#1 backbaygrouch | 2011-10-13 06:31
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." - the Bard.
November 13, 2003. Judge Roy Moore, the highest jurist in Alabama was removed from office for his refusal to buckle under to a federal judge barring the Ten Commandments from being displayed on court property. The merits of the case aside, on that day the nation could see that those wearing black robes were not invulnerable. Judges can be removed for whatever is deemed misconduct or not good behavior.
November 18, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, without a single American precedent, overturned unnumbered millennia of the sound ordering of human society and declared a Constitutional right for marriage between same sex couples. The above example of the removal of a senior jurist was fresh in the public consciousness.
Under the Golden Dome atop the State House on Beacon Hill the the overwhelming majority Democrats in the Great and General Court were in full throttle panic. No one would be interviewed. No comments ruled. They did not know which way the political winds would blow. They were in bed with the gay lobby. Most, probably opposed the poorly written, sloppily constructed decision, penned by Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, the South African born wife of the Jewish New York Times scribbler Anthony Lewis. They just wanted to not be held accountable. They were scared. They were vulnerable. and could be bullied by any determined leader for or against.
The homosexual marriage lobby needed time just as the North needed time in 1850. They found their Wade Hampden in the respectable conservative governor of the Bay State Mitt Romney. He was, of course, as a good Mormon, opposed to gay marriage.
All it would have taken to strike down this outrage upon Western Christian civilization was a leader. My thoughts at that time harkened to 1919 when Governor Calvin Coolidge electrified the country when faced by a strike by the Boston police. He declared, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time."
It made him President.
Mitt Romney wanted then, as he does today, very much to be President. He had the issue. He had the template. What he did not have, as Wade Hampden lacked in 1850, was the will to act. Americans have long groaned under judicial tyranny. How thrilling would have been the call to Liberty, had Mitt Romney strode into the legislature and demanded the removal of four judges for exceeding their authority by falsely interpreting the Constitution of Massachusetts.
The most feebly lettered citizen could be shown that they did. Despite the hallowed position of Marbury v. Madison, in the real world legislatures can, if they lack not courage, remove judges. A mere five days previous the case of Judge Roy Moore had given proof of that. The reverse is not true. The ultimate arbiters of the Constitution must lie with power. That lies with the legislature. Your average lawmaker hates that. It staples a writ of responsibilty to his paycheck.
Mitt Romney held four aces and a ten spot. He threw away three aces and tried to draw an inside straight. Not a winning strategy. He gave his alleged political opponents what they needed most: time. He hemmed, he hawed, he whimpered about having to obey judges.
Romney never addressed whether judges had to obey the Constitution or attribute commonsense to the meaning of words. He consulted with his homosexual fundraiser and advisor, Arthur J. Finkelstein. He waited until 1860 when the enemy would be stronger and the moment for action had passed.
Mitt Romney is in his second act. Notice that none of his adversaries dares to point out that he is not a leader? That he blew a free kick at the goal? He is, and they are, respectable conservatives, Wade Hampdens. The issue is off the table. The cultural Marxist deconstruction of the family can no more be a topic for debate than can the genocide of the White race which it advances. It is the same old story, again and again.
In the coming years as our concerns seep into the mainstream we will encounter many Wade Hamptons and Mitt Romneys. Trust them not. They will waffle and betray, usually through inaction. The nation our colonial forbears bequeathed us is being hollowed out. It is barely a skeleton today. About all we have left is the Mantra.