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Ann Coulter: Donkey trapped in elephant's body
WorldNetDaily ^ | April 21, 2004 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 04/21/2004 4:46:52 PM PDT by alloysteel

Except for the presidential election, the most important election this year will take place on April 27 in Pennsylvania. That's the day of the Republican primary pitting a great Republican, Pat Toomey, against the 74-year-old, Ira Einhorn-defending alleged "Republican," Arlen Specter. No, it's not the "American Idol" finals. It's even more important than that.

Thanks to Arlen Specter:

States can't prohibit partial-birth abortion;

Voluntary prayer is banned at high-school football games;

Flag-burning is a constitutional right;

The government is allowed to engage in race discrimination in college admissions;

The nation has been forced into a public debate about gay marriage;

We have to worry about whether the Supreme Court will allow "under God" to be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

More than any other person in America, Arlen Specter is responsible for a runaway Supreme Court that has turned every political issue into a "constitutional" matter, giving radical liberals an uninterrupted string of victories in the culture wars. That's not a court, it's a junta.

In a democratic process, liberals could never persuade Americans to vote for their insane ideas – abortion on demand, gay marriage and adoption, handgun confiscation, cross-district busing, abolishing the death penalty and affirmative action quotas. So issues are simply taken out of the voters' hands by the Supreme Court. Vitally important cultural issues are now decided for us by a handful of unelected elites, who, coincidentally, share the ideology of Janeane Garofalo. It's a lot easier to get a majority out of nine votes than it is to get a majority of 280 million votes.

As long as liberals have a majority of Supreme Court justices in their pockets, they never have to persuade their fellow countrymen to support any of their crackpot ideas. They just sit around waiting for the Supreme Court to give them the "nine thumbs up!" sign to abortion on demand.

When Reagan was president, he threatened to appoint justices who would not discover nonexistent "penumbras," which mysteriously read like a People for the American Way press release, and to return these issues to voters. The uneducated bumpkin Reagan's radical notion was that judges don't write laws, they interpret them.

Liberals exploded in righteous anger – an emotion they've never mustered toward Islamic terrorists, I note. Still, all their theatrics would have been for naught and we would already have our democracy back – but for Arlen Specter.

Specter voted against a slew of conservative Reagan appointees, including Jeff Sessions to a federal appellate court (Sessions now sits with Specter on what must be a rather chilly Senate Judiciary Committee) and Brad Reynolds to be associate attorney general. But his epochal vote was against Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.

Liberals waged a vicious campaign of vilification against Bork, saying he would bring back segregated lunch counters, government censorship and "rogue police" engaging in midnight raids. No one expects more of Teddy Kennedy. But when a senator with an "R" after his name opposed Bork, it was over.

Specter pretended to weigh the attacks on Bork thoughtfully and after careful consideration announced he would vote against Bork. By exploiting the fact that he calls himself a "Republican" – despite voting with John Kerry more often than he voted with Ronald Reagan – Specter gave cover to the left's portrayal of decent, God-fearing Americans who love their country as being about one step away from David Duke. As the first Republican to oppose Bork publicly, Specter ensured that other craven "moderates" would soon follow suit.

The Bork fiasco utterly cauterized the Republicans. After that, Republican administrations were terrified of nominating anyone provably to the right of Susan Sarandon. Instead of legal giants like Judge Robert Bork, we ended up with Anthony Kennedy and David Hackett Souter on the Supreme Court.

Since Bork, Republican presidents have put three justices on the court. Two of the three gaze upon a document that says absolutely nothing about abortion or sodomy and discern a "constitutional" right to both. (But try as they might, they still haven't been able to discern a woman's constitutional right to defend herself from rapists by carrying a pistol in her purse.) Because of the court's miraculous discovery of a right to sodomy last term, gay marriage is now on the agenda in America.

The nation waits with bated breath to see if, this term, the court will strike "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Liberals are so desperate for this to happen that some of them are actually praying for it. The only reason to hope the court might let us keep saying "under God" is that it's an election year. Like Arlen Specter, the Supreme Court often gets religion whenever normal Americans are about to vote.

Luckily for the country, Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court a year before Specter was up for re-election. After supporting Thomas, Specter turned around and started bellyaching that Thomas was a "disappointment" – presumably for Thomas' failure to ferret out any more "new" constitutional rights such as gay marriage or taxpayer-subsidized penis augmentation. Don't hope for any more election-year conversions if Specter is re-elected: The old coot will be 80 years old by the end of the term.

Some Republicans seem to imagine that Specter has a better chance of winning the general election by appealing to Democrats – and thereby helping Bush – than Pat Toomey does. This is absurd. Just because Republicans hate Specter doesn't mean Democrats like him. It's no wonder Pennsylvania often votes Democratic. If Arlen Specter represented the Republican Party, I'd be a Democrat, too.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: arlene; arlenspecter; bork; clarencethomas; coulter; pennsylvania; phillycorruption; primaryelection; republican; rino; scottishlaw; scotus; specter; sphincter; supremecourt
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To: SevenDaysInMay
I think an Ann nomination is a fantastic idea - she herself has said that she looks forward to the day when a nominee throws it all to the wind and just speaks their piece to the liberal Dem blowhards on the Judiciary Committee like Kennedy. Ann Coulter would probably jump at the chance, and hey, she is a constitutional lawyer. Think of the nuttiness it would unleash on the left! If nothing else it would make for great theater. And who knows, at the end of the day she might be approved.
41 posted on 04/21/2004 6:19:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: AmishDude
Don't you!
42 posted on 04/21/2004 6:32:22 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: alloysteel
"Some Republicans seem to imagine that Specter has a better chance of winning the general election by appealing to Democrats – and thereby helping Bush – than Pat Toomey does. This is absurd. Just because Republicans hate Specter doesn't mean Democrats like him. It's no wonder Pennsylvania often votes Democratic. If Arlen Specter represented the Republican Party, I'd be a Democrat, too."

