Read the rest at Ann Coulter.ComDemocratic political consultant Bob Shrum pioneered the technique, running ads against Republican Ellen Sauerbrey in the 1998 Maryland gubernatorial race, accusing her of having "a civil rights record to be ashamed of." To really drive the point home, Shrum's ads showed sad-looking black people in front of a mural of Africa.
Of course, if I were forced to appear in political ads for Bob Shrum, I'd be sad, too.
With cockfighting bans and heterosexual proms, Martin Luther King's work remains unfinished!
Half a century ago, Democrats beat up the Freedom Riders. Today the Democrats insult the Freedom Riders by comparing them to irritating lesbians, lawsuit-happy disabled persons and cockfighters.
From www.vancouversun.com:
Ann Coulter’s appearance in Calgary at U of C’s Red and White Club
comes just days after the pundit’s scheduled event at University of Ottawa
caused such a stir that police were forced to cancel her talk
amid raucous student protests. Stuart Gradon, Canwest News Service
I think cockfighting should be legal.
"I just want to say: I think it's fantastic that the Democrats have finally come out against race discrimination.Any day now, maybe they'll come out for fighting the Cold War.
Perhaps 100 years from now, they'll be ready to fight the war on terrorism or champion the rights of the unborn.
It would be a big help, though, if Democrats could support good causes when it mattered." - Ann Coulter
June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate.
The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.
As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.
Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.
The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive 67th vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century's towering legislative achievements.
# # #
And of course there are all the lesbians shutting down high school proms across the country because they can’t take their girlfriends to the dance as the Founding Fathers intended.
LOL she’s awesome.
Good one this week!
"Twisting a conservative's words in order to accuse him of racism was evidently more urgent news than the fact that the attorney general of the United States admitted last week -- under oath in a congressional hearing -- that he had not read the 10-page Arizona law on illegal immigration, the very law he was noisily threatening to overturn.ZING!And really, how could the U.S. attorney general have time to read a 10-page law when he's busy doing all the Sunday morning TV shows condemning it? - Ann Coulter
And from gopbriefingroom.com:
The whole point is to prevent any kind of discrimination at all by anyone about anything, ever. Being discriminating is a good thing, but discrimination is another word that has been tarred and feathered by the left.
"We're losing the language." -- Rush Limbaugh
Another great one from the Great Ann.
This is a good example of how stupid the state run media thinks their audience is. They want to turn this into a simple “racist” moment for a politician they don’t like.
But everyone paying attention, and there are more everyday, knows that what Paul said was had he been there at the time (1964) there would have been some discussion about the provisions effecting private business. The other 90% of the Act he favored.
These days the federal government is so far up our asses that we forget it wasn’t always this way.
In 1964, passing a federal law that defined how a private business should behave was still new. They didn’t regulate everything from toilets to accounting to hiring to access, etc., etc. And at the time, having a federal law that told private business how to behave was a new and potentially dangerous precedent.
And Paul was right. Today, every business has so many government regulations on top of them it seems quaint to consider that there was once a time when we could have stopped it.
But of course, anything less that total supplication to absolute control by the Federal Leviathan is bad according to the media and political class.
Ann is on fire again, as always.
BTW, does anyone know: has Ann been ill lately?? When I’ve seen her on tv (which seems to be less and less), her personal “spark” seems to have diminished a bit—and though she is still stunning in a physical sense, her eyes seem to be a bit TOO “made up”; the false eyelashes are way over the top.
I hope she is okay, I know she recently lost her mom and her friend Ron Silver....perhaps those traumas and the book tours, etc. are wearing her down a bit.
The fact of the matter is as well this un-Constitutional power of dictating to private business who they must be associated with and do business with is still being expanded today by the progressive movement thus making Rand Paul’s statement extremely relevant and worthy of debate.
The democrats (progressives) want of course to dictate to private entities that they must associate with openly perverse behavior as well. Both homosexuality and transexuality are being pushed to be forced on all of society today in a bill called ENDA.
So how far can the right to association be trashed and taken from us?
Also on a side note:
Though Rand Paul weakly made a stand for the right to association, his father Ron Paul has voted for a bill that would force all military personnel to have to associate (bunk and shower) with people expressing openly homosexual behavior. There is now an extreme double-standard in the military whereas men and women are separated in facilities based upon discrimination of possible heterosexual behavior but then the same right to separation in facilities is not given in regards to homosexual behavior. It is very ironic that the Paul duo are so inconsistent in this regard.