Conservative Huckabee shakes up Republican race

Cheery conservative Huckabee shakes up Republican race
Nov 8 10:13 AM US/Eastern
Mike Huckabee, a wise-cracking, guitar-strumming, Baptist pastor has leapt into a conservative void and shot into contention in the unpredictable 2008 Republican White House race.
Huckabee, 52, was hitherto best known for being born in the same town, Hope, as Bill Clinton, and shedding more than 100 pounds from his once portly frame.
But, partly by exploiting discontent among Christian conservatives with the Republican field, Huckabee, a witty former Arkansas governor, has powered into second place in polls in Iowa, 65 days before the state’s crucial caucuses.
“The religious right vote in the Iowa caucuses is a substantial bloc, and if you secure that support you are a serious player,” said Cary Covington, a political science professor at the University of Iowa.
“Huckabee is, I think at a tipping point, he is going to need to do something splashy, a big financial haul, or a major endorsement,” Covington said.
Huckabee’s style is to leaven his staunch conservatism — pro gun rights, doubts about the theory of evolution, opposition to gay marriage, and hawkish rhetoric on Iraq and the war on terror, with levity.
At an education forum at Northern Iowa University Wednesday, Huckabee, author of a book “Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork,” slipped into stand-up comic mode when a mobile phone rang.
“That’s probably Dick Cheney wanting to take me hunting, and I am not going with him, OK?” he quipped, mocking the vice president’s infamous shooting incident.
Such patter, and the fact that several of his Republican rivals are trying to appear something they are not — lifelong social conservatives — helps Huckabee to come across as humble and at ease.
Though a conservative, Huckabee is an outspoken advocate of spending government money on education, and healthcare for poor children.
And he told students at NIU that US schools had focused too narrowly on mathematics and science — demanding the launch of “weapons of mass instruction” — music and art.
“Math and science without music and art, is like trying to fly an airplane with a wing on the left, but without one on the right,” he warned.
A bit-player at the start of the Republican race, polls now show Huckabee apparently on a roll.
In Iowa, an average by RealClearPolitics.com of recent polls has him in second place, on 15 percent and rising, behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney on 29 percent.
Nationally, a Rasmussen national daily tracking poll had Huckabee Wednesday third among Republicans, behind Rudolph Giuliani and Fred Thompson, but ahead of Senator John McCain and Romney.
Huckabee also came a strong second to Romney in a straw poll of evangelical voters recently in Washington.
He may also have another advantage, as ex-governors like Clinton, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan have dominated the presidency in recent decades.
But Huckabee will still be a longshot for the Republican nomination, even if he causes a stir in the Iowa caucuses on January 3.
Despite warm reviews from pundits, strong performances in Republican debates and backing of grass-roots conservatives, he is short of campaign cash.
Up until October, he had raised only 2.3 million dollars — limiting his capacity to mount an Iowa advertising blitz.
By comparison, Romney, who has piled millions of dollars of his own cash into the race, had raised 62 million.
Huckabee also suffers from questions about his depth. He has no foreign policy experience — a liability with Iran, Iraq and terrorism top issues.
So, Huckabee is increasingly being mentioned as a possible vice presidential pick.
As an evangelical Christian, with strong support from the “religious right” Huckabee would be a good match for Giuliani, who has alienated the bloc with his support for abortion rights and gay rights.
On a Romney ticket, Huckabee could head off suspicion among evangelical voters about the former Massachusetts governor’s Mormon religion.
And as a southerner, Huckabee could help balance a ticket with either man, both of whom made their names in the liberal northeast.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071108141300.itqpvuim&show_article=1

