Ann Coulter: Who Was the Second Choice?

Human Events Online ^ | October 19, 2005 | Ann Coulter

[republicofdavis]

"(1) Miers is a good bowler (New York Times, Oct. 16, 2005, front page–Joshua B. Bolten, director of the Office of Management and Budget: "'She is a very good bowler"), which, in all honesty, is the most impressive thing I've heard about Miers so far."

This wasn't necessary though and undermines what was an otherwise excellent analysis. Sometimes her quips and asides are effective. Here they're not.

[Borges]

Miers' justification may have been wrong but I must say that the idea of any goverment body having the power to control what a married couple does in the bedroom is so repugnant to the idea of being secure in your property and person and the spirit of the 4th amendment that I see no problem with the Griswold decision.

Abortion is not a privacy issue because there is an innocent life involved not to mention the simpler fact that it is a medical procedure and as such should be subject to state censure. But wouldn't taking the other side in Griswold ential also assuming that a state has the power to outlaw premarital sex as well?

[counterpunch]

Here come the orcs, right on time.

[shhrubbery!]

It seems like though Specter initially retracted, he is now retracting his retraction.....

Well, that just adds to Arlen's credibility, now, doesn't it? /s

And the fact remains, Ann didn't note either Specter's retraction OR his waffling on his retraction.

I still call that irresponsible on Ann's part.

I guess it could boil down to this: Whom are you more likely to believe -- Dan Coats, or the "ardently pro-choice" Arlen Specter?

[Jimmy Valentine]

Our "Goddess" is really po'd. I bow to her superior wisdom in this matter.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Stellar, it looks like folks are turning against Harriet. I need to cast my vote.

[Mulch]

"...the idea of any government body having the power to control what a married couple does in the bedroom is so repugnant to the idea of being secure in your property..."

Define "does"?

[johnny7]

It is a waste... a bum play called at scrimmage.

We wanted Rogers-Brown... we'd settle for Owen... but we got Miers. That's equivalent to a movie director who wanted DeNiro... would settle for Pesci... but got Steve Guttenberg.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

you said: these cheap whores like Bork

does that qualify as character assassination? does that tactic used more by Karl Rove or James Carville

[mountainfolk]

The most impressive thing I have heard about acid mouth Coulter is her snagging a RAT boy toy some 10 years her junior. See how easy it is to be dismissive and condescending of the accomplishments of others? Also, tho I love bowling I have never done much of it. It is a healthy and fun and also addictive sport enjoyed by non-cerebral as well as real smart six pack people I know. To be a good bowler, one must focus on the strike. I'd say that would be a plus for Harriet Miers.

[Borges]

I see your point but the idea of a return to Comstock laws seems every bit as egregious a misuse of the General Welfare clause as is the socialists' misuse of it.

[Colonial Warrior]

You would think she had established her point...belaboring it serves only to show that she is p*ssed about not being on the list herself.

[CommerceComet]

>>What is her problem?

I think that Ann is mad that Bush didn't ask her.

[duckln]

I get it now

No you don't! Chrissy lies, Ann doesn't. No comparison, unless you mean they are totally opposites.

[SevenMinusOne]

you said: these cheap whores like Bork

does that qualify as character assassination? does that tactic used more by Karl Rove or James Carville

Character assassination?? - That is for others - The fact is Bork as assassinated his own Character (IMO) by whoring himself out to the MSM - The very MSM that helped bring him down and has lied about every Conservative position for the last 30 years - The same MSM that has lied and continues to lie daily about our successes in the GWOT -

That Bork would allow this MSM to USE him is pathetic (I am sure he feels the way he does against Ms. Miers...but to allow the MSM to use him...just so he can get on TV is pathetic)

[republicofdavis]

"See how easy it is to be dismissive and condescending of the accomplishments of others?"

Yep. It doesn't help her argument and I imagine it turns off many who she might persuade.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

This GWB voter is very disappointed by the HM nomination.

For me, the US judiciary in particular SCOTUS was job #1 for GWB. Not Iraq, not tax cuts.

The liberal imperial judiciary that has been foisted upon us has stripped us of much of our rights and imposed so on us what we would never vote for, effectively negating self-determination.

The Liberal Judiciary has done more damage to this country than Saddam and arguably even Al-Qaeda combined yet incredibly GWB invested political capital in war 5000 miles from here against someone who was no immediate threat. meanwhile liberal judges continue run roughshod over us; who has done more damage to the country: Saddam or the Gang of Nine? The answer is obvious, yet we spend billions of dollars and gallons of our youth's blood, and have barely more than a white flag to raise for the most important decision. Another wasted opportunity.

[TitansAFC]

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)

"accepts Ms. Miers's statement that he misunderstood what she said."

[AndyJackson]

But wouldn't taking the other side in Griswold ential also assuming that a state has the power to outlaw premarital sex as well?

In fact, without Griswold, what would stop the State of CT from outlawing post marital sex altogether and not just some old-fashioned ideas of what what and what was no allowable between the marriage sheets?

I can admit that the question of how you get from Griswold to abortion is legitimate and I can even admit that how you get from right to privacy to prying open the pharmacies to sell products that the laws of the state prohibit, but the claim that there is no fundamental right to privacy is absurd.

[Map Kernow]

Things are so bad, the best option for Karl Rove now would be to get himself indicted. Then at least he'd have a colorable claim to having no involvement in the Miers nomination.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! She's right though---GW needed to keep his flank covered given all the other caca that might hit the fan, and he oh-so-obviously didn't on this dumb, unvetted nomination.