What's really at stake this November?  For about 13 percent of Americans -- the 13 percent that President Bush caters heavily to -- the stake is the intentional destruction of Constitutional liberty in the United States.  The 13 percent that, in the form of James Dobson and Ted Haggard, enjoy the President's private ear for an unbelievable hour every week.
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Nobody outside the Beltway, and few people inside the Beltway, enjoy such an extraordinary level of catered, red carpet service by this President.
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And I'm about to tell you why.

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Focus on the Family, a big-government, anti-freedom Religious Right group, warns as follows:

http://www.citizenlink.org/...
"Conservative pundits and pro-family legal analysts say if liberals gain control of Congress on Tuesday, the fate of future conservative judicial nominees will hang in the balance.
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With them, according to Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst of Focus on the Family Action, will hang the fates of pre-born babies, marriage and religious liberty.
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"The success of the president's judicial appointments depends on conservative control of the Senate," he said."
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Concerned Women for America notes:
http://www.cwfa.org/article...
"But there is nothing more problematic for America’s future than the threat of judicial activism. It is no secret how the left would handle that challenge; they promoted 22 filibusters of qualified conservative judicial nominees. "
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That's the far right's top priority: pack the federal courts with corrupt, biased judges who have little to zero respect for the Constitution and its guaranteed individual rights.
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Don't be fooled by the term, "conservative judicial nominees."
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The definition these Religious Right groups impart to "conservative" is infuriatingly deceptive -- and is the exact opposite of what "conservative" used to mean.
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"Conservative" used to mean "limited government."
Religious Right-friendly "conservative" judges believe in nearly unlimited government.
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The logic is simple to follow:
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1.  The Religious Right, America's Taliban, hates personal freedom with every fiber of their being.
2.  The Constitution represents an absolute line in the sand against government intrusion and mistreatment -- the Constitution, the highest law in the land, tells government what it may and may not do to the citizens that it governs.  The Constitution enshrines rights and freedoms that no government may lawfully violate.
3.  The judges appointed to the federal courts -- especially the Supreme Court -- are the Constitution's enforcers.  They are, in effect, the police to enforce Constitutional law upon government.
4.  Therefore, the far Religious Right must disable the Constitution and its system of checks and balances.  One of their means of trying to nullify our Constitutional liberties is to pack the courts with judges who will refuse to uphold it.
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Judges serve lifetime appointments.  Therefore, our Constitutional rights will suffer a lifetime of damage unless the far right is stopped.
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Stopping them requires a Democratic majority in the Senate.
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When you vote next Tuesday, vote not just for yourself, but for your children.  And your grandchildren.  Don't jeopardize the freedoms that they grew up to take for granted.
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For more detailed information on the grave danger that our Constitutional liberties face, see my recent blog post:
http://people.bakersfield.c...
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