Conservative Common Man

A reasonable person would have a difficult time denying that parrot press outlets such as the Washington Post are little more than divisions of the Obama campaign staff. Today’s Post offers further proof of the advantage that Obama’s campaign holds over the McCain campaign. It is extremely ironic that McCain played such an instrumental role in magnifying his opponent’s advantage via his McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation that muzzles the private citizen thus allowing parrot press hit pieces greater impact.

It seems that staff writer Robert Barnes lives in fear, dreading the horror of a potential Supreme Court that respects the Constitution and its duty. The message of “A Win By McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right” could be summarized as a five alarm alert for those that prefer judicial activism over the Constitution:

A victory by the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, would probably mean preserving the uneasy but roughly balanced status quo, since the justices who are considered most likely to retire are liberal. A win for his Republican counterpart, John McCain, could mean a fundamental shift to a consistently conservative majority ready to take on past court rulings on abortion rights, affirmative action and other issues important to the right.

Isn’t funny how liberals see rights that don’t exist and refuse to see rights that do? Barnes article seems like a campaign ad mostly because it is either blatantly disingenuous or he is ignorant of the history of the Republican nominee. An honest appraisal would conclude with the likelihood that McCain would shy away from strict constructionist judges regardless of his promises to do the right thing. As I said in a discussion group the other day, it would seem this election is a choice between potential Ginsberg appointments and potential Souter appointments. Either way the American public and the Constitution loses.

Constitution respecting citizens can at least hope to influence a McCain appointment. There is the possibility that he could appoint judges that adhere to their mandate, so this might be what Barnes fears. Although he does provide a little honesty in parentheses proving that he has some knowledge of McCain’s history:

(McCain’s endorsement of Roberts and Alito as his models for judicial appointments is somewhat ironic, since each has authored an opinion dismantling part of the senator’s most notable legislative achievement.)

The addition of a conservative in the mold of Roberts or Alito to replace the court’s longest-serving justice, 88-year-old John Paul Stevens, would make Kennedy’s role less pivotal. For instance, it would not be hard to imagine the court’s jurisprudence on the death penalty changing dramatically without Stevens, who this year announced that his 30 years on the bench had convinced him that capital punishment cannot be fairly administered.

You see it is not only the fabricated right to have a child ripped from the mother’s womb that must be protected. Anti-justice Kennedy’s power to play king must be preserved so that states can’t execute child rapists. Barnes apparently dreams of a day when the only people that can legally be executed are unborn or maybe even recently born children. The objects of the “Hope” of an Obamunist are really sickening if you stop to think about them.

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