"If George Bush is re-elected, you can about be certain that in six years, Roe v. Wade will be gone, affirmative action will be gone, and the extreme political agenda that this group has advocated will be ensconced in civil society," said former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois.
Has Roe v. Wade ended the abortion debate? Has affirmative action ended racism? Maybe their reversal will allow both problems to be settled in a more democratic way.
"These judges, some of these judges, that come out of the White House, they will take your rights away. It is no more complicated than that," said U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.
It's Orwellian to say that judges who believe in the original intent of the constitution will take away your rights. It's the judges that invent rights willy nilly that are dangerous to your actual rights. If a judge can find rights in an area where none exist, they can also re-interprit long held rights. That's why Democrats see a phantom constitutional protection for abortion, but they deny any individual right in the second amendment.
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. "That is not the America I love and those are not the type of judges I will nominate, I promise that. ... They talk about compassion, but then they go ahead and try to pack our courts with judges who are trying to take away the rights of Americans, particularly the rights of women."
Read: I will continue to nominate the kinds of judges that remove controversial issues from the democratic process, and rule by fiat. Therefore, issues like Roe v. Wade will be fought forever clouding more important constitutional issues.
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. "Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction, and when the government lies to the American people, that is a weapon of mass destruction."
All of these problems can be solved through a smaller government that allows individuals more choices. But to Kucinich, taxing people out of business is supposed to create jobs and get people off the streets.
John Kerry "We don't need a Democratic Party that turns its back on 50 years of accomplishments and lacks ambition. We don't need in America a second Republican Party, and I will run as a Democrat that offers this country real choices."
Kerry's 50 years of accomplishments haven't solved poverty or racism, but have cost us trillions of dollars. The only choice he is offering is a greater variety of potential failures that we'll be stuck with. How about the choice of letting American's opt out of his social experiments?
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