McCain's Justice Should Scare Liberals
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John Kerry is not a Supreme Court Justice. But Scalia is, and his church was a non-issue when he was only one of three (out of nine on the high court.) Now that he awkwardly is one of five (out of nine) he actually appeared in a recent TV interview spinning the notion he believes "there is no such thing as a Catholic judge". Disinformation from a member of your Court to now cover a huge judgment error by our President.
Yeah, McCain is a thoughtful choice. The guy married 25 years to a massive beer business that encourages its customers to get "loose as a goose" and abandon all inhibitions is just who you need to "fix" the Supreme Court for church folks.
It's pretty hard to even imagine anything more "upside down", but single-issue voters don't mind at all.
This is reason No. 1 to vote for McCain
This article should be read by any conservative in America who is considering not voting for McCain.
Yes, McCain doesn't agree with us on every issue -- and some are significant -- but he's on our side on the Supreme Court, which I believe is the most significant issue out there. He voted for Alito, Roberts and even Robert Bork -- ROBERT BORK!
We're one vote away from tossing Roe v. Wade into trash heap of history along with that other dreadful decision, Dred Scott (both are similar in that they classified an entire class of people as property).
Vote for John McCain.
Your Court is ALREADY a church fraternity.
Actually, nominations to the high court SHOULD be the premier criteria for picking your choice of president---because that court "legislates" and "un-legislates" far more than Congress in matters that affect you. And there is NO APPEAL of their decisions. It's not just a woman's choice about having children. There will come a time, for instance, that Congress might want to create universal health care. Your nine justices could well decide, for instance, that any such thing is unconstitutional because if would infringe negatively on the "rights" of corporations which have already "built up" their insurance business models. Think that kind of stuff can't happen? Think again. The Supreme Court, after all, is the only reason that paper entities (corporations) have the rights of personhood now. Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito love corporations, not you.
By the way, no article about the make-up of the current court should ever omit mentioning that five out of nine of these guys (Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy----yes, the conservative gang) are also members of a single church, Catholic. No kidding. Bush did that for you with his additions of the 4th and 5th ones in Roberts and Alito. YOUR COURT ALREADY IS A RELIGIOUS "CLUB" IN ITS MAJORITY.
Think I'm bashing Catholics? Not at all, the parishoners there are mostly good folks. But even they, and certainly the rest of America, should wonder why we were saddled with a fixed majority that were taught from birth that the Pope is infallible and "their" Church (together with its style of hierarchy and decision-making) is the only "real" one. Scalia will tell you he disregards all this. Common sense will tell you otherwise.
You CAN'T do a thing about past judicial appointments given to you by your Republicans. But you CAN alter the future ones, and we had all better think about that. It is the single most important reason to elect Obama/Clinton.
John W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.