Comments on: It’s Simply Life http://floppingaces.net/2005/10/25/its-simply-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-simply-life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Redhunter http://floppingaces.net/2005/10/25/its-simply-life/#comment-96 The Redhunter Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:20:51 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2005/10/25/its-simply-life/#comment-96 Love you Curt, but I'm not on board with this one. I see it as more the straw that broke the camels back on domestic issues. Conservatives have held their fire on a number of issues where the president has let us down; signing McCain-Feingold (after calling it "unconstitutional"), not only not controlling but <em>encouraging<em> run-away federal spending, refusing to deal with illegal immigration...on and on. If 9/11 had never occured, he'd be a failed president. Yes we may have lost a battle in the Senate over a more conservative candidate. But that's not a sure thing, and it would have been a fight worth fighing for a hundred reasons. The constitution may be simple, but the cases that come before the court are complex. I don't buy the "common sense is all you need" argument. What is needed is an intellectual heavyweight. This is so for several reasons. One, the way cases are won or lost is by justices debating each other. You win if you can present a good argument to those in the middle. Two, many of the cases deal with esoteric issues of trade and contracts and not with stuff like abortion, so the issues get complex. Three, and most important, simply "voting the right way" doesn't cut it. I want justices on "my" side to write opinions that wow people. The last thing I want is some idiotic "penumbra" stuff coming from a justice. Just my thoughts. But really Curt, this is the one time when <strong>I would love to be wrong!</strong> But I fear that I not. ;-)</em></em>

Love you Curt, but I’m not on board with this one. I see it as more the straw that broke the camels back on domestic issues. Conservatives have held their fire on a number of issues where the president has let us down; signing McCain-Feingold (after calling it “unconstitutional”), not only not controlling but encouraging run-away federal spending, refusing to deal with illegal immigration…on and on. If 9/11 had never occured, he’d be a failed president.

Yes we may have lost a battle in the Senate over a more conservative candidate. But that’s not a sure thing, and it would have been a fight worth fighing for a hundred reasons.

The constitution may be simple, but the cases that come before the court are complex. I don’t buy the “common sense is all you need” argument. What is needed is an intellectual heavyweight. This is so for several reasons. One, the way cases are won or lost is by justices debating each other. You win if you can present a good argument to those in the middle. Two, many of the cases deal with esoteric issues of trade and contracts and not with stuff like abortion, so the issues get complex. Three, and most important, simply “voting the right way” doesn’t cut it. I want justices on “my” side to write opinions that wow people. The last thing I want is some idiotic “penumbra” stuff coming from a justice.

Just my thoughts.

But really Curt, this is the one time when I would love to be wrong! But I fear that I not.
;-)

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