To be complete honest, I’m utterly terrified that Newt continues to press this issue. It may not be a winner right now, but it’s incredibly dangerous for (supposedly) credible candidates to be saying this sort of thing. It legitimizes the concept and I see a huge risk of it catching on as a right wing position, beyond the existing grumbling about activist judges.

If the GOP, or even just large sections of it, were to endorse this reasoning and decide it’s OK to ignore rulings they didn’t like, we could quickly end up on a fast track to the complete breakdown of the rule of law in the United States and, as a result, a complete breakdown of the United States as we know it.

This cannot become mainstream. If that were to to happen, it would be a disaster beyond anything you can imagine.