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when a smart man can get wrapped up in Obamamania.

Indeed.

I mean, he's absolutely right that dealing with Abortion is more then just overturning RvW. Ultimately, it will require social changes that go far beyond a court decision. But exactly how is Obama, or McCain or any other politician for that matter, suppose to change that? We aren't electing the national deity, we're electing a president.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

We've established that he's not a fool but the phrase "safe, legal and rare" is usually said in foolishness or willful dishonesty. It's not inherently safe and if it's legal, it won't be rare. I don't know that is should be illegal, per se, but I don't see that side of the aisle making any efforts to change the culture.

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I wish that were the case. That would at least make sense. However, during the primaries, he was a big Romney supporter.

Apparently he believed Romney was lying about his support of the war? That's the one and only thing that makes any sense.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

To be fair, what choice does Kmiec have? I have reluctantly come around on McCain because I agree with him on Iraq. But it’s a lot easier to overlook McCain’s flaws when you agree with him on the single biggest issue of our time. Take that issue off the table and suddenly it becomes very difficult to line up for the Straight-Talk Express.

Kmiec might say Romney was right on taxes, judges, sovereignty, and values. Obama is right on the War. McCain is right on nothing.

I said he has not given a rational reason given his behavior.

If he were against the war, that's his big issue, why did he support Romney? If that's his big issue, he should have been supporting Obama or someone like that all along.

But he wasn't, he was with Romney. If his position on the war is what drove him, he shouldn't have supporter Romney.

If he wants to come out and say "I'm opposed to the war, which I think is an extremely important reason that overrides my opposition to Obama's policies on abortion, and I was wrong to support Romney and/or I thought Romney's support of the war was phony," I would strongly disagree, but his reasoning would be sound.

But that's not what he's doing. He's trying to spin some silly argument about Obama being more pro-life and ignoring the fact that he supporter Romney while Romney was supporting the war.

It's not that I disagree, I do, but who cares? It's that his reasoning is irrational.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

Mr. Kmiec feels strongly about two key issues: He's pro-life and he's antiwar.

Go ahead, name me a candidate who fits that profile other than Ron Paul, who had no chance of getting nominated.

So no matter which candidate he ends up supporting, he is going to have to twist himself like a pretzel into convincing himself that the candidate is OK on both those issues when he really isn't.

Frankly, of the other Republicans running, I always regarded both Rudy Giuliani and McCain as more hawkish on foreign policy than Romney. The difference was one of passion. Romney would fight terrorists, sure. But the difference is that Rudy actually hates their stinking guts for what they did to his city on 9-11, and with him it's personal.

He's making some silly argument about Obama being more pro-life.

I said, if he came out and basically said "I didn't think Romney was all that serious about his war support, so I favored him, but I favor Obama because he's anti-war," that would at least make some sense. But that's not what he's doing. He's trying to justify his position with weird acrobatics that make no sense.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

Or at the very least he is still MUCH better than Obama on these subjects. And he is no worse than Obama on sovereignty; if by that you mean amnesty.

All of which makes Kmiec's endorsement of Obama all the more insane.

I think he's arguing some kind of "balancing test" thing, since McCain isn't good ENOUGH on these things, he'd flip to Obama.

But still, it's one of those things where if that's what he thinks, he's not saying it. That's why his arguments don't make sense.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

Romney was late in advocating the surge. If you remember the GOP debates, he took a rather lukewarm approach to the surge: "We'll see how it plays out," he said.

Not like McCain, who used tough language like "victory."

He's got the same problem with Romney and Iraq that he has with Obama and abortion: He can't find a candidate who agrees with him on all his key issues--who is both a dove on Iraq and is pro-life.

The only pro-life dove I can think of is Ron Paul, and he's a flake.

So he's stuck between Romney, who was pro-life and a moderate hawk, and Obama, who is pro-choice and a dove.

Perhaps that's true, but that's certainly not what Romney was selling. NR went nuts when McCain accused Romney of not supporting the surge.

I personally just think Romney will say pretty much anything to get elected.

Bottom line is that there are arguments Kmiec COULD make that make sense. But he's not making them.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain

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It's just that Kmiec's comments and support of Barack Obama are just so asinine.

Hey. I'm an original FredHead but if Kmiec had headed Fred's judicial team but then supported Obama and said the things he has said, I would wonder about Fred.

I'm sorry but I just find Kmiec's comments so whack!

Kmiec was a great Conservative on legal issues and a great academic. He was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Council under Bush 41, replacing Ted Olson. He's also written a lot of great stuff about federalism, natural law, pro-life, etc.

It just seems like he's lost his mind lately. That's why things are so weird.

"I will look for people in the cast of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and my friend the late William Rehnquist – jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference." - John McCain