Bush is no Conservative: Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ

Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ
David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: October 23, 2007 07:34:58 PM
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.
“He’s a big government guy,” said Stephen Slivinski, the director of budget studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian research group.
The numbers are clear, credible and conclusive, added David Keating, the executive director of the Club for Growth, a budget-watchdog group.
“He’s a big spender,” Keating said. “No question about it.”
Take almost any yardstick and Bush generally exceeds the spending of his predecessors.
When adjusted for inflation, discretionary spending — or budget items that Congress and the president can control, including defense and domestic programs, but not entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare — shot up at an average annual rate of 5.3 percent during Bush’s first six years, Slivinski calculates.
That tops the 4.6 percent annual rate Johnson logged during his 1963-69 presidency. By these standards, Ronald Reagan was a tightwad; discretionary spending grew by only 1.9 percent a year on his watch.
Discretionary spending went up in Bush’s first term by 48.5 percent, not adjusted for inflation, more than twice as much as Bill Clinton did (21.6 percent) in two full terms, Slivinski reports.
Defense spending is the big driver — but hardly the only one.
Under Bush it’s grown on average by 5.7 percent a year. Under LBJ — who had a war to fund, too — it rose by 4.9 percent a year. Both numbers are adjusted for inflation.
Including costs for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense spending under Bush has gone up 86 percent since 2001, according to Chris Hellman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Current annual defense spending — not counting war costs — is 25 percent above the height of the Reagan-era buildup, Hellman said.
Homeland security spending also has soared, to about $31 billion last year, triple the pre-9/11 number.
But Bush’s super-spending is about far more than defense and homeland security.
Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group, points to education spending. Adjusted for inflation, it’s up 18 percent annually since 2001, thanks largely to Bush’s No Child Left Behind act.
The 2002 farm bill, he said, caused agriculture spending to double its 1990s levels.
Then there was the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit — the biggest single expansion in the program’s history — whose 10-year costs are estimated at more than $700 billion.
And the 2005 highway bill, which included thousands of “earmarks,” or special local projects stuck into the legislation by individual lawmakers without review, cost $295 billion.
“He has presided over massive increases in almost every category … a dramatic change of pace from most previous presidents,” said Slivinski.
The White House counters by noting that Bush took office as the country was heading into a recession, then reeled from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“This president had to overcome some things that required additional spending,” said Sean Kevelighan, a White House budget office spokesman.
Bush does have other backers.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative research group, blamed a ravenous Congress that was eager to show constituents how generous it could be. (Republicans ran that Congress until January. Bush never vetoed a single GOP spending bill.)
The White House points out that, nearly four years ago, Bush vowed to cut the deficit in half by 2009, and he’s well on his way to achieving that goal. The fiscal 2004 deficit was a record $412.7 billion; the 2007 figure plunged to $163 billion.
But the deficit drop may be fleeting, experts say, since lawmakers are likely to extend many of Bush’s tax cuts, which expire by the end of 2010, and the imminent retirement of the baby boom generation will send Medicare and Social Security costs soaring in the years ahead.
Now, near the end of the seventh year of his presidency, Bush is positioning himself as a tough fiscal conservative.
He says Congress is proposing to spend $22 billion more in fiscal 2008 than the $933 billion he requested for discretionary programs — and that the $22 billion extra would swell over five years to $205 billion.
Eventually, Bush said, “they’re going to have to raise taxes to pay for it.”
And so, the president told an Arkansas audience earlier this month, people should brace for “what they call a fiscal showdown in Washington.
“The Congress gets to propose and, if it doesn’t meet needs as far as I’m concerned, I get to veto,” he said. “And that’s precisely what I intend to do.”
Bush is getting tough on fiscal policy — after running up a record as the most profligate spender in at least 40 years.
“The spending did happen,” said Keating, “and a lot of it shouldn’t have happened.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/20767.html

Louisiana Elects Conservative Governor, and Throws Out Whiney Crying Democrat Governor

