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Originally Posted by Pete
This is what Presidents get to do.
All you who sit out elections or "usually" vote third party - this is what you get.
Lots of old geezers on the SC. The next president will get to pick at least a couple.
That, folks, is the prize.
Keep your eye on the ball.
The Presidents pick doesn't believe # 2 is an individual right.
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I hear what you are saying, yet the SCOTUS seems to have devolved into the dysfunctional circus that our two main political parties have. If you ask me the SCOTUS has been absorbed and the legislative, executive and judical branches have become one massive machine. The 'Justices' frequently do more law making than they do judging.
When I think of the SCOTUS ( and the like of Karl Rove, Alan Greenspan, David Axelron, Bill Kristol types) I envision the Bubble headed Talosian's from Star Trek. Like the RNC, the DNC and Washington, DC in general, the SCOTUS is trapped inside an exclusive and incestuious bubble and has lost touch with reality.
While not SCOTUS related, a recent example just out of out of touch they all are....
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Originally Posted by Curly Haugland
"The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's the conflict here,"
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Originally Posted by Curly Haugland
"The rules haven't kept up," Haugland said. "The rules are still designed to have a political party choose its nominee at a convention. That's just the way it is. I can't help it. Don't hate me because I love the rules.
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Culy credits the media for the 'misconception' but I believe at minimum you can go back to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to what has influenced this 'Misconception'
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government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Maybe even as far back as the Decalration of Independence
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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
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When the Laws of the Land ebb and flow with each changing tide and those Trustees and Representatives fail their duties .......Banana Republic crosses my mind.