McCain, Fred Thompson and 30 Democrats!

Chakra Hammer on January 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM

That, however, is disturbing.

And who would create a foundational document that is subject to the whims of the times anyway? The whole purpose of the constitution is to protect from distortions, populist or otherwise.

stonemeister on January 19, 2008 at 12:59 PM

The founding fathers would, apparently, otherwise the courts couldn’t “interpret” the constitution and amendments wouldn’t be allowed. The fact remains that you’re wrong. The constitution is not set in stone. If someone decides to “amend it” or “interpret it” to suit their own twisted purposes they can do it provided they have enough politicians under their control.

Fred will go on to Florida
Bill C on January 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM

It would be nice if you would be accurate with your assessment of the article you link to.

Fred Thompson, trailing Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the polls, MAY continue his presidential bid even IF he finishes third in today’s South Carolina primary, his campaign said.

Chakra Hammer on January 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Broken record much?

COSPONSORS(31), ALPHABETICAL

(D)Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] – 1/29/1997
(D)Sen Bryan, Richard H. [NV] – 2/13/1997
(D)Sen Byrd, Robert C. [WV] – 5/9/1997
(D)Sen Cleland, Max [GA] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] – 9/4/1997
(D)Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] – 3/17/1997
(D)Sen Ford, Wendell H. [KY] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Glenn, John H., Jr. [OH] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Graham, Bob [FL] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] – 2/6/1997
(D)Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Kerrey, J. Robert [NE] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Levin, Carl [MI] – 2/4/1997
(D)Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 3/10/1997
(D)Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] – 3/12/1997
(D)Sen Moseley-Braun, Carol [IL] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [NY] – 2/24/1997
(D)Sen Murray, Patty [WA] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Reid, Harry [NV] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Robb, Charles S. [VA] – 7/16/1997
(D)Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. [MD] – 4/15/1997
(R)Sen Thompson, Fred [TN] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Wellstone, Paul D. [MN] – 1/21/1997
(D)Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] – 1/21/1997
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Bi-Partisan bill?

Hmmm… McCain, Fred Thompson and 30 Democrats!

Anybody on here attempting to excuse Huck’s ignorance of conservative principles and totally uneducated and “progressive” view of the constitution are sounding like morons. Why are you even on a “conservative” forum to begin with? This is really getting old.

This is such an ignorant (or trolling) level of comments that I feel like I’m reading YouTube. Fred explained the “living breathing” philosphy clearly, but that should be common knowledge for this group.

Thompson, whom President Nixon once called “dumb as hell,” claimed to have carefully studied the Constitution and determined that perjury by the president of the United States did not constitute “high crimes and misdemeanors.” He must have been looking at one of those living, breathing Constitutions we’ve heard so much about.

—Ann Coulter

Fred Sawyer and Huckabee Finn By Ann Coulter

Oh, it does. It won’t bother Huckabee supporters a bit, though.

Laura on January 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM

That was my very first thought. His supporters seem to be the single-issue evangelical Christian bigots that the leftist press is always shrieking about.

The numbers seem to show that there are fewer of them than the leftists ever said, but more of them than conservatives ever knew. He’s such a fraud; I am sickened by him.

I’d rather lose a general election to a Full-Lib with a Full-Conservative…….

Than trying to appease the press with a R.I.N.O. candidate and lose to UTTER EMBARRASMENT

If you want to lose the general to the DNC…….Keep shucking and jiving for the semi-lib R.I.N.O.’s……

In a general election….with a choice between a TRUE Lib and a HALFWAY Lib…..

Who do you think wins????????????????????

Gomer Huck…….a HalfWay Lib…….

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21615320@N06/2203519293/in/photostream/

Re-read the post. The point is that Huck is out of touch with the conservative movement. That’s a valid and ongoing complaint.

Not on the issue of judges, constitutional amendments, and constitutional process. In fact, he’s the one who is most in lock step with the GOP on this front.

I have said that I personally detest “living, breathing” metaphor. The reason is not because the left uses that phrase. The reason is because it personifies a piece of paper. But the knee-jerk reaction that has occurred because Huckabee used that phrase is ridiculous. It is ridiculous because Huckabee clearly did not use the metaphor to mean that the meaning of the document changes at a whim, but rather that the document can be changed through the difficult amendment process.

It is irresponsible to report this any other way than that Huckabee was referring to constitutional amendments. Adding updates about Fred’s thoughts on this, while utterly refusing to add updates about Huckabee’s response, is, well, biased.

Re-read the post. The point is that Huck is out of touch with the conservative movement. That’s a valid and ongoing complaint.

Yesterday, Bryan plainly acknowledged that Huck was referring to constitutional amendments, and pointed out that he’s still wrong:

I will point out that Huckabee’s position doesn’t square up well with the Constitution’s amendment process — a process laid out precisely because it ought to be difficult to change the Constitution, but change is sometimes necessary, and it’s necessary because the Constitution isn’t a living, breathing document.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21615320@N06/2203519293/in/photostream/

I’m an independant baptist…and he turns my stomach sour with his politics…..

Best we should appropriate the left’s language and then use the language appropriately.

Buddahpundit on January 19, 2008 at 1:16 PM

That’s what got us into this mess to begin with!

I’m shocked . . . just shocked.

http://www.fred08.com

Best we should appropriate the left’s language and then use the language appropriately.

I said yesterday that Huckabee’s use of the “living breathing constitution” phrase was an ill-advised way to describe his point.

Eugene Volokh (a Fred supporter) agrees with you.

There’s plenty for Thompson to complain about with respect to Huckabee’s ideas about the Constitution, but his “hammering” of Huck for inadvertently stumbling on some “code words” is just silly. I guess that’s all Fred can really do, politically, since he’s proposed or agreed with plenty of new Amendments himself, although he has since backed away from some.

Your Jewish Master on January 19, 2008 at 1:09 PM

Surprised? No. Disappointed? Yes. This is a sad consequence of postmodernism.