Governor-Elect Tackles Louisiana’s Image
Oct 22 02:08 AM US/EasternBy MELINDA DESLATTEAssociated Press Writer
KENNER, La. (AP) – Changing Louisiana’s reputation for corruption would do more than just make over its image, Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal said Sunday: It could help the state attract businesses and win federal aid for hurricane recovery.
The Republican congressman, a day after his historic win in an election that featured a dozen candidates for governor, pressed ahead with his campaign pledge, saying in an interview with The Associated Press that one of his first acts will be to call a special legislative session to reform ethics laws.
“I think we’re setting the bar too low when we say, ‘Look, isn’t it great that we haven’t had a statewide elected official go to jail recently?’” Jindal said.
“The reality is there are a lot of practices that are accepted ways of doing business in Baton Rouge that are considered unethical in other parts of the country, that are considered illegal in other parts of the country,” he said.
The son of immigrants on Saturday won more than 50 percent of the vote in a primary election to make him Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction and the nation’s first Indian-American chief executive. That tally averted the need for a November runoff election.
His two predecessors, Democrat Kathleen Blanco and Republican Mike Foster, governed with no allegations of cronyism, but the state has a well-earned reputation for shady politics.
Four-term Democratic Gov. Edwin Edwards is serving prison time in a bribery and extortion case involving the awarding of riverboat casino licenses. In the past decade, Louisiana has had an insurance commissioner and elections commissioner serve time in jail, and a litany of corruption cases are pending in New Orleans.
Jindal wants legislators to create new state laws requiring them to disclose their sources of income and their assets—a bill that failed to pass in the most recent legislative session—and to bar their family members from doing business with the state. Louisiana’s ethics laws lag too far behind other states’ requirements, he said.
And while he acknowledges that some of the concerns are more about perception than reality, he said they can still can harm the state’s ability to attract businesses and its requests for aid to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which struck in 2005.
New Orleans and some surrounding parishes are mired in bureaucratic snarls that are slowing the repair of schools, homes and businesses. A homeowner repair and buyout program called the Road Home is billions of dollars short of what it needs to pay all eligible homeowners.
Blanco, who defeated Jindal in 2003 but chose not to run for re- election after heavy criticism of her performance after Katrina, is asking Congress for bailout money for the Road Home.
Jindal said he and Blanco will work together during his transition to lobby Congress for the assistance, saying it’s a federal obligation. He asked President Bush—who called Sunday to congratulate Jindal on his win—for a meeting to talk about hurricane recovery needs, he said.
The president agreed to the meeting, which hasn’t been scheduled, Jindal said.
“What is not an option is to break the promise that’s been made to the people of Louisiana,” he said.
White House spokesman Rob Saliterman confirmed that Jindal and the president spoke but said he wasn’t prepared to comment on their discussion.
Jindal said that he will resign from Congress shortly before his January inauguration and that, after he takes office, will announce a date to fill his congressional seat representing suburban New Orleans.
The governor’s race four years ago was Jindal’s first attempt at elected office. He quickly rebounded from the loss, running for Congress a year later and capturing his seat easily. He had only token opposition when he ran for re-election last year.
But to many, it appeared that Jindal never stopped running for governor, even after he lost to Blanco. He continued to make appearances well away from his congressional district, showing up in the state’s nooks and crannies and in areas where he fared poorly in the governor’s race.
Just 32 during his first gubernatorial run, the Oxford University- educated Jindal by then had already served as Louisiana’s health care secretary, president of one of its university systems and as an assistant health secretary under President Bush.
Republican former Gov. Mike Foster tapped him to be state health secretary in 1996, when Jindal was only 24.
His gubernatorial opponents criticized the millions of dollars he raised from special interests, his scripted campaign appearances and his refusal to participate in many debate forums.
But the attacks didn’t gain traction with voters, who supported Jindal across party lines. He won outright in the state’s open primary election, finishing atop the slate of candidates with 54 percent of the vote.
The governor-elect said he is not worried that in a state known for its brash and flashy politicians, he’s seen as methodical and wonkish.
“If I go down as one of the more boring but effective governors, I’ll take that as a great compliment,” he said at a news conference earlier Sunday. “Our people don’t want to be amused by our politics anymore. We don’t want to be entertained.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SE3TLO0&show_article=1

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Rejects Notion He Follows Scalia

