The Left has launched a religious war
to oppose this constitutional vision.
If they lose, we will preserve our country.
If they win, God help us all.
Since Bork got borked,
constitutionalism has made a comeback,
notably through the proselytism
of the late great Antonin Scalia.
When President George Bush the First
nominated the conservative judge, Clarence Thomas,
to the court in 1991,
the Left decided not really to attack
Thomas's judicial philosophy.
Rather, they attacked his personal life.
The judicial philosophy was becoming more mainstream,
so they go after his personal life,
contriving dubious rumors of sexual harassment.
After two attempted character assassinations
against our judges, one of which was successful,
conservatives still refused to respond in kind to the Left.
The late sainted leftist judge, Ruth Ginsburg,
was confirmed by a vote of 96-3.
The leftist judge, Stephen Breyer, was confirmed 87-9.
Even the more recent leftist judges,
Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan,
were confirmed 68-31 and 63-37, respectively.
But when President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh...
Do you remember that?
How could you forget that?
When he nominated Kavanaugh to replace
the liberal Anthony Kennedy the following year,
Democrats returned to their old calumnious tactics
with a vengeance.
The Left accused this mild-mannered federal judge
not merely of some contrived sexual harassment
as they had done with Thomas, but of rape.
They had no evidence.
Their accuser changed her story multiple times.
The accuser's account was contradicted
by the very people she named at the party in question,
including her best friend.
No matter, the mainstream media ran with the story anyway.
The balance of the Court was on the line.
Roe v. Wade was on the line.
Abortion was on the line.
When those allegations finally completely fell apart,
the Left upped the ante
by accusing this mild-mannered judge of gang rape.
They based this on the accusations
of a woman who he never met and of a criminal lawyer.
I should be very clear, when I say criminal lawyer,
I don't mean a lawyer who specializes in criminal law.
I mean a criminal, an actual criminal
who also happened to be a lawyer.
No matter, the mainstream media ran with that one, too.
Anything to protect secular liberalism
and the sacrament of abortion
from an originalist judge and the text of the Constitution.
Conservatives, at long last, I think,
have finally woken up to this game.
For too long, we viewed the Left's hysterical demagoguery
of the judicial process as a simple political disagreement.
We thought that if we only played
by those old civilized rules,
the Left would come around eventually, right?
Wrong. It's clear now that they will not.
The Left views the Court
not merely as a political institution,
but as an ecclesiastical body,
a congregation for the doctrine of the liberal faith.
We cannot counter the leftist attempt
to redefine, in Kennedy's words, existence,
meaning, the universe, and the mystery of human life
with a limp proceduralism
that lacks substantive moral vision.
The founding fathers and framers of our Constitution
had a clear understanding
of the relationship between law and society
and the relationship between virtue and politics.
They deplored license as the antithesis of liberty,
and they articulated a view of natural rights,
grounded in the natural law
written by our Creator, the natural law giver.
The Left has launched a religious war
to oppose this constitutional vision.
If they lose, we will preserve our country.
If they win, God help us all.