Thursday’s debate in Iowa highlighted refreshing contrasts between the top GOP presidential hopefuls and flailing President Barack Obama.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the leader in the polls, denounced activist federal judges who substitute their personal views for the Constitution and undercut the will of the people as expressed through elected lawmakers.
“The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial, far too powerful and I think, frankly, arrogant in their misreading of the American people,” Gingrich declared to loud applause.
Obama regularly nominates precisely those types of judges, including to the Supreme Court.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney condemned Obama’s handling of radical Iran. Addressing the fact that Iran recently obtained a highly sophisticated U.S. surveillance aircraft, he faulted Obama’s instantly rejected request that Iran turn the drone back over to the United States.