Public Advocate: "We'd have fought for an Ann Coulter SCOTUS nomination"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

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.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200510040006

[bluestateguy]

1. I would take a leave of absence from my job to fight her nomination

Half of the conservatives I know are embarassed by Coulter.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Annthrax Coulter on the Supreme Court?

Now THAT would be horrific.

[Fridays Child]

3. My passport would come out of the file cabinet so fast...

...the folder would be smoking.