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Entry: McCain-Lieberman '08 -- we can't say we weren't forewarned Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_lieberman_08_we_cant_say_we_werent_forewarned#19513 Post contents: Clarence Thomas is the most philosophically consistent conservative Supreme Court Justice on the bench. He is the one who often changes Scalia's mind on constitutional matters and has been instrumental in keeping the court relatively sane over the past few years. Mr. Spencer seems to share the media prejudice that Thomas is some kind of afirmative action candidate, in part, no doubt, because Scalia can't keep his mouth shut outside the court room and publishes his (overrated) dissents. Scalia voted to prohibit medicinal marijuana in CA based on an otherwise very liberal interpretation of the Commerce Clause; Thomas, consistent with the Constitution, argued the Feds had no business in the matter. Scalia's vaunted conservatism is more of a strong executive neoconservatism. Thomas is the only Justice that shares something like Ron Paul's vision of the Constitution. For that reason and others (he's a gentleman and a retiring intellectual) he will never be a VP. Come on. Sent at: 2008 09 07