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Ann Coulter: Party of Adultery and Abortion Takes A Hit
Human Events ^ | 11/8/02 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 11/08/2002 3:06:20 PM PST by Jean S

It was a stunning, record-breaking night. George Bush is the first President in 68 years to gain seats in his first midterm election. Historically, the party in the White House loses seats in the midterm election. This is true even in wartime: Franklin D. Roosevelt lost 50 House seats and eight Senate seats 10 months after Pearl Harbor.

Though Democrats gleefully cite the midterm election of 1998 when the Democrats picked up six House seats—and no Senate seats—that was Clinton’s second midterm election. Republicans had already realized all their midterm gains in Clinton’s first midterm election. In the very first election after people got a look at Clinton in 1994, Republicans picked up 52 seats in the House, eight seats in the Senate, 11 governorships and 12 state legislative chambers. Not a single Republican incumbent lost.

Thanks to Clinton, the ’94 Republican sweep marked the first time in half a century that Republicans had a majority in the House. (It was one of many historic moments in the Clinton Administration—another being "First President accused of rape within weeks of being impeached.") That sweep meant voters in about 50 congressional districts had done something they had never done before in their entire lives: Vote Republican in a congressional election. There was no reason to expect lifelong Democrats in those districts to keep voting Republican in every successive election.

To the contrary, Democrats should have won back a lot of the seats they lost in 1994. By the standard of historical averages, in the 1998 midterm election, the Democrats should have won back 22 House seats. Instead they won only six seats. The average midterm loss this past century is 30 seats in the House. Clinton’s average was 46.

The media billed the Democrats’ paltry gain in 1998 as a victory for Clinton and revulsion with impeachment for the same reason they say Bush "stole" the presidential election. Liberals love to lie. (Someone should write a book about that.)

By contrast, in Bush’s first midterm election last week, Republicans made spectacular gains all over the country. It was such a blowout that over on CBS, Dan Rather had to keep retelling viewers about Sen. Lautenberg’s victory in New Jersey. (Good thing Election Day finally came without another Democrat realizing the voters were on to him, or the Democrats might have had to unwrap Tutankhamen.)

All night, victories rolled in for Republicans, even shocking victories no one had expected. They picked up seats in the House and Senate. Republicans won a double whammy with Democrat-target Jeb Bush winning in Florida and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend losing in Maryland. Democratic bête noire Katherine Harris won her congressional election. In stunning upsets, Republicans won the governorships in Hawaii and Georgia. The Republican juggernaut could not be stopped.

Democrats may be forced to shut down operations as a party and re-enter politics under a different name. The party formerly known as "the Democratic Party" will henceforth be doing business under the name "the Abortion Party."

That would have the virtue of honesty. Love of abortion is the one irreducible minimum of the Democratic Party. Liberals don’t want to go to war with Saddam Hussein, but they do want to go to war to protect Roe v. Wade.

Inasmuch as George Bush rather than Barbra Streisand will be picking our federal judges, even now liberals are sharpening their character assassination techniques. People for the American Way—representing Americans up and down the Malibu beachfront—are already lining up lying Anita Hills to accuse Bush’s judicial nominees of lynching blacks and burning crosses.

This is precisely the sort of Clintonian viciousness that Americans indicated they were sick of on election night. The Democrats’ motorcycle rally-cum-funeral in Minnesota for Paul Wellstone exposed the party’s character in a pellucid, dramatic way. It was so revolting, people couldn’t avert their eyes from the spectacle. The only moral compass liberals have is their own will to power. Even the deaths of three members of a family could not slow them down.

If the party formerly known as "the Democrats" doesn’t like the factually correct "Abortion Party," how about "the Adultery Party"? Noticeably, the only incumbent Republican senator to lose was Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas, who left his wife for a staffer a few years ago. I’m proud to be a member of a party that still frowns on that sort of thing.

The end result of a Democratic President’s being caught in an adulterous affair with an intern was: Two Republicans resigned from Congress. Meanwhile, the felon in the White House was revered as a latter-day George Washington by the Adultery Party. And consider that Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston were mere congressmen. Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart are deemed presidential material by the Adultery Party.

What a miserable party. I’m glad to see their power end, and I’m sure they’ll all be perfectly comfortable in their cells in Guantanamo. As Jesse Helms said on Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980: God has given America one more chance.


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To: God is good
Poor sampling; Paul Browne is only one of many. I've met plenty of Libertarians who agree with Roe v. Wade as well as legalized prostitution and drugs.

Actually, the nominees were Ron Paul (88), and Harry Browne (96&00). Paul is resolutely pro-Life on all matters, and Browne believes that Roe should be overturned and the issue (since it is a question of Murder Law) be Constitutionally returned to the States (per Amendments IX and X).

As to the other issues, while God made baby-murder illegal in Israel, He did not make Intoxication illegal (even though alcohol, opium, and hashish were all well known at the time). Prostitutes were forbidden to tithe their "earnings", but only Priests's daughters were subjected to Legal Penalty (i.e., death by burning) for the Vice.

Do you suppose God just forgot to make these laws?

Or do you suppose that the Christian Gospel is about breaking into somebody's house and putting a gun to their heads to prevent Private Intoxication? WWJD? If you can't imagine Jesus behaving in such a manner... don't vote for it.

41 posted on 11/08/2002 3:58:55 PM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: JeanS
ping
42 posted on 11/08/2002 3:59:01 PM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: ravinson
Horse manure. To judge a writer you have to read more than one article.
43 posted on 11/08/2002 3:59:12 PM PST by RKV
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To: PsyOp
Ummm, Sacramento is pretty Conservative, perhaps you mean the Gay Area?

