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To: Man50D
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As an ex-Dem I can easily state that you are wrong on many levels. Dems don't cut taxes, appoint conservative federal judges, or aide the military. Sometimes Republicans talk a good game but don't deliver. But overall I'm far happier with Republicans than I was with Dems.

32 posted on 04/17/2007 2:27:37 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2
As an ex-Dem I can easily state that you are wrong on many levels. Dems don't cut taxes, appoint conservative federal judges, or aide the military. Sometimes Republicans talk a good game but don't deliver. But overall I'm far happier with Republicans than I was with Dems.

Republicans cut taxes? Tell that to the Republican Governor of Connecticut, Jodi Rell, wants to raise the state income tax 10% over the next two years and make it retroactive to January first of this year! I can understand your feeling happier considering you transitioned from one party dominated by socialism to one of lesser socialism but that doesn't change the fact the Republican party is becoming more socialistic.
37 posted on 04/17/2007 2:59:40 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: driftless2
Dems don't cut taxes, appoint conservative federal judges, or aide the military.

Nor will Giuliani nominate anything but the same kind of liberal judges he appointed in New York:

Judical appointments

A Politico review of the 75 judges Giuliani appointed to three of New York state's lower courts found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 8 to 1. One of his appointments was an officer of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Judges. Another ruled that the state law banning liquor sales on Sundays was unconstitutional because it was insufficiently secular.

A third, an abortion-rights supporter, later made it to the federal bench in part because New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a liberal Democrat, said he liked her ideology.

Cumulatively, Giuilani's record was enough to win applause from people like Kelli Conlin, the head of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the state's leading abortion-rights group. "They were decent, moderate people," she said.

Source: Ben Smith, The Politico, 3/1/07

One judge approved by Giuliani, Rosalyn Richter, had been executive director of a gay rights organization, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, before being named to the bench. After her initial appointment by former Mayor David N. Dinkins, Richter changed the questions asked of potential jurors to be more welcoming to gay and lesbian couples. She was later reappointed by Giuliani.

Another judge, appointed by Giuliani to the criminal bench in 1996, Dora Irizarry, has called herself pro-choice and was later elevated to the federal bench with strong support from Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

A family court judge reappointed by Giuliani, Sheldon Rand, was excoriated on the conservative-leaning New York Post editorial page last week for ruling that city funds be used to pay for a sex-change operation for an indigent New York resident.

And a fourth judge, Paula J. Hepner, appointed initially by Dinkins in 1995, issued a ruling that allowed a lesbian to adopt her partner's child. Four years later, Giuliani reappointed Hepner to New York's family court bench. Hepner was subsequently married to another woman in a ceremony in Canada.

Source: om Hamburger and Adam Schreck, Los Angeles Times, 3/12/07

63 posted on 04/17/2007 10:07:39 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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