Public Advocate's Delgaudio: If Ann Coulter had been nominated to Supreme Court, "we would have fought for her"
In an October 3 interview on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Eugene Delgaudio, president of conservative group Public Advocate of the United States -- which recently described the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court as "a betrayal of the conservative, pro-family voters whose support put Bush in the White House" -- stated that if the president had nominated right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, "we would have fought for her."
Coulter, like Miers, has no experience as a judge. But she has offered up her opinions on several legal issues:
- Coulter has claimed that reporters and liberals "want it to be against the law to be a Republican, and they would like us in Guantánamo."
- Coulter has also theorized that the only way a Supreme Court nominee could win the support of NARAL Pro-Choice America or Planned Parenthood would be "to actually perform an abortion during his confirmation hearing, live, on camera, and preferably a partial birth one."
- Coulter blamed an Arizona county attorney for dropping the charges against two men accused of throwing pies at Coulter during an October 2004 speech. But as Media Matters noted at the time, the charges were dropped after both Coulter and the arresting officer failed to appear in court for the trial.
Public Advocate describes itself as "a dedicated group of young conservatives in Washington, D.C." who are "defending the rights of fathers, mothers and children to live their lives free from government intrusions and the self-serving motives of liberal special interests and agendas," with particular attention to opposing abortion and the rights of gays and lesbians. The group spent more than $5 million between 1997 and 2000 "on a nationwide campaign that has often vilified gays as pedophiles and violent criminals," according to an April 8, 2002, Washington Post article. Delgaudio, a member of the Loudoun County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors, also opposed recently confirmed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., telling a press conference that "Judge Roberts assisted the forces that would criminalize Christianity" by offering legal advice to gay-rights advocates, the Post reported on August 11.
From the October 3 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: Well, my next guest says that President Bush's nomination of Miers is a betrayal to the conservatives who helped put him and keep him in the White House. Joining me now is Eugene Delgaudio, he's the president of Public Advocate. You're not happy; why not?
DELGAUDIO: It's a very sad situation. I promise not to do any singing, though. It's a bad situation for us who have spent a lifetime here in Washington working for the conservative movement, working for the conservative causes. We are -- were expecting a [sic] originalist, a constructionist, and here we have someone that -- once again, you have to wink, and you have to blink, and you have to look the other way --
CAVUTO: Wait a sec, what are you looking at? There's no trail to see whether she's any of these things or not.
DELGAUDIO: Well, that's what we got with Roberts, and the onus is not on conservatives to prove that she's a liberal, the onus is on the president -- and my position is -- to prove that she's conservative. It's not for me to prove that she's a liberal, it's for them to prove that she's actually a conservative, and we're not getting that.
CAVUTO: Do you think that some of the choices that you would've wanted, maybe Priscilla Owen or some of the others, that they would've gotten through the Senate without a filibuster risk, and maybe the president said, you know, "I don't know if it's worth it"?
DELGAUDIO: I am very sympathetic to that, like I said, I've been here for 25 years. Ann Coulter, non-judge, we would've fought for her. Senator [Edward] Kennedy [D-MA] would have been mad at her, but it would've been one hell of a fight, wouldn't it have been? Ann Coulter, Supreme Court justice.
CAVUTO: I'm assuming that Ann might not have been that interested in that. Where do you see all this going?
Justice Ann Coulter. Sounds kind of like fingernails on the blackboard.
This Public Advocate group is apparently another half-baked reactionary money-generating "think tank". On their website they list these things that they favor:
* A federal marriage amendment to the Constitution and an end to lawful same sex marriage;
* Equality under the law, regardless of one's sexual orientation.
Just a little inconsistent, huh? I can see now why they like Ann.
Oh my god.
Does it really say that on their site? I'm gonna check that right now.
That's just tooo perfect!
off topic, sorry ... deeznuts, that is one of the finest rap songs ever created !
To quote Laurence Harvey: "Oh God, Ben."
To say that Coulter doesn't have the temperament to be a judge (on any court) is probably the understatement of the year, century, etc. Coulter's too in love with herself.
I would have loved to see Ann Coulter nominated to the Supreme Court, going ballistic on the senators at confirmation hearings, giving that godawful blank stare when she encounters a statement that makes sense. And if by some twist of providence Became a supreme court justice, she would probably advocate revoking the constitution and the bill of rights, yeah, she would probably even instigate the next American Revolution, which would'nt be such a bad thing. I can't even believe that News Corp's, Fox News, has her as some sort of so called Contributor? to what? Stupidity? And based on her writing a book or two? or belonging to a "Don't Think" Tank? I don't believe she has ever really written a book, probably uses ghost writers, like Carl Rove and and some unknown demented nazi living in the dark recesses in the basement of the white house to fill in the blanks, which is all she could muster with the IQ of a knuckle dragging she ape, blanks. She is--the Official Grand duchess and parrot of the RNC's Talking Points. I feel sorry for her, being a political prostitute and all.
Justice Ann Coulter! Pffffttthahahaa! That just made my day.
would she carry a big stick to hit the liberal justices with? would she call for bill clinton's assassination? would she want a truck bomb parked outside of the new york times? and more importantly, would these things come under strict constructionism?
The fact that someone who is this crazy got on the air is disturbing. Perhaps he is really a satirist of neocon's and their delusions. That makes more sense because he can't be serious.
I am going with Delgaudio is the neo-con Mark Twain. He was definitely trying to be humorous by picking possibly the most extreme case. He trying to put a human face on a group that reading Nerzog's post grinds logic and my guess is a whole host of people between their alter and Bible. Delgaudio has a tough gig, if that is his aim.
How can anyone take any of these groups serious after such a ridiculous statement? This is the same woman who argued during an interview on the CBC that Canada assisted the United States during the Vietnam War. Yeah, I would label that a great mind.
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Ann Coulter has exposed herself as a media whore who is only interested in furthering her career as a Republican shill by making outrageous comments that display her: 1.hatred of progressive thought, 2.bigotry, 3.love of super-conservative policies. She also seems to be utterly devoid of any ability to rationally argue with those who disagree with her extreme views.
My question is this: was this dork joking? He didn't appear to be. I would have to guess that he was based on how utterly ridiculous his statement was, but its hard to be sure anymore. Two more quickies: 1. Doesn't this guy look like the warden from "Shawshank Redemption"? 2. If Coulter was ever put on the Supreme Court I'm just gonna go outside and look up for the pale horsemen that will be flying around up there.
So unless you've been nominated to the Supreme Court, you can't criticize Supreme Court nominees? This sort of qualitative test does nothing but stifle public debate.
better mann coulter than roy moore.
on second thought ... maybe not.