Ann Coulter: Donkey trapped in elephant's body

WorldNetDaily ^ | April 21, 2004 | Ann Coulter

[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.

[alloysteel]

Ann makes her feelings pretty plain on Arlen Specter

[ken5050]

Gawd, the woman has an awesome turn of phrase...you know, Spector got Bush to campaign for him....Toomey should get Annto deliver this speech about 20x all over the state in the next few days....The race has the smell of an upset int he making...

[ken5050]

and please note my tagline........(G)

[TheOldRepublic]

Tell it Ann!

[Tribune7]

ping

[AuH2ORepublican]

Ann Coulter let's Arlen have it.

[IronJack]

Don't forget that Specter also voted against the impeachment of the Slick One, joined in his "principled stand" by the likes of Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and John Chaffee. Every one of these people is a disgrace. Thankfully, we've managed to expunge Jeffords. It's time the rest got their papers, starting with Arlen.

[Gritty]

We need to get rid of Specter.

[eureka!]

Nicely done Ann, as usual. My hope of hopes is that Arlen gets the boot. "Not proven under Scottish Law" was too much. GoToomeyGo...

[BibChr]

What she said.

(c8

[JenB]

Thanks for the ping. I avoid Ann Coulter thread because the buckets of drool get old, but this was good reading.

I'm cautiously hopeful about this race.

[fr_freak]

In deference to Freeper tradition:

[luvbach1]

Ann writes like a man. Forget the chauvinist charge, I intend that as a compliment akin to Maggie Thatcher had brass b--ls.

[fr_freak]

Here's one with her prom date, heh:

[RBroadfoot]

Ann makes her feelings pretty plain on Arlen Specter

Ann ALWAYS makes her feelings plain.

[pax_et_bonum]

ping

[Paul_B]

> They just sit around waiting for the Supreme Court to give them the "nine thumbs up!" sign

Make that merely a "five thumbs up" sign, unfortunately.

Great piece, Ann.

[ExSoldier]

"Ann ALWAYS makes her feelings plain."

Except she's wrong in her adoration of Bork unless she is deliberately ignoring his stance on the 2nd Amendment which was decidedly ANTI.

[Eva]

Even if Toomey loses, we'd be better off with a Democrat than with Specter, chairing the judiciary committee. Can they stop him from taking the chair if he is re-elected?

[el_texicano]

Stop him from taking the chair??? I heard yes. There was some parlimentary maneuvers they can do if they got the cajones for it. So, yes he can be "neutralized", but the question will remain, Will they?

[WorkingClassFilth]

Specter has been a blockage in the colon of the Party for a long, long time. Remember that he was the author of the "magic bullet theory" that tied up the strings in the Kennedy assassination. I think it's high time for a satisfying movement.

[Rummyfan]

Bump for Ann Coulter!

[Fester Chugabrew]

I can understand the frustrations with this RINO in a GIRAFFES body, but he made points as he addressed the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill fiasco. He voted to approve Clarence Thomas.

[ex-snook]

Bork Specter the RINO. PA needs another Santorum.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

ANN COULTER NAILS IT!! SPECTER NEEDS TO BE PUT OUT TO PASTURE!

[Temple Owl]

Thanks for the ping. I wish Ann Coulter was on the Supreme Court.

[Tribune7]

Well if Toomey wins . . .

[Waco]

Flag burning is legal. So, burn a few U.N. flags, and discover the secret exception to the court ruling.

[BraveMan]

[BobS]

That's a new one here. Thanks for honoring tradition:)

[SevenDaysInMay]

G.W., Ann Coulter must be nominated to our SCOTUS. The debate would be American theater.

O'Conner is either too sick or insane, under new EUropean and world legal definition trends. Either way, she is patently unfit to preside over her fellow citizens.

McSpecter is a dishonorble, devious slimeball - who might just have dealt himself a $weet deal with his preposterous vote on the serial felon president Bill.

[Mr. K]

ANN I AM STILL WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE TO MY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL!!!


(The woman is being coy- I know it...)

[Mr Rogers]

Ann makes her feelings pretty plain on Arlen Specter

Ann ALWAYS makes her feelings plain.

More importantly, Ann makes her THOUGHTS plain. We have ample idiots espousing their feelings.

[spodefly]

[Eva]

Thanks, for the information. We should start the call for No more Specter on the judiciary committee, even if he wins re-election. After reading that article by Manuel Miranda, I feel betrayed by both Hatch and Specter. Maybe even more so by Hatch, because we all knew what Specter was.

[rebelyell]

Coulter rocks, as usual. Arlen Specter is a piece of crap.. I am ashamed that he is a republican and I am ashamed that he is a Senator. I hope he gets his ass stomped...in the primary by a real conservative or in the general by someone who accepts that he is a democrap.

[Erik Latranyi]

...Toomey should get Ann to deliver this speech...

That's the only things that is holding Toomey back from a complete trouncing of Specter --- his inability to be really passionate and lively when on camera. If Toomey had 1/2 the guts of Rick Santorum, this primary would be a formality.

[Pharmboy]

Specter is an annoying, self-important (remember the "Scottish Law" speech during impeachment?), phoney POS. Arlen, just go away.

[Iam1ru1-2]

Did Bush give a speech during his rally support for A. Specter? Why is he supporting someone who believes everything that Bush despises? I'm beginning to think that Bush's exposure to too many democrats is starting to rub off, like his support for amnesty for "Ilegal aliens", and his support for "homosexual unions", and now this! Where is this guy going?

[AmishDude]

PA Pubbies will get cold feet.

[Rummyfan]

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.

[BibChr]

Don't you!

[TOUGH STOUGH]

"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!!!!!!!!!!

[AmishDude]

Well, I'm an ex-Pennsylvanian, so I just get to watch.

[skinkinthegrass]

...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. :/

[TOUGH STOUGH]

Ping!

[ladyinred]

Ann if you are reading this, you are the best!

Spector is a MOLE!

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Here's a black and white photo for the color blind among us:

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

[MARTIAL MONK]

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.