Posted on 11/06/2004 5:11:17 AM PST by Always Right
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
PLEASE insure that I'm on your ping list.
THANKS TONS FOR ALL YOU'RE DOING.
i THINK we would do well to enlist our personal networks as much as possible.
And, above all, to pray.
Also, to repeatedly contact by different means, perhaps by different addy's the key decision influencers.
thanks
I agree, it is not an eiher or question. One is good, but both would be fantastic.
Specter is by no means one of us. Same goes for Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and obviously Lincoln Chafee. Bush and Santorum made a gesture of good will towards Specter and backed his re-election. Specter's repaid that kindness with treachery. He has no business being on the judiciary committee, let alone heading it.
Yes -- this is absolutely worth bugging our personal contacts over because we are staring at an imminent Supreme Court nomination.
Writing today,calling Monday BUMP!
Faxed and then sent an e-mail yesterday to Frist not bothering to copy my current Senators (Schumer and hillary)who only echo Specters sentiments. Apparently word has spread as Judy Woodruff made mention of the barrage of e-mails and calls Frist has received.
this story is on CNN and Foxnews today. Keep up the calls good Freepers!
Why again are we attacking a Republican? Because Lara Lakes Jordan told us to... and who is she? The wife of Dem operative Jim Jordan who was the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and one of the managers of Kerry's campaign. The "Specter warns" story that started this entire "crisis" was written by her as an AP "journalist".
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/109952124527450.xml&storylist=politics
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32268
It was a set-up. It was what we call in the news business a "hatchet job." Rick Santorum is a young, good-looking, articulate conservative in the Senate's Republican leadership. He was deliberately targeted by a political activist disguised as a reporter – Lara Jakes Jordan.
I invite you to read her original story and see for yourself how it is dripping in venom. It's an editorial camouflaged as a news story. And she wrote it for the largest and most powerful news-gathering operation in the world, ensuring it would get maximum play in newspapers throughout the world.
Who is Lara Jakes Jordan?
For starters, she is married to veteran Democratic Party operative Jim Jordan, the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid.
Not surprisingly, the Massachusetts Democrat was among the first to criticize Santorum's remarks, using it as an opportunity to attack the White House. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kerry got an advance copy of the article given his connections.
But there's more to the Lara Jakes Jordan story.
In January of this year, Mrs. Jordan was one of the signatories on a letter to her bosses at the AP attacking the news organization for "rolling back diversity" by not extending benefits to domestic partners.
In a symbolic move, the signatories to the letter returned key chains AP management gave them to "celebrate" its corporate diversity. The key chains carried the slogan: "AP Diversity: Many Views, One Vision.
It seems Mrs. Jordan's ideological fervor is not reserved only for her private life and her corporate politicking. This woman clearly ambushed Santorum on an issue near and dear to her bleeding heart.
I've been in the daily news business for 25 years. When I got started a quarter century ago, there was an old newsroom saying that went like this: "I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."
Mrs. Jordan violated that old newsroom ethic. She abdicated her right to cover the circus because she was sleeping with an elephant – or, in this case, a donkey.
That's why I say these catcalls for the head of Rick Santorum are nothing more than a political sideshow. It's not Rick Santorum who should be forced from office for clearly stating views that have been considered mainstream for the last 5,000 years. It's Lara Jakes Jordan who should be drummed out of the news profession for scoring cheap political points under the guise of news reporting.
It's not Rick Santorum who should apologize to anyone. It's the Associated Press for sponsoring this political hit piece.
Because Lara Lakes Jordan told us to. She is the AP "journalist" who wrote the "Specter warns" story... she is also coincidentally the wife of Dem operative Jim Jordan who helped run Kerry's campaign and was also the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Great Job! I appreciate all you are putting into this!
I knew the timing of Lara Lakes Jordan's article was suspicious.
It's beyond 'just a possibility' now; it has become probable, but we must not slack off.
I emailed Senator Frist and made my desires known in a very strong but respectful way.
I will call the offices of my 2 Senators, Shelby and Sessions, and Senator Frist next week.
If we all do something........anything...........it will put our voice out there.
Keep them on purpose an Bork Kerry ~ Bump!
This question only serves to confuse the issue by implying that Specter is being attacked because he isn't a "pure" Republican -- not conservative enough for the Far Right crowd here on FR.
Specter is not being attacked because he's not a rock-ribbed conservative. Specter is being attacked because he is a pro-abortion advocate who is in a position to impose his views on the Judiciary Committee in the Senate.
If Specter were to head the Finance Committee, you would not be hearing this great hue-and-cry. Specter is a very moderate Republican who tends to support the democrat position as much as he supports the Republican one. In the Finance Committee, the Armed Services Committee, or the Appropriations Committee, Specter's leadership would be annoying, but could be overcome. As chairman of Judiciary, however, Specter has control over Bush's judicial nominees.
If Specter were to step down from Judiciary, this would go away.
ummmmm.... Laura Ingraham herself clerked at the Supreme court, and she backs this project, that is why we are going after Specter, not bc of some AP journalist. And he is R in name only, not ONE OF OUR OWN. he said that Roe v. Wade is sacrosanct as Brown v. Board of Ed. He borked Bork. he is NOT trustworthy on judiciary, MAYBE Frist could keep his feet to the fire, but Frist hasn't shown himself to have all that much moxy either, so i would prefer to not see Arleen in the chairman's seat.
Tamsey- here's the problem with your reasoning: Yes, we should consider the biased source. But it's a matter of record whether or not Specter made the remarks and exposed his real thinking.
If he didn't issue that warning, what possible motviation could the reporter have for "doing a hatchet job" on Specter-- an unpopular RINO who couldn't deliver Pa. for Bush, is more in line with the Dem's judical philosophy, and whose demise would likely lead to installing a true conservative as committee chair?
The "hatchet job" excuse for Specter doesn't make any sense.
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