Then again, I also think O'Reilly is hilarious.
Distance probably helps.
On Feb 7, 2008 1:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>
> From Goldwater Girl to Hillary Girl
> by Ann Coulter
> Posted: 02/06/2008
>
> 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.
>
> ----
>
> Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and
> author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to
> a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," and most recently, "If Democrats
> Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans."
>
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