Lucille
05-16-2011, 08:55 AM
Vox Day (http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/05/wnd-column_16.html):
However, what ultimately dooms Daniels is not his height, his hair, his history or his geographic location. It's not even his suspected distaste for issues dear to the hearts of social conservatives sparked by his talk of a "truce" on them. What has rendered him unelectable, and possibly unfit for the governor's office he now holds, is a recent decision by the Indiana Supreme Court, with the majority opinion written by Daniels's sole nominee.
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This horrific decision by the Indiana judges means that Americans, or at least Americans who happen to be living in Indiana, have fewer rights than medieval Englishmen. The decision isn't merely incorrect, it is a grotesque insult to the Fourth Amendment, to the United States Constitution, to the American Revolution, indeed, to the very concept of America itself. America is not a police state, and it is a travesty to claim that a nation born in violence against the legally constituted authorities does not have a right to resist them in their own homes.
And Daniels has thus far remained silent on the issue, when anything short of an abject apology for David's appointment combined with a demand for David's immediate resignation, and the resignation of the other two judges who sided with David, is absolutely necessary for him to remain a credible governor, let alone a president. And even if he does do as he must, the Indiana court decision raises serious questions about what sort of appointments Daniels would make in the unlikely event he were to find himself in the White House.
Ron Paul aside, the present slate of potential Republican candidates is an insipid and uninspiring collection of political hacks. But unless he acts swiftly to end his judicial appointee's attack on both the U.S. Constitution and the common law, Daniels will have demonstrated himself to be easily the worst of a bad lot.
However, what ultimately dooms Daniels is not his height, his hair, his history or his geographic location. It's not even his suspected distaste for issues dear to the hearts of social conservatives sparked by his talk of a "truce" on them. What has rendered him unelectable, and possibly unfit for the governor's office he now holds, is a recent decision by the Indiana Supreme Court, with the majority opinion written by Daniels's sole nominee.
[...]
This horrific decision by the Indiana judges means that Americans, or at least Americans who happen to be living in Indiana, have fewer rights than medieval Englishmen. The decision isn't merely incorrect, it is a grotesque insult to the Fourth Amendment, to the United States Constitution, to the American Revolution, indeed, to the very concept of America itself. America is not a police state, and it is a travesty to claim that a nation born in violence against the legally constituted authorities does not have a right to resist them in their own homes.
And Daniels has thus far remained silent on the issue, when anything short of an abject apology for David's appointment combined with a demand for David's immediate resignation, and the resignation of the other two judges who sided with David, is absolutely necessary for him to remain a credible governor, let alone a president. And even if he does do as he must, the Indiana court decision raises serious questions about what sort of appointments Daniels would make in the unlikely event he were to find himself in the White House.
Ron Paul aside, the present slate of potential Republican candidates is an insipid and uninspiring collection of political hacks. But unless he acts swiftly to end his judicial appointee's attack on both the U.S. Constitution and the common law, Daniels will have demonstrated himself to be easily the worst of a bad lot.