John McCain’s allies on the far right want more activist judges on the bench to repeal hard-won employee, consumer, minority, and women’s rights. To paraphrase Al Franken, they’re also keen to see a country where the wall between church and state has been eaten away like the cartilage in David Crosby’s septum. They’re not sure what kinds of judges former Harvard Law Review President and University of Chicago law professor Barack Obama would appoint, but they know this: Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers. That’s basically it. Oh, and their spokesmodel wears a giant cross, just in case their message is too subtle (which is not hard to imagine, given their constituency):
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So what is the Judicial Confirmation Network? It’s a front group set up by Pat Robertson’s personal shyster, religious freakazoid Jay Sekulow. But does it really matter who these theological neanderthals are? I don’t think so.
Here’s what’s really important: they want John McCain to be president because he’s just like George W. Bush:
Today, in advance of President Bush’s address to the Republican National Convention, the Judicial Confirmation Network distributed buttons to delegates and guests bearing the photographs of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito and stating “Thanks, W!”
The idea is to thank President Bush for nominating two outstanding Justices of the Supreme Court who are faithful to the Constitution,” said JCN Executive Director Gary Marx. “Besides keeping our country safe since 9/11, President Bush’s Supreme Court picks will be the greatest legacy of his administration.
With perhaps as many as four Supreme court nominations to be made by the next President, this election will determine whether the new Justices in the mold of Roberts and Alito will usher in a new era of judicial restraint, or whether we will be plunged back into a generation of further liberal judicial activism chipping away at our democracy.
Here’s the button:
JCN remote control user Wendy Long says:
Americans do not get to choose Supreme Court Justices. In their wisdom, the Framers of the Constitution provided that the President chooses them for all of us. The next President will exercise that most important judgment, probably at least several times. JCN is educating Americans about the differences between an ‘Obama Court’ that would engage in judicial activism, acting as a super-legislature and imposing a political agenda from the bench, and a ‘McCain Court’ that would likely practice judicial restraint and fairly apply the law based on what the Constitution says and on laws passed by the representatives accountable to the American people.
I’m kind of with the JCN on this: Everyone who feels like saying “Thanks W!” ought to follow the Network’s advice and vote for for John McCain. The other 70% of us will go with Barack Obama.
UPDATE:
AMERICAblog sees JCN’s Rezko and raises them a Keating.
I would add that, for those in Florida, Sarah Palin enjoyed at least one sermon at her church by Jew for Jesus wackjob David Brickner. He informed the congregation that Israeli Jews get what’s coming to them in terrorist attacks because they don’t accept the divinity of Jesus.
Palin was also given protection from witchcraft by the guy in the video below. He thinks it’s high time we have some Christian businessmen and bankers since banking seems to be dominated by a certain Semitic people with a talent for making money and a taste for lox:
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