I absolutely love the last paragraph!

Thank you Ann, for writing this persuasive article. It's another WINNER which is sure to garnish some votes for TOOMEY!

PAT TOOMEY needs all the help he can get. Specter not only legislates like a dirty democrat, he campaigns like one.

This really is an election of the good Conservative PAT TOOMEY against the evil Liberal Arlen Specter.

In the 24 years Arlen has been Senator, PAT TOOMEY has run the strongest campaign against him.

Let's hear it for the next Republican Senator from Pennsylvaniaaaa......PAT TOOMEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO PAT GO!!!!!!!!!!

44 posted on 04/21/2004 7:47:35 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH (A vote for president Bush IS a vote for principle.)
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To: BibChr
Well, I'm an ex-Pennsylvanian, so I just get to watch.
45 posted on 04/21/2004 7:48:55 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: IronJack
...that Specter also voted against the impeachment of the Slick One, joined in his "principled stand" by the likes of Jim "Turdcoat" Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and John Chaffee.

w/ Specter....Not trying to defend, the indefensible, but he did vote for Clarence Thomas...and about his "Scottish Defense" of Bubba...."Those stolen FBI files sure came in handy, $hrillary" chuckled Bubba. :/

46 posted on 04/21/2004 7:53:11 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: Badray
Ping!
47 posted on 04/21/2004 7:58:15 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH (A vote for president Bush IS a vote for principle.)
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To: alloysteel
Ann if you are reading this, you are the best!

Spector is a MOLE!
48 posted on 04/21/2004 8:00:38 PM PDT by ladyinred (Kerry has more flip flops than Waikiki Beach)
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To: alloysteel
Here's a black and white photo for the color blind among us:

And here is a color photograph for the rest of us:


49 posted on 04/21/2004 8:09:07 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (The Passion of the Christ--the top non-fiction movie of all time)
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To: AmishDude
PA Pubbies will get cold feet.

If they do they will regret it. He has been given a scare by conservatives. If he wins he will spend the next six years voting to spite them.

50 posted on 04/21/2004 8:09:17 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: el_texicano
So, yes he can be "neutralized", but the question will remain, Will they?

No, they won't. So we must. Go Pat (Toomey) Go!
51 posted on 04/21/2004 8:20:37 PM PDT by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: alloysteel
If memory serves..arlen did some good work against lying anita hill..but when lib femi nazis went nuts and targeted him for defeat the next year..he wimply begged for forgiveness and said he would never do that again..and his behavior during clinton's Senate trial..NOT IMPEACHMENT..which sadly people get wrong..the House impeaches..the Senate sits as jury..he cited scottish law..in his case scittish law..the jellow belly coward..
52 posted on 04/21/2004 8:41:36 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Specter only voted for Thomas because he was facing reelection the following year and his pollsters told him that if he didn't, he would lose the election.

Even so, he had Theresa Heinz (later Kerry) run ads for him, invoking her deceased husband. She endorsed him, but criticized him for his treatment of Anita Hill.

I STILL regret not having voted for Yeakel in that election just to get rid of Specter.
53 posted on 04/21/2004 10:42:25 PM PDT by GEC
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To: AmishDude
Not this time!
54 posted on 04/21/2004 10:46:35 PM PDT by GEC
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To: skinkinthegrass
"...Not trying to defend, the indefensible, but he did vote for Clarence Thomas..."

If Thomas' nomination was one year earlier or later, he would not have had Specter's support. He always swings to the right in the final year of this term because he needs conservative votes to win.

55 posted on 04/21/2004 11:20:12 PM PDT by Badray (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown. RIP harpseal.)
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To: smokeyb; GeneralHavoc; SamInTheBurgh; adb102
ping
56 posted on 04/21/2004 11:23:13 PM PDT by Badray (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown. RIP harpseal.)
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To: alloysteel

57 posted on 04/21/2004 11:26:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: JenB
I don't drool, I just salivate.
58 posted on 04/21/2004 11:45:19 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: alloysteel
Ann is showing that she's not wowed by President Bush's endorsement of Arlen Specter's re-election bid. Ann doesn't put blind loyalty to party above upholding principle. Besides she has a good question: what have Specter and other RINOs done for the GOP lately? Whenever there's a choice between a RINO and a conservative, she picks the conservative. Pat Toomey wishes he had THAT kind of support from the President from Day One.
59 posted on 04/21/2004 11:52:01 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: alloysteel
A new picture from another thread -


60 posted on 04/22/2004 3:43:06 AM PDT by 7thson (I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
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