WHOOPS! Gary Bauer calls the California Supreme Court "unelected radicals", WRONG!

[ck4829]

Indeed, the Right emphasized this “activist judges” angle in this case; Gary Bauer, attacking the “four unelected robed radicals,” wrote:

"It was an egregious exercise in judicial activism – of judges wielding raw political power to redefine our most basic values. But that is how the Left has succeeded. It cannot achieve its goals through the democratic process via the elected legislatures, so it ignores the people and goes to the courts, where it relies on political activists cloaked in black who answer to no one. The Left succeeds by using the most undemocratic methods possible."

Of course, Bauer may not realize that, while appointed at first, justices on California’s Supreme Court face voters at the next general election; each of the justices in the majority for this case has been retained by voters at least once. Bauer is probably aware, though, that the “elected legislature” in California passed marriage equality in 2005 and 2007, only to have it vetoed both times by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/05/right_attacks_c.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Isn't it a shame

that bigoted, ignorant, hateful assholes like bauer don't get their way? We could have a national day of hate every fucking day of the year. THANK GOD for the founding fathers bauer. They obviously knew that garbage like you would crawl out of our septic tanks to spread your poison.

[Parche]

6. Hey Boss

Gary Bauer can suck my submarine..........:rofl: :rofl::rofl: :rofl:

I cant stand these hate filled krishtuns who put their noses into everyone else's private lives, while theirs are worse.


:hi:
:patriot:





PS. Just started this book, and it is already awesome.....:woohoo: :hi:

[BOSSHOG]

7. Yo Parche

Don't be too noisy or soon "they" will want to ban books about submarines because they might make our young children yearn for cock. Submarines are all part of the evil gay agenda, ya know its all symoblism. Large, hard throbbing submarines.

I got a 50 dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble for my birthday. Oh My!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. And...

They go really deep. ;-)

[izquierdista]

2. Need to get him on Chris Matthews

And ask 27 times "how are they not elected"?

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. Yeah, right, and the Chief Justice, appointed by Reagan and siding with the majority, is a radical.

Gary Bauer is on hallucinogens.

[unpossibles]

4. they really do not understand how our government works, do they?

or that the judiciary exists in order to protect the minority from the whim of the majority when necessary.

[Mz Pip]

5. I think only one judge

was appointed by a Democrat.

Nice try Gary.

[zanne]

8. But the "activist judges" on the Supreme Court were right...

To stay counting the ballots in Bush v. Gore, right, Gary?

[gratuitous]

10. All right, you nitpickers

So the premise of his argument is completely wrong; doesn't mean Bauer's asinine statements aren't completely wrong, as well. If you're going to get all tied up in "facts" (which can be used to prove anything that's even remotely true), you're going to miss the glittering arguments of the True Patriots of the Right. And sure, the justices referred to California's state constitution as the basis for deciding whether the statute banning same sex marriage was unconstitutional, but that doesn't mean it wasn't still not judicial non-activism by non-elected democratically chosen judicial officials.

:crazy:

[Orsino]

11. And Bauer is one o' them outside agitators.

I think he's most afraid that and Teh Gayz get married, no one will notice.