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Skriven 2008-02-08 05:22:00 av TIM RICHARDSON
     Kommentar till en text av RICHARD WEBB
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FROM GOLDWATER GIRL TO HILLARY GIRL

February 6, 2008


Nominating McCain is the gesture of a desperate party.


Republicans are so shell-shocked and demoralized by the success of the Bush
Derangement Syndrome, they think they can fool the voters by nominating an
open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric,
pro-human experimentation "Republican." Which is to say, a Democrat.


As the expression goes, given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat,
voters will always choose the Democrat. The only question remaining is:
Hillary or Obama?


On the litmus test issues of our time, only partially excluding Iraq, McCain
is a liberal.


-- He excoriated Samuel Alito as too "conservative."


-- He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants.


-- He abridged citizens' free speech (in favor of the media) with
McCain-Feingold.


-- He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down
Guantanamo.


Can I take a breath now?


-- He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.


-- He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with
fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels.


The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in
endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic.


Although McCain has the minimum pro-life record demanded by the voters of
Arizona, in 2006, McCain voted in favor of using taxpayer funds to harvest
stem cells from human embryos. He opposes a constitutional amendment to
protect human life. And he frets that if Roe v. Wade were overruled, women's
lives would be "endangered." This is the same John McCain who chides Mitt
Romney today for "flip-flopping" on abortion. At least Romney flips and stays
there.


Of course the most important issue for pro-lifers is the Supreme Court. As
long as Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, it doesn't matter how many hearts
and minds we've changed. So it's not insignificant that McCain has called
Justice Samuel Alito too conservative.


We ended up with David Hackett Souter when a Republican president was
actually looking for an Alito. Imagine how bad it will be when the
"Republican" president isn't even trying.


McCain uses the boilerplate language of all Republicans in saying he will
appoint "strict constructionists." This is supposed to end all discussion of
the courts. But if he's picking strict constructionists, he will have to
appoint judges who will commit to overturning McCain-Feingold.


That could be our litmus test: Will you hold President McCain's signature
legislation restricting speech unconstitutional?


In 2004, McCain criticized the federal marriage amendment, saying, it was
"antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans." Really?
Preventing the redefinition of a 10,000-year-old institution -- marriage,
that is, not John McCain -- is part of the core philosophy of being a
Republican? I had no idea.


I'm not a lawyer -- oh wait, yes, I am -- but Republicans were proposing to
amend the Constitution, a process the Constitution specifically describes.


It's like saying it's antithetical to the core philosophy of Republicans to
require presidents to be at least 35 years old. It's in the Constitution! And
Republicans -- other than the ones who voted for McCain-Feingold -- support
the Constitution. You might say it's part of our core philosophy.


Of course, back in 2004, McCain was considering running on a presidential
ticket with John Kerry. Realizing that this would not help his chances to run
as a Republican in 2008, when he would be a mere 120 years old, McCain
quickly withdrew his interest in being on Kerry's ticket.


But he defended Kerry from the Bush campaign's suggestion that Kerry was not
tip-top on national security, saying on the "Today" show: "No, I do not
believe that he is, quote, weak on defense." So that was helpful.


McCain also explained to an admiring press corps why he wouldn't want to be
anyone's vice president, not even a national defense champion like Kerry,
citing the meager constitutional duties of the vice president as: (1) to
assume the presidency if the president is incapacitated and (2) "to break a
tie vote in the Senate." (At which point several members of the fawning horde
were heard to remark, "What is this 'Constitution' you speak of, Senator?")


But McCain conveniently forgot the second of these constitutional duties just
a year later when Vice President Cheney was required "to break a tie vote in
the Senate" on a matter of utmost importance to liberals: federal judges.


Just one year after McCain had correctly identified one of two jobs of the
vice president, he was indignant that a Republican vice president might
actually exercise one of them. Better to let a gaggle of 14 Senate
malcontents pick the president's judges for him.


As part of the "Gang of 14," McCain hysterically opposed allowing the vice
president to break a tie on judicial nominations. Following the Constitution
with regard to the role of the vice president, McCain said, "would be a
terrible precedent." Yes, if members of Congress actually read the
Constitution, they might realize McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional.


If Hillary is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with
Republicans ferociously opposing her, followed by Republicans zooming back
into power, as we did in 1980 and 1994, and 2000. (I also predict more Oval
Office incidents with female interns.)


If McCain is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with the
Republicans in Congress co-opted by "our" president, followed by 30 years of
Democratic rule.


There's your choice, America.


COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER








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