Thomas Rejects Notion He Follows Scalia
Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:41 PM
ATLANTA — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bristled at the suggestion that he follows the lead of fellow conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, telling an audience Thursday that notion is based on a misguided stereotype.
“Obviously, what it’s based on is that I’m black and I’m supposed to think in a certain way,” said Thomas. “And there’s no way since I’m not supposed to think that way, that I can come up with that myself, so I must be following somebody. You make your own judgments about that line of reasoning.”
Thomas was speaking at the Atlanta Press Club to promote his new book “My Grandfather’s Son.” The justice, who was born in tiny Pin Point, Ga., recalled the many times he was rejected while searching for a job in Atlanta after graduating from law school.
He eventually landed with the Missouri attorney general’s office, but he said his early lack of success was instrumental in his eventual appointment to the nation’s highest court.
“Had I not been rejected, I wouldn’t be talking to you,” he told the audience of about 100 people. “I’d be sitting safely in a law firm doing the tax work I dreamed of doing.”
Thomas chastised reporters for using a “template” to paint his decisions and some biographers for being “malicious.”
“There were some people who aren’t ready for a black person on the court who they don’t think should think they way I did,” he said.
Thomas expressed concern that political discussion in America is eroding.
“We’ve turned everything into disagreements, into a contest,” he said. “If this person doesn’t agree with me, he’s a liar, he’s a bad person. How does this advance the discussion?”
No question provoked a quicker response from Thomas than when he was asked which of his fellow justices he’d least like to argue against.
“I’m not answering that,” he said to laughter. “You got to remember when this whole book thing is done, I’ve got to get back to work.”

http://www.newsmax.com/us/scotus_thomas/2007/10/18/42085.html

And the winner of the Democrat anti-free speech letter is…Betty Casey and the Eugene B. Casey Foundation

TOP BIDDER ON HARRY REID LETTER IN LIMGAUGH EBAY AUCTION: BETTY CASEY for $2,100,100

FRI Oct 19 2007 13:26:41 ET

EXCERPT FROM RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW: Our winning bidder, subject to the receipt of funds… is a wonderful woman named Betty Casey, as trustee of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation. She gives significant sums to hospitals, hospices, colleges, and private schools. These include the Eugene B. Casey Diabetes Education Center, The Eugene B. Casey Swim Center and the Eugene B. Casey Academic Center , and The Casey Home hospice. She has also donated tens of millions from the foundation and her personal funds to the Washington Opera. Betty has been a listener to my program since it’s inception, and we can’t thank her enough for her support. We’d also like to thank Ebay Giving Works for allowing us to break their website in the closing moments of the auction, and Auction Cause, who was our consultant in prequalifying bidders and developing the auction

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Fred Thompson says he’s the real conservative

Thompson says he’s the real conservative
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press WriterMon Oct 15, 6:43 PM ET
Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson swipes at GOP rival Rudy Giuliani in a speech he plans to give Monday night on the former New York mayor’s home turf.
“Some think the way to beat the Democrats in November is to be more like them. I could not disagree more,” the one-time Tennessee senator says in remarks he is to deliver to the Conservative Party of New York.
“I believe that conservatives beat liberals only when we challenge their outdated positions, not embrace them. This is not a time for philosophical flexibility, it is a time to stand up for what we believe in,” Thompson adds.
He doesn’t mention Giuliani in excerpts made available to The Associated Press, but he’s clearly trying to draw a contrast with the rival who’s leading in national Republican polls.
Giuliani was once a Democrat. Unlike Thompson, the New Yorker backs abortion rights and gay rights. And, the ex-mayor’s central argument for Republicans to nominate him is that he gives them the most likely shot to win in the general election.
Ahead of Thompson’s speech, Giuliani’s campaign arranged for several deputy mayors who served in his administrations to hold a news conference in Times Square to promote his success in reducing crime, overhauling welfare and cutting taxes.
“Some candidates talk the talk about Republican principles. Others actually have a proven track record of governing according to Republican principles. Rudy Giuliani has that record,” Randy Mastro, a deputy mayor in Giuliani’s first term, told the AP.
With voting beginning in under three months, Thompson is trying to win the support of conservatives who are pivotal in GOP primaries.
“With me, what you see is what you get. I was a proud conservative yesterday, I remain one today, and I will be one tomorrow,” Thompson says.
He touts his eight-year Senate tenure and boasts of working to further the conservative causes of smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation and conservative judges.
In fact, while he was seen as a reliably conservative vote in the Senate, he sometimes strayed from the party line and focused more on investigating than legislating.
Conversely, Giuliani voted for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972. As a Republican mayor, he broke from the GOP and endorsed Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo in an unsuccessful race for a fourth term. In his own two terms as mayor, Giuliani staunchly supported abortion rights, gay rights and gun control — and also was left-of-center on a host of other issues.
He also has had a rocky history with the Conservative Party of New York.
In his first mayoral race in 1989, Giuliani ran as a Republican but sought and won the Liberal Party’s endorsement, too. He lost but ran again in 1993, that time winning with the Liberal Party’s backing.
In an interview with Fox News Channel before the speech, Thompson highlighted that record and said: “I don’t think that the mayor has ever claimed to be a conservative.”
Thompson’s address to the Conservative Party will be his first public event since participating in his first presidential debate in Michigan last Tuesday. He was scheduled to be in New Hampshire late last week for a fundraising breakfast for Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, but he canceled the trip. Aides say he also plans stops this week in Washington, Georgia and Florida.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_po/thompson_giuliani_7

