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The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers' Party.  Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton are lawyers.  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are
lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a
lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth.  Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went
to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)  Every  Democrat vice
presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school.  Look
at the Democrat Party in Congress:  the Majority Leader in each house is a
lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.  President Bush and Vice President
Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen.  The leaders of the Republican
Revolution were not lawyers.  Newt Gingrich was a history professor;  Tom Delay
was an exterminator; and  Dick Armey was an economist.   House Minority Leader
Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer.  The former Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford,
who left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican
nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in
1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work. 
 
The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.

The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and
services that people want, as the enemies of America .  And so we have
seen the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party
grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil
companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large
retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in
our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes
of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their
clients, in this case the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws
passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn
precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an
awful way to govern a great nation.  When politicians as lawyers begin to
view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then
the role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming.   Some
Americans become 'adverse parties' of our very government.  We are not all
litigants in some vast social class action suit.  We are citizens of a republic
which promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from
lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions,
we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our
once private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that
place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important
decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme
Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When
lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means,
as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power
of lawyers in America is too great.  When House Democrats sue America in
order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do
to use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the  Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real
reform  or real hope in America .  Most Americans know that a republic in which
every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not
what Washington intended in 1789.  Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight
a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders.  Most
Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral
values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our
nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society
and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the
mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.
Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will
only make our problems worse.