Cheers

knews hound

44 posted on 11/08/2002 3:59:56 PM PST by knews_hound
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To: Revolting cat!
fOR SURE!! lOVE THOSE EUPHEMISMS. TRUTH IS - IT'S PRO-LIFE OR PRO-DEATH. THE CHOICE IS TO CHOOSE DEATH!!
45 posted on 11/08/2002 4:00:54 PM PST by Canadian Outrage
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To: ravinson
Who is more likely to commit adultury within the week, President Bush or Bill Clinton? Which camp champions the cause of adultury as a basic right?

Go get any 20 Republicans off the street and any 20 Democrates. Then ask each one who is more likely to vote for a candidate based on character.
46 posted on 11/08/2002 4:03:13 PM PST by God is good
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To: ravinson
Moreover, being pro-choice is not the same as being pro-abortion

Of course it does. It means you're in favor of abortions being performed. That's pro-abortion.

47 posted on 11/08/2002 4:03:21 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: ravinson
You can read for yourself here.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400046610/ref=lib_rd_next_6/002-0442321-0465651?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=6#reader-link
48 posted on 11/08/2002 4:04:16 PM PST by RKV
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To: onedoug
Ahem...Put a few pinpoint red dots on that Los Angeles map...Our feet are hurting from the broken glass walk!
49 posted on 11/08/2002 4:04:18 PM PST by lainde
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To: Cicero
It's not? The distinction escapes me. Where have you been the past 30 years? Pro-choice is nothing but a weasel-worded Orwellian obfuscation for pro-abort.

Think about all the things that you wouldn't do or encourage others to do yet you think should be legal. Does that make you pro-adultery, pro-alcohol, pro-cigarettes, pro-rap music, pro-voting for Democrats, etc.? Of course not, and conservatives' inability to recognize that distinction hurts their cause and just makes them look like idiotic zealots.

50 posted on 11/08/2002 4:06:42 PM PST by ravinson
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To: NEWwoman
You may be right on. Isn't most of the porn industry concentrated in San Fernando Valley? Davis won by 55% there!
51 posted on 11/08/2002 4:08:10 PM PST by FreedomCalls
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To: Canadian Outrage
IT'S PRO-LIFE OR PRO-DEATH

So true. 10 yrs in prison if you smash the eggs in a bald eagle's nest. Why? Are eggs protected? Is there some life form there?

52 posted on 11/08/2002 4:09:45 PM PST by Mark
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To: ravinson
Neither Ann Coulter's approach nor your approach is advancing conservatism.

Get a clue brother...she gets people fired up and enthusiastic about being conservative...she is a total babe, way smart...and she is a republican...If that doesnt advance conservatisim your frankly clueless

But then again, maybe you can lead us to the promised land Moses...

You are really arogant...and thats ok...

I wait with breathless anticipation for your works that tie together all of the abstract concepts of conservatisim...

53 posted on 11/08/2002 4:11:30 PM PST by antaresequity
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To: knews_hound
Right. Sacramento is conservative.

Even the "Gay" area has it's bright spots.

Michael Savage of the the "Savage Nation" got his start in "occupied San Francisco." He had the highest ratings in his time slot for the Bay Area, indicating there are a lot of conservatives there. Unfornately, conservatives seem to be in the minority - though it is a large minority.
54 posted on 11/08/2002 4:11:51 PM PST by NEWwoman
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To: knews_hound
I believe I said [B]ay Area. As for Sacramento, I mention them as the seat of California's leftist government. Did voters in Sac go for Simon or Davis?
55 posted on 11/08/2002 4:12:16 PM PST by PsyOp
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To: ravinson; Cicero
Think about all the things that you wouldn't do or encourage others to do yet you think should be legal. Does that make you pro-adultery, pro-alcohol, pro-cigarettes, pro-rap music, pro-voting for Democrats, etc.? Of course not, and conservatives' inability to recognize that distinction hurts their cause and just makes them look like idiotic zealots.

The above picture is one of the following:

Please choose your answer carefully, this test will be graded.

56 posted on 11/08/2002 4:12:53 PM PST by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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To: Lizavetta
But when you stand by and watch evil happen, even though you personally wouldn't do the evil, you are on the side of evil.

Even if you could prove that abortion is evil, there would still be a moral difference between (a) not using force to restrain it and (b) actively promoting it. I'd bet that you're doing nothing to actively prevent murders happening all over the world, yet that doesn't make you "pro-murder".

57 posted on 11/08/2002 4:13:21 PM PST by ravinson
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To: NEWwoman
All the gays (95% liberal RATs) moved from everywhere else to SF. When I was a kid, back in the stone ages, it was just another (nice) big city.
58 posted on 11/08/2002 4:14:15 PM PST by RKV
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To: ravinson
More left wing lies and hate. The Republicans never made his adultry an issue. And it should've been. He lied under oath, he was held in contempt of court and he is impeached! DuH/ Need a clue?
Stop spreading this left wing garbage.
59 posted on 11/08/2002 4:15:12 PM PST by ChiMark
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To: FreedomCalls
I believe so.

To give credit were credit is due, it was Michael Savage that coined the term "porn belt." And made the connection to the porn industry.

BTW, he also coined the term "compassionate conservative."
60 posted on 11/08/2002 4:16:24 PM PST by NEWwoman
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