Posted on 11/07/2004 10:12:16 AM PST by vannrox
Even after Pennsylvania's other senator, Catholic and self-described pro-life senator Rick Santorum, endorsed pro-abortion Arlen Specter in the primary instead of a pro-life challenger -- which Santorum said he did because only Specter could win the actual election, thus ensuring a GOP majority in the Senate and more pro-life judges ...
Even after the President used his political capital to get Specter elected -- which Specter repaid by not campaigning at all for Bush and not exactly crying for justice when Kerry/Specter for Working Families signs showed up in SE Pennsylvania ...
Even after pro-life workers spent countless hours campaigning for a GOP majority and a GOP president ...
Arlen Specter warns Bush against nominating pro-life judges.
Specter is in line to be the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and would thus wield enormous power over the confirmation process. I hope against hope that the majority leader, Bill Frist, and the other GOP senators will put Sen. Cornyn, Sen. Sessions, or anyone else in charge of the committee. The only thing Specter has going for him is seniority, and that's been ignored before.
Heck, they can move someone with more seniority to the committee and then give him the chairmanship.
Update: Read this column in National Review for more on Specter.
Email your Senators now (go to www.senate.gov and select your state from the menu). Here's what I sent Virginia senators Warner and Allen:
Senator Arlen Specter has told President Bush not to send him any pro-life judges if he is chairman of the Senate judiciary committee.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2883040
Further, Arlen Specter did not campaign for President Bush and his political director ran a 527 that was placing "Kerry/Specter for Working Families" signs in SE Pennsylvania. There must be consequences for this disloyalty.
I urge you to ensure that Senator Specter is NOT selected for chairman of the judiciary committee. He is not a loyal Republican.
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This guy cannot be trusted with the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee.
Banning abortion for conservatism is the same as the Gay Marriage issue for liberals. It is going to bite us in the ass.
Specter will say or do anything to get power.
Is this possible - since his son is one of those trial lawyers who sues for the big bucks?
I cant believe it. Did he actually say...
" I want all women to have at least 1 abortion in their lives."...?? Thats just outrageous.
Contact Senator Santorum 202-224-6324
Tell them in no uncertain terms that Specter cannot be made Senate Judiciary Chairman
Do NOT take "no" for an answer!
Bush has no Mandate?
Just say "NO" To Specter's Games!
Senate Judiciary Committee GOP Members
Contact Senator Orrin Hatch 202-224-5251
Contact Senator Charles Grassley 202-224-3744
Contact Senator Jon Kyl 202-224-4521
Contact Senator Mike DeWine 202-224-2315
Contact Senator Jeff Sessions 202-224-4124
Contact Senator Lindsey Graham -202-224-5972
Contact Senator Larry Craig 202-224-2752
Contact Senator Saxby Chambliss 202-224-3521
Contact Senator John Cornyn 202-224-2934
Specter should be removed from the committee. John Kyl should be the Chairman replacing Hatch. Specter can be better used on another committee where his liberal bias won't be so devastating to the current trend in the Republican party.
This is from the NRO article cited in the article and should have been better publicized BEFORE the election. No question, we were duped.
No it won't. Because we're right and they're NOT. There is such a thing as RIGHT and WRONG with no shades of gray. Good versus EVIL. I'm not a relativist, and by their vote neither is a majority of this nation. Abortion is wrong and evil. Homosexuality is also wrong and evil. God said it, I believe it and that settles it.
The GOP is not just the majority party in America today. The GOP is also a pro-life party, with the vast majority of its constituents being pro-lifers. Within his own party, Arlen Spector is in the minority when it comes to respecting and advancing right to life issues, and in overturning Roe v Wade.
Reversing Roe v Wade is not the same thing as banning abortion. Abortion never belonged in the courts to begin with. It is consistent to oppose the judicial activism that forced abortion on demand onto the states just as it would be to use judicial activism to force "gay marriage" on the states.
Only if you believe upwards of 75% of the public favor abortion on demand. My guess is it's closer to 22%.
It's more than abortion. Specter is conservative only when he has to be and liberal whenever he can get away with it. He's also proved himself to be a backstabber.
Except that gay marriage is wrong. Banning abortion isn't.
Exactly! As long as Roe stands, it serves as a precedent for judicial supremacy on a whole host of issues. And judicial supremacy is incompatible with conservatism and a republican form of government.
If abortion is not outlawed, then the United States will come to a definitive end. Allowing abortion requires that the State decree that some human beings are not entitled to the protection of the homicide laws. The United States cannot continue to exist while flouting the basic principle that our rights come to from God, through our created human nature, and that the State exists to secure these rights--not to create them and not to trample them.
http://www.gopusa.com/activist/petitions/petition.php?petition=specter_chairman
Petition to remove Specter as chair...please sign.
Only off by one word :)
Specter is beneath contempt.
However, he's also spineless........and now that his name is up in lights, we can only hope that his cowardice will force him to toe the Party line for a while.
If homosexuality is genetically transmitted and abortion is legal, then conceivably we could stamp out homosexuality by genetic testing and aborting those babies carrying the hypothetical "homosexuality gene". If this had happened in the 1930's then you wouldn't be here--that is if homosexuality is genetically transmitted and not just a bad choice.
Title: GOP Sen. Specter Vows to Block Bush's Nominees
Source: newsmax
URL Source:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/29/165559.shtml
Published: Oct 29, 2004
Author: newsmax
Post Date: 2004-10-29 20:42:24 by TLBSHOW
3 Comments
Recall that alleged Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, upon winning the primary, immediately backstabbed President Bush, who had campaigned for him instead of actual Republican Pat Toomey. Turns out Specter was just getting started.
We now see that the usually pro-Democrat Pittsburgh Post-Gazette endorsed the sharp-horned RINO in Tuesday's general election for this reason: "Before the Post-Gazette editorial board, he promised that no extremists would be approved for the bench."
What the pro-abortion Specter and pro-abortion Post-Gazette mean by "extremist" is anyone who isn't pro-abortion or who otherwise follows the U.S. Constitution instead of making up legislation from the bench.
"Even if he votes nine out of 10 times for the administration, we trust his word that the 10 percent of difference will be a brake on the worst excesses of a second Bush term, if it comes to that," the pee-yoo P-G snarled.
And there are these facts:
Arlen Specter:
Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
Voted NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds. (Jul 1995)
Those who voted to uphold Roe v. Wade included Associate Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and Harry Blackmun. It was Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy who would cast the deciding vote in the case. Kennedy was initially going to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade but ultimately caved in to pressure from pro-abortion groups and voted to uphold it.
Kennedy should never have been a judge in the case. He was appointed to the Supreme Court only after the man nominated before him, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, was voted down by the Senate after admitting he had smoked marijuana in the past. And Ginsburg was only nominated because the man nominated before him was none other than Robert Bork, whose fate we already know. If not for Arlen Specter, it would have been Bork, not Kennedy, casting that deciding vote.
Thanks to Arlen Specter, one golden opportunity to overturn the atrocity that is Roe v. Wade has already been squandered. Can we really afford to put him in a position to do it again?
Remember: those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
With 45 million babies dead and counting, perhaps it is time we informed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of the folly of giving Specter the power to replace Tom Daschle as obstructionist-in-chief.
MESSAGE FROM LAURA INGRAHAM:
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Thank you, vannrox.
Let's face it -- Specter has essentially just announced he's rejoined the Democratic Party. That means he'll NOT be participating in the Judiciary Committee.
But who cares? Specter and imminent turncoat Chafee mean the GOP will still retain a 53-47 majority in the Senate. Get used to it folks. That's what happens when RINOs are chosen over real Pubbies.
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