Posted by
TheChair on Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:29:16 PM
I don't believe Giuliani is likely to win the GOP nomination because he is on the wrong side of gun control, abortion and gay marriage. Add weak on illegal immigration. Tough-on-crime and tough-on-the-war won't be enough to carry the day. For instance, I re-elected W. to do two things: fight the war and pack the Court. That's my bottom line. It's a pretty short list, so as a member of the base, I'm not very likely to give up either of those demands. Yet that's what a vote for Giuliani will likely require.
Giuliani can't entirely moot these concerns by promising to appoint originalist judges because originalist judges cannot reason their way to his belief set through originalist means. This puts him in something of a pickle. Either his beliefs are unconstitutional and he'll have to compartmentalize them as "personal only," or else he will have to expect us to believe that originalist judges will somehow reason their way to his social issue positions. On this note, I'd like to see an interviewer ask Giuliani: Other than the recent appointees Justices John Roberts and Sam Alito (who have yet to render any abortion, gay or gun rights opinions) what Justices between Blackmun and Breyer would serve as your model appointees?