so he would overturn the constitution for Sharia Dominionist law?

Hobodeluxe: so he would overturn the constitution for Sharia Dominionist law?

Pretty much--he's pushing for stuff even MORE extreme than Andy Jackson, and has gone straight to taking pro-tips from Army of God war-porn fiction (I do wish I was making this up; suffice it to say that the Army of God, and some of its leadership, have written some very "Turner Diaries"-esque self-insertion-fanfic about how they intend to pretty much mass-arrest anyone opposing the Jesus Camper Dictatorship when they finally get power in a coup).

Now, can we make a citizen's arrest against Newt Gingrich for overtly calling for what is effectively sedition against the United States and threatening federal officials? :D

Weaver95: yeah, yeah, yeah. godwin motherf*cker.

Well, seeing as at least SOME of the Jesus Camper set now running the GOP have publically called for non-dominionists to be denationalised and exiled as "illegal aliens"--and at least one of Rick Perry's NARasite buddies is known to have connections to the Army of God domestic terrorist network, has essentially called for non-dominionists to be killed, and is one of the primary foreign Bad Actors in regards to a Ugandan bill that would mandate genocide against its LGBT population...

Well, if it walks like a fascist duck, and quacks like a fascist duck...

(As an aside, I'd probably compare the Joel's Army/NAR set that have taken over the GOP less to Nazis and more to a rather more obscure, yet in its own sense scarier group--the Romanian fascists, aka the Iron Guard and Legion of the Archangel St. Michael. Not only were they explicitly religiofascist (one of a very few groups who did so--ironically, it was the religionationalist-fascists which seemed to survive the longest) but were so extreme that THE FRIGGIN' NAZIS told them to turn things down a notch.

(Yes, think about that--when Nazis perpetrating one of the most well-documented and infamous genocides in history are telling you to calm the fark down, that pretty much sets its OWN level of extremism right there. About the only modern comparison is China telling North Korea to STFU.)

Presidential power shouldn't be expanded so that your favorite politician can do all sorts of wonderful things, it should be limited so that whackjobs like Newt can't screw up the American experiment.

/Newt Gingrich reminds me of Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone.

Sorry, Newt, but when the majority of the people, and their elected representatives decide it's OK to be bigots towards other people, then the courts have to step in.

Somebody's gotta make sure the laws are fair. The judicial branch is a check on the executive and the legislative. And the others are a check on the judicial branch.

The judicial branch isn't out of line if they're trying to protect the civil rights of people. During segregation, the majority of people wanted segregation. The elected officials wanted segregation, someone had to step in, be the "bad guy", and do the right thing. That was the judges. Thank God they did it, too.

The same is going to probably apply to gay marriages. Unless a President steps in and makes it Federal law, the judges are going to have to step in to make sure that gays have the same opportunity to marry their loved ones as straight people do.

Newt evidently wants to remove that check on his power, should he get elected.