Rush Limbaugh Announces eBay Charity Auction of Harry Reid’s Letter – ebay auction high bid now at $45,000

Conservative Ann Coulter vs. Liberal Donny Deutsch

Democrat San Francisco Supervisors Condemn Private Citizen for Exercising 1st Amendment Free Speech Right

San Francisco supervisors condemn Savage

Officials pass resolution against talker for ‘hate speech’
Posted: October 2, 20075:33 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo SandovalThe San Francisco Board of Supervisors today condemned nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in city by the bay, for “hate speech.”
It was the board’s second attempt at a resolution to condemn Savage for his criticism of illegal aliens in the U.S.
In August, a single vote by a member whose grandfather emigrated from China seven decades ago halted a similar resolution in its tracks.
The previous vote was 9-1, with third generation San Franciscan Ed Jew turning in the veto vote, after getting up and affirming Savage’s First Amendment right to express his opinion.
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval had introduced the resolution in August to condemn the radio talker. After the vote, he called for the tally to be rescinded and the proposal sent to committee, which essentially is a polite way of letting the issue die.
“For the record, I do not agree with comments allegedly made by Mr. Savage, but the First Amendment gives him the right to make those comments,” Jew said.
Sandoval responded with a personal challenge to Jew.
“If this commentary was directed at the Chinese-American or the Asian community, you would not be resorting to this rigid formalism on your part,” he said.
That first effort was an attempt to pass the hate crimes condemnation unanimously to avoid a committee hearing. Having missed out on the unanimous vote, the measure is back now from committee.
“This is a dry run against free speech in America by the Islamists and the illegal aliens who are now becoming one and the same,” said Savage in August. “It’s the same organizational structure. … I am the target of this dry run. They want to see how far they can get in silencing a voice of freedom in the United States of America. They want to see which, if any, governmental agencies will stop them.”
“Guess what they learned so far?” he continued. “That not only will no governmental agency stop them in their attempts to kill free speech, they will aid them in their attempts to kill free speech. We have lost our freedoms already.
“Lady Liberty has been hog tied. She is being raped by the illegal aliens. She is being raped by the landlords who are using the illegal aliens. Lady Liberty is there in bindings screaming for us to release her,” he said.
Sandoval, who spearheaded the measure, said condemnation of immigrants “leads to the beating of Muslim-Americans and many other Americans.”
“This attempt to vilify Latino-Americans will not be tolerated,” he said. “We are saying first that we are recognizing this speech is hateful and we are condemning it. Don’t fool yourselves. This kind of speech just incites behavior that is nothing short of hysteria. It’s the kind of hysterical behavior we saw in Nazi Germany 60 years ago.”
One of the nation’s top civil rights attorneys offered his assistance to Savage in suing Sandoval.
Daniel A. Horowitz of Oakland, Calif., wrote to Savage after Sandoval introduced his resolution.
“You have a strong federal civil rights action that you can file against Supervisor Sandoval and the city of San Francisco,” he advised. “You have a constitutional right to state your political opinions and no city official has the right to lie about what you said or to call for a mob to come to your door to threaten you and to try to have you fired.”
Horowitz said the Civil Rights Act of 1871, designed to tame the terror of the Ku Klux Klan, can be used as the basis for a federal civil rights action against the official and the city.
“You are protected by this civil rights act because you are the victim of the same type of mob terror that (the) Klan used to inflict,” wrote Horowitz. “This terror is being organized against you simply because people do not like what you say. Translated into legal language, you are being attacked by a type of terrorist because you have exercised your First Amendment rights.”
Horