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On 17 Oct 2005 00:02:21 -0700, "Trace" <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
>Holding Court
>There's a crackdown over Miers, not a "crackup."
>
>BY RUSH LIMBAUGH
>Monday, October 17, 2005 12:01 a.m.
>
>I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our
>philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for
>new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of
>reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals. We are
>confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them.
>We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the
>rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We
>support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform,
>faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war
>on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most
>magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S.
>Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which
>recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation
>on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a
>people.
>
>We conservatives are never stronger than when we are advancing our
>principles. And that's the nature of our current debate over the
>nomination of Harriet Miers. Will she respect the Constitution? Will
>she be an originalist who will accept the limited role of the judiciary
>to interpret and uphold it, and leave the elected branches--we, the
>people--to set public policy? Given the extraordinary power the Supreme
>Court has seized from the representative parts of our government, this
>is no small matter. Roe v. Wade is a primary example of judicial
>activism. Regardless of one's position on abortion, seven unelected and
>unaccountable justices simply did not have the constitutional authority
>to impose their pro-abortion views on the nation. The Constitution
>empowers the people, through their elected representatives in Congress
>or the state legislatures, to make this decision.
>
>Abortion is only one of countless areas in which a mere nine lawyers in
>robes have imposed their personal policy preferences on the rest of us.
>The court has conferred due process rights on terrorists detained at
>Guantanamo Bay and benefits on illegal immigrants. It has ruled that
>animated cyberspace child pornography is protected speech, but certain
>broadcast ads aired before elections are illegal; it has held that the
>Ten Commandments can't be displayed in a public building, but they can
>be displayed outside a public building; and the court has invented
>rationales to skirt the Constitution, such as using foreign law to
>strike down juvenile death penalty statutes in over a dozen states.
>
>For decades conservatives have considered judicial abuse a direct
>threat to our Constitution and our form of government. The framers
>didn't create a judicial oligarchy. They created a representative
>republic. Our opposition to judicial activism runs deep. We've
>witnessed too many occasions where Republican presidents have nominated
>the wrong candidates to the court, and we want more assurances this
>time--some proof. The left, on the other hand, sees the courts as the
>only way to advance their big-government agenda. They can't win
>national elections if they're open about their agenda. So, they seek to
>impose their policies by judicial fiat. It's time to call them on it.
>And that's what many of us had hoped and expected when the president
>made his nomination.
>
>Some liberal commentators mistakenly view the passionate debate among
>conservatives over the Miers nomination as a "crackup" on the right.
>They are giddy about "splits" in the conservative base of the GOP. They
>are predicting doom for the rest of the president's term and gloom for
>Republican electoral chances in 2006. As usual, liberals don't
>understand conservatives and never will.
>
>The Miers nomination shows the strength of the conservative movement.
>This is no "crackup." It's a crackdown. We conservatives are unified in
>our objectives. And we are organized to advance them. The purpose of
>the Miers debate is to ensure that we are doing the very best we can to
>move the nation in the right direction. And when all is said and done,
>we will be even stronger and more focused on our agenda and defeating
>those who obstruct it, just in time for 2006 and 2008. Lest anyone
>forget, for several years before the 1980 election, we had knockdown
>battles within the GOP. The result: Ronald Reagan won two massive
>landslides.
>
>The real crackup has already occurred--on the left! The Democratic
>Party has been hijacked by 1960s retreads like Howard Dean; billionaire
>eccentrics like George Soros; and leftwing computer geeks like
>Moveon.org. It nominated John Kerry, a notorious Vietnam-era antiwar
>activist, as its presidential standard-bearer. Its major spokesmen are
>old extremists like Ted Kennedy and new propagandists like Michael
>Moore. Its great presidential hope is one of the most divisive figures
>in U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton. And its favorite son is an
>impeached, disbarred, held-in-contempt ex-president, Bill Clinton.
>
>The Democratic Party today is split over the war and a host of cultural
>issues, such as same-sex marriage and partial birth abortion. It wants
>to raise taxes, but dares not say so. It can't decide what message to
>convey to the American people or how to convey it. And even its once-
>reliable allies in the big media aren't as influential in promoting the
>party and its agenda as they were in the past. The new media--talk
>radio, the Internet and cable TV--not only have a growing following,
>but have helped expose the bias and falsehoods of the big-media, e.g.,
>Dan Rather, CBS News and the forged National Guard documents. Hence,
>circulation and audience is down, and dropping.
>
>The American left is stuck trying to repeat the history of its presumed
>glory years. They hope people will see Iraq as Vietnam, the entirety of
>the Bush administration as Watergate and Hurricane Katrina as the Great
>Depression. Beyond looking to the past for their salvation, the problem
>is that they continue to deceive even themselves. None of their
>comparisons are true. Meanwhile, we conservatives will continue to
>focus on making history.
>Mr. Limbaugh is a radio-show host. This is the latest in our occasional
>series.

Only a fool like disTrace listens to the drug addled ramblings of a
windbag like Limbaugh.