Some of our comrades in arms are still hesitant to vote for McCain for a number of reasons. McCain has had an adversarial position from conservatives on quite a few notable events in the Senate, including:

  • McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act (passed)
  • Participation in the “Gang of 14″ against the nuclear option while the Republicans had control of the Senate
  • The McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Act (failed)

Let’s face it - he pissed a lot of us off when he did those things. I admit that I had him off my list of Presidential Candidates a long time ago. But shit happens and he got the nod. I was a ‘hold your nose and vote for McCain’ voter until he put Palin on the ticket. Now the aroma is a bit better.

Think about this - what happens to the composition of the Supreme Court in an Obama presidency? Obama vocalized the following about conservative Americans:

“So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them….” — Barack Obama, April 2, 2008

I tell my colleagues and associates who hesitate to vote for McCain-Palin that their votes, whether martyred on Bob Barr or Ron Paul, or withheld altogether, amount (statistically) to ½ vote for the Obama-Biden ticket.

Peter Ferrara, who formerly served in President Reagan’s White House Office of Policy Development, wrote the following about what might happen to the balance of Supreme Court of the United States in each scenario of the election outcome. Excerpt from the American Spectator:

SCOTUSBarack Obama has made it clear – he believes gun owners are dangerous and that guns should be banned. If he is elected President, he could name new Supreme Court Justices who will try to overturn the recent court decision and strip our rights away.

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently split down the middle. It has four solidly conservative justices in Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito. It has four solidly liberal left Justices in John Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, and Stephen Breyer. In the middle is Justice Anthony Kennedy, who goes back and forth between liberal and conservative depending on the case.

Probably the most liberal two Justices on the Court will retire during the next presidential term, Stevens and Ginsburg. Justice Stevens is 88, and Justice Ginsburg (75) is not in good health. If they can be replaced by reasoned, principled justices like the most recently appointed Roberts and Alito, conservatives will finally have achieved what they have been fighting for since the Nixon era, transforming the liberal activist Supreme Court into a reasoned institution of law.

By contrast, if Obama is elected, he will not only be able to replace Ginsburg and Stevens with liberal/left clones. A majority of the current justices are over 70. If Obama serves two terms, he will be able to remake the Court into the most left-wing force for social destruction it has ever been.

McCain has said precisely that he would appoint Justices like Roberts and Alito. Obama has said explicitly he would never appoint justices like those two. He actually voted against the confirmation of Alito and Roberts. Obama has said instead that he would appoint justices like the ultraliberal, left-wing Ginsburg, who was formerly General Counsel of the ACLU, and like the consistently liberal David Souter. McCain said at the Saddleback Church debate he would not appoint justices like Ginsburg or Souter, or Stevens or Breyer for that matter.

Obama has publicly disparaged Clarence Thomas, who has had a far more distinguished legal career than Obama. McCain voted to confirm Thomas in a narrow, highly contested, Senate vote.

These differences could not be greater. This is the most important election for the Supreme Court ever. There will not be another crossroads for the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary like this in our lifetimes.

Indeed, not only the Supreme Court is at stake. The entire federal judiciary is on the line. If Obama becomes President, even for just one term, he will appoint not only two Supreme Court Justices, but hundreds of other federal judges as well. If Obama serves two terms, the federal courts will be filled with Obamaniacs replacing the retiring Reagan Bush judges.