[Vision2020] Who are you voting for and why?

[Scott Dredge]

I think most of the Court's cases nowadays surround very narrow rulings that affect only a very few people...things along the lines of extraordinary circumstances surrounding a pending execution perhaps that might affect some obscure law.  I personally prefer an evenly divided Court with 4 liberals, 4 conservatives, and 1 swing or however else the the numbers can be broken down in a balanced way.  I don't want to see the court stacked to one side or the other.  When was the last time a supreme nominated by a Democratic president turned out to be conservative?  I can't name one.  Yet look at all the Republican nominations that drifted to the center and in some cases the hard left: Harry Blackmun (Nixon), John Paul Stevens (Ford), O'Connor (Reagan), Kennedy (Reagan), Souter (George H W Bush), Roberts (George W Bush).

Republicans try with all their might using code words like 'state's rights' and 'strict constructionist' to try and gauge whether or not their nominations will adhere to their political ideals, but more often than not, it doesn't work and they're flabbergasted when things like Obamacare isn't struck down.

Presently I'm not in fear of Republican appointees to the Court.

-Scott

From: suehovey at moscow.com
To: scooterd408 at hotmail.com; godshatter at yahoo.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Who are you voting for and why?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:59:12 -0700







Just a question, Scott.  Why do you feel Supreme Court nominations 
aren’t worth a lot?  Your sentence that follows your statement doesn’t 
negate the value of the makeup of the Court. Maybe swings, hardly liberal.  
Well I suppose one could say Warren did turn much more liberal, but his 
appointment was to keep him out of a presidential race, not so much because of 
his political bent.
 
Sue H.  
 
 


 

From: Scott Dredge 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:57 PM
To: godshatter at yahoo.com ; viz 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Who are you voting for and 
why?
 

I'm undecided.  It's almost impossible that I'd vote for 
Romney/Ryan, but never say 'never' and it would make no difference to me whether 
they win the White House or whether Obama/Biden are reelected.  I don't 
particularly see too much difference between them and I don't see either of them 
being able to exert much influence over the deeply partisan Congress.  
Supreme Court nominations aren't worth a whole lot any more.  Many a 
Republican nomination over the last several decades have turned out to be 
liberal or swings anyway.

The over riding reason that I'm not putting a 
whole of effort into deciding who to vote for is because my vote (or lack 
thereof) will have zero outcome on the election because I do not live in an all 
important swing state and it's a foregone conclusion as to which camp gets all 
of my state's electoral votes.  Beyond that, Obama will have already been 
declared the winner by the time I pull the proverbial lever because the polls 
will have already closed across all the eastern, central, and mountain 
states.

So I'm just kind of enjoying all of the political theater at this 
point.  I'd prefer a heck of a lot more mud slinging from the both 
candidates, but it looks like they're going to play it clean with all the 'he's 
a nice guy, we just disagree' comments thus far.

-Scott





Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:37:42 -0700
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: 
vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Who are you voting for and 
why?


I'm 
just curious who has decided upon which candidates and what your reasons are for 
choosing them.  Is anyone undecided?

What about offices other than 
President?  Or the propositions and amendments and whatnot?

Here is 
a link to a sample ballot for Latah County: 
http://www.latah.id.us/elections/2012gen/SAMPLE_LATAH%2011-6-12.pdf

Hoping 
for a constructive conversation,

Paul

 
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