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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny
Coupla questions:
1. Does this only amount to grandstanding because there are enough sane folks left to stop it going through?
2. If the answer to (1) is Yes, doesn't this speak rather compellingly against voting for this dipshit's party?
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CM,
1. I think it's grandstanding because I believe even Aderholt doesn't actually believe that Congress has the authority to limit the Supreme Court's jurisdiction with a simple statute that says so. If he does, then his legal acumen is poorer than that I credit him with having. I suspect that Aderholt is co-sponsoring the bill, along with our Senator Richard Shelby and others, to play to his Christian right-wing constituents.
On the other hand, Aderholt may in fact be a hard right-wing Christian Dominionist who believes this nonsense. I don't know him that well. I've only met him; it's my sister who went to school with him.
2. I don't think so. The party sponsors and endorses plenty of candidates other than just those of the Christian right-wing. Senator John McCain, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former Mayor Rudy Guiliani, for instance, are all moderates on social issues whose views are at odds with many of those of the Christian right-wing. They are all Republicans. If given the chance, I'd probably vote for any of them. None of them has endorsed the idea of establishing a Christian theocracy. I'm quite sure all of them would be very much against it. I suspect very much that Schwarzenegger is in fact an atheist, although it has been decades since he would even hint at it publicly.
Cool Hand