tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post2823212839280331990..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: McCain's InstabilityGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-44716952819898998642008-05-17T09:28:00.000-06:002008-05-17T09:28:00.000-06:00That's an excellent quote! Thanks for dredging it ...That's an excellent quote! Thanks for dredging it up!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-20362598462190438812008-05-17T08:19:00.000-06:002008-05-17T08:19:00.000-06:00This Rand quote about GOP candidate Rockefeller ma...This Rand quote about GOP candidate Rockefeller made me think of John McCain (from The Objectivist, March 1964):<BR/><BR/><I>"It is impossible for any honest advocate of capitalism to vote for Gov. Rockefeller: he has read us out of the party and out of the nation. It is impossible to sanction him as a champion of individualism and free enterprise. It is precisely in the name of "party loyalty" that those who are Republicans must oppose him: his nomination would destroy the Republican Party's significance, its role as an opposition party; <B>his election would deliver the country into the power of a single party with two indistinguishable branches</B>."</I> (emphasis added)SNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953992447839442060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-39673170818418063322008-05-14T20:40:00.000-06:002008-05-14T20:40:00.000-06:00And Obama makes it so much easier for him to get a...And Obama makes it so much easier for him to get away with it during this campaign by being so obviously leftist.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-20046760820957816752008-05-14T19:58:00.000-06:002008-05-14T19:58:00.000-06:00For me, the biggest danger of John McCain is that ...For me, the biggest danger of John McCain is that he gives a patriotic, pro-American sales pitch for leftist causes. (Of course, FDR and JFK made a lot of headway here before the New Left took over.) We are already seeing this threat in McCain's casting of environmentalism as a "national security" issue.Andrew Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11001665674703307354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-85914591093925368292008-05-14T19:07:00.000-06:002008-05-14T19:07:00.000-06:00And were it not for the huge head start towards se...And were it not for the huge head start towards serfdom that FDR bequeathed us, along with the abysmal state of our culture, the fact that we survived the man would offer some measure of comfort about whomever we're going to get next.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-75652562498260067962008-05-14T16:13:00.000-06:002008-05-14T16:13:00.000-06:00Who do you think said this?"In the face of such di...Who do you think said this?<BR/><BR/><I>"In the face of such dissenting opinions, it is perfectly clear that, as Chief Justice Hughes has said, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is."<BR/><BR/>The Court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions has improperly set itself up as a third house of the Congress - a super-legislature, as one of the justices has called it - reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there, and which were never intended to be there.<BR/><BR/>We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself. We must find a way to take an appeal from the Supreme Court to the Constitution itself. We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.<BR/><BR/>I want - as all Americans want - an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as written, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the arbitrary exercise of judicial power - in other words by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of facts which are universally recognized."</I><BR/><BR/>It could easily have been McCain or any conservative complaining about judicial activism -- but no -- those are the words of <A HREF="http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/chat9.html" REL="nofollow">Franklin Delano Roosevelt.</A><BR/><BR/>And again, the fundamental commonalities of conservatism and the Left peek out from the obfuscatory haze.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com