“Yeah, as far as 21% will take him.”

So you’re making the prediction that come November, 2010, assuming Toomy is the GOP candidate vs. either Specter or an as yet unidentified Democrat, that Toomy will get no more than 21% of the vote?

Well… I suppose if Toomy is the nominee… we’ll see.

(How’d your 401K and other investments fair over the past year or so, ldkrn? Not being nosy… just trying to gauge how your bets usually pay off.) (*WINK*)

Oh… and it’s not “*rolls eyes*” it’s (*ROLLING MY EYES*)

(*WINK*)

BILL

It will remove from the Senate one more Republican who doesnt represent me. This removes a gigantic obstacle to party unity, morale, and thus turnout and votes.

Washington Post-ABC News Poll: 35% of Americans consider themselves Conservatives, while only 23% consider themselves liberal.

Even though many Conservatives stayed home, McCain still got close to 60,000,000 votes. Conservatism is not going away anytime soon. We have to stop letting the Liberals and the media define us. And David Frum should stop trying to drag the Republicans to the center.

“…all the amendments that have been added to the constitution since it was first drafted.”

Umm… Sqrrrl… all the amendments that have been added are… er… AMENDMENTS that have been ADDED.

(*SMILE*)

(And if you don’t get it… well… another black mark against the American educational system.)

(*CHUCKLE*)

“But the fact that had the foresight to define a process to amend the constitution demonstrates they understood that society changes and that the constitution wasn’t perfect then nor would it always be in the future.”

Which… er… is again WHY we have an amendment process and why when someone wants to change the Constitution (adding to it… subtracting from it…) the only true Constitutional tools available are the amendment process itself or a full blown Constitutional Convention.

(*SHRUG*)

“We’ve had ‘judicial activism’ since 1803…”

At least! Still… doesn’t make it right. AND… even if you think it is right… doesn’t mean Congress doesn’t ultimately retain the authority to simply override judicial review… assuming they had the balls, the numbers, and the support of the Executive Branch.

We’re going a bit far afield into Constitutional theory here, but for what it’s worth, I believe that it were just explained to the American People how fundamentally undemocratic this whole concept of “judicial review” is when misused that they’d “get” it.

Anyway… broad theory aside… what was your point again? What specifically were you disagreeing with me on…???

“Don’t get me wrong, there are occasional court decisions I think are way off base and not grounded in any reasonable interpretation of the law or constitution…”

Then here we meet on common ground.

(*WINK*) (*HANDSHAKE*)

BILL

P.S. – Frankly, I’d like to see a Constitutional Amendment defining the High Court’s role and power with regard to judicial review and specifically the power to overturn (judicially veto) democratically passed legislation.

Perhaps… and this is just off the top of my head… something along the lines of:

In order to declare a law or action unconstitutional, seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices would have to act in concert – a supermajority.

Congress – by two-thirds majority – would have the power to override the Court’s decision acting within 30 days of the Court’s decision.

Anyway… just thinking aloud. (*SMILE*) Any thoughts on the broad concept?

Yeah, as far as 21% will take him.

*rolls eyes*

If what I’m reading here is representative of conservative thought as a collective, you guys are going to be in the woods for a long, long time…

Sorry, David. For conservatives, all that means is that 60% of the party will be intolerant bullies, working for ideological purity, and there goes the neighborhood again.

Well, because history mostly bears that out. Ask immigrants, gay people, working women, anti-war activists-basically anyone who isn’t a white, Christian conservative-how kind and compassionate conservatives have been to them over the years, and there’s your answer.

Once they gain control, you can kiss your sexual freedom goodbye. They’ll come after you based on their deep concern for public health. You gays, you swingers, you bed hoppers–you’ll be painted as a threat, spreading your diseases throughout the population.

Just as they’ve cracked down on smoking, and are now beginning to crack down on food, so they will crack down on your evil ways. Make no mistake.

Once property rights are killed and political rights are killed, so will “privacy” rights.

Why do moderates tacitly assume that liberals are the kind and compassionate ones, and conservatives are uncaring, uncompassionate, evildoers?

Again, why the asymmetry? Any truth tellers out there willing to rat out the moderates?