post by Slyoldawg on Mar 18, 2016 18:59:04 GMT -5
Think about this!
A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won't vote for Trump if he's the eventual nominee and may note vote at all.
Just to put something into perspective: Justice Scalia's seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75.
These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.
Think about that ... 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are deemed to be lacking in mandate.
Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision and that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.
Everyone declaring that they won't vote for a particular candidate, if he turns out to be the GOP nominee, please realize this: If Hillary Clinton wins and thus gets to make these appointments, you surely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court for the rest of your life. Ever.
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Post by rah on Mar 19, 2016 6:01:27 GMT -5
Elections are usually not about voting for who you want but choosing between what you believe to be the lesser of two evils or IOW voting to keep the candidate who represents your own values the least out of office. I will hold my nose and vote for Trump if he is the Republican nominee. The way I see it those that claim to be conservatives and will not vote are in effect voting for Hillary. It's that simple.
I don't think there will be five SCOTUS vacancies during a single presidential term. Almost certainly three and possibly four but five is not that likely IMO. However even if a powerful Conservative does win and fills the vacancies with who ever he wants I doubt any of them will be the Constitutional Constructionist that Scalia was. We conservatives will miss him very much no matter who fills his slot I suspect.
Glen Beck is one of those leading the charge of Cruz or nothing. Though I agree with him on most issues on this one he is dead wrong and those that follow his advise will be hurting themselves in the long run.
A pox on the Republican establishment. Karl Rove and his cronies can rot in hell as far as this conservative is concerned. They are the ones that have brought us to the current circumstances. They had ample warning. The Tea Party was a manifestation of the discontent of the Conservative base and the party leadership first ignored them and then fought them in their drive to be democrat lite.
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Post by underzog on Mar 20, 2016 2:46:43 GMT -5
Glen Beck is absolutely right to support Ted Cruz and reject Donald Trump. Trump is a con man or carnival barker who tells people what they want to hear. It is pretty pathetic to see the idiots who voted for the Islamo Bolshevik, Barack Hussein Obama, twice are now just as stupid in electing a blowhard who pretends he is a successful businessman. It is ridiculous. It This guy says he is going to make America great? How is he going to do that with the gigantic rise in prices will have to pay for our iphones, computers, laptops and flatscreen tvs when he starts his trade war with China? Maybe the people who elected Obama are now going to say eff you to their own handiwork in letting Obama be elected twice. -- BRILLIANT!
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Post by rah on Mar 20, 2016 5:31:32 GMT -5
So you, like Beck, would rather see Hillary in the WH than Trump? Because that is what it's looking like it could come down to. The thought of Hillary in the WH is bad enough but empowering her to make all of those SCOTUS appointments is a nightmare. Nope, if it comes down to that choice I will vote for Trump just to keep Hillary out. Trump is an authoritarian A-hole and exactly what he'll do if POTUS is questionable but Hillary is an avowed socialist and I KNOW what she will do.
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Post by underzog on Mar 20, 2016 13:21:16 GMT -5
A vote for Trump in the nominating process is a vote for Hillary. The lib/commies know this. In my home state of Communist Massachusetts, the "Boston Globe," a very Liberal newspaper, said that 20,000 Democrats should switch to Republican or unenrolled (such as myself) to have Trump win the Mass primary (he did), because Donald Trump will be the easiest for Hillary to beat in the general election. On the outside chance that Trump wins the general election it would be a crapshoot. Would Constitutional Conservatives get elevens instead of snake eyes in this crapshoot? It is possible but the odds are against it.
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