So heres to 4 more years

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by JohnR

It wasn't going to be an issue and likely will never be an issue but if Republicans can never find a way to stop shooting themselves in the foot, they will never appeal to enough to get over the top.

I disagree... Romney would have had 1-3 justices to replace on the SCOTUS... that could have meant serious changes in many social issues....

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

I disagree... Romney would have had 1-3 justices to replace on the SCOTUS... that could have meant serious changes in many social issues....

And I don't think the most contentious issues: Roe-v-Wade, would get overturned in the most basic sense.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by JohnR

And I don't think the most contentious issues: Roe-v-Wade, would get overturned in the most basic sense.

With three more Scalia's and Thomas'?

I disagree..

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

I disagree... Romney would have had 1-3 justices to replace on the SCOTUS... that could have meant serious changes in many social issues....

Which is why many social issues should be left to the states, not the Federal Government. 1-3 justices like Ginsberg, Soto-Mayor, and Kagan could mean serious changes in social issues as well. Depends on whose ox is being gored. You're all fine with SCOTUS imposing its will on the people as long as you like what is being imposed. But, oh no, forbid that it takes away some of your cherished rights. If Roe v. Wade were overturned, that does not mean that abortion, or other "rights" that you like would be denied. It would, as constitutionally prescribed, allow the people of the various states to decide.

Deciding to change the structure of our government and replace inalienable rights with centrally authoritatian government granted rights and allowing also that government to totally decide which rights are granted and which are not, merely so that some pet social issues are made universally manadatory is not only silly but the very dictatorship that you fear.

[JohnR]

I didn't know there was an elitist right, I thought they were the one percent, the uberweathy greedy oppressor militiafunders or the puppeteers or something. I do know there is an elitist left.