Posted on 07/25/2005 12:21:00 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Thoughtful Democrats — the rarest birds on the endangered species list — might want to ponder this: "Another hanging chad has dropped. His name is John G. Roberts Jr., and he undoubtedly will turn out to be opposed to abortion rights, affirmative action, an expansive view of federal powers and a reading of the Constitution that takes a properly suspicious view of the state's embrace of religion. You hang enough chads, and you get to change the Supreme Court."
That's not moveon.org, or the wilder shores of the Internet. That's Richard Cohen, big-time columnist in that bastion of mainstream media, the Washington Post. And his first thought, on learning the name of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, is of hanging chads.
Leave aside Cohen's careless assumption that the 2004 election was "all about" the Supreme Court: I happen to be writing this in a taxicab stuck in traffic in Central London, where bombs are going off, and it seems to me last November was a little about all that loud exploding stuff, too. If the Democrats hadn't been so hung up on chads and the court, they might have had something to say about that.
The Democrats drew exactly the wrong lesson from their chad fever. If the case teaches anything, it's the importance of winning at the ballot box, which you do by promoting clear ideas confidently stated. The Dems prefer to leave it to the Divine Right of Judges. You might too if you believed in gay marriage and partial-birth abortion, but, simply as a matter of practical politics, it's disastrous for the party. Poor sad Richard Cohen, unabletomoveon.org after five years, is a fine emblem for the Democrats: Ask not for whom the chad hangs, it hangs for thee.
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Char :)
LOL!!
I'll have to remember that one.
Pretty good.
MS as usual is right on the mark. For the Democrats I have a message- you live by the courts (eg Roe v Wade), you die by the courts (Algore v Bush).
Every time the Democrats mention Florida 2000, the voters remember the smarmy Algore trying to sue his way into the White House. If they want to bring that disgraceful episode up time and again, I say we let them.
So far, Dems have not learned or been taught their much needed lesson about what a bitch it is to be the minority party. Why should they? The masters of slimery, despite being in the minority, they so often get their way anyway (or get away with murder).
NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!!!
Great article. Thanks for the post.
"Whom the gods would destroy they first make chads."
Steyn is a genius.
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