Uniting Americans

By Author: J.J. Jackson
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Liberals are fretting over who President Bush will nominate to replace a retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. For them the prospect of Justice O'Connor who has only at times been a friend to the Constitution being replaced with a truly qualified Supreme Court Justice is terrifying. She has flirted with liberal ideology enough over her tenure that the left has gone from completely opposed to her to promoting the need to replace her in kind because the mere thought of her replacement being to the right of this moderate brings them feelings of dread and despair. At least with a moderate on the court like Justice O'Connor they can still win victories for their ideology.

So the liberals are out in force calling for a nominee that will unite America. And to be honest, I agree somewhat.

When liberals talk about uniting America they mean someone that is agreeable to all sides be they right or wrong. The problem is however that this isn't possible. You cannot nominate someone that is acceptable to constitutionalists like my self who seek a nominee that will actually enforce the law and not make law and also someone ...
... that at the same time is acceptable to those that want a nominee who will create a new law and then enforce that new law. Sorry, but it just isn't going to happen.

I don't find it odd that this is the vain tactic of the left; to call for unity of all ideas no matter how opposed they are to each other. But where was the call from these same elite liberals when a then President Bill Clinton put up for nomination famous rewriter of the Constitution Ruth Bader Ginsberg? I don't remember them asking Bill Clinton to nominate a Justice that was acceptable to us Constitutionalists and unite America. And that is because they didn't.

But like I said before, I do sort of agree that we need to unite America with Justice O'Connor's replacement. President Bush should nominate someone that is able to unite Americans but realizing that just because people live here and claim citizenship here that they are not necessarily Americans.

Forget appeasing the left wing Socialists, fascists & Communists. They are not Americans because they do not agree with the quintessential documents that spell out what Americans believe; the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Sure, these Socialists, fascists & Communists will bemoan my bravado at saying they are not Americans. But they aren't. Sorry.

They don't believe in all men created equal. They don't believe that these rights come from their Creator and by correlation that there must be a Creator (i.e. God). They don't believe that the powers of the government should be limited to only their enumerated powers and that instead they have carte blanche to do anything they want in the name of promoting general Welfare. They believe that there is no right to freely practice religion in America but only a mysterious separation of church and state that miraculously prohibits public free exercise and displays of religion. They don't believe in private property rights and they certainly don't believe that the American people should be allowed to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from oppressive government. So they certainly cannot call themselves Americans since believing in all of the above are integral to what being an American is about.

So let's unite America and the Americans that live here with a Justice that will adhere to the Constitution. And let's forget about the faux Americans cloaking themselves in a veil of false patriotism.
About the Author J.J. Jackson is the owner of American Conservative Politics - The Land of the Free (www.thelandofthefree.net) and Right Wing Things (www.cafepress.com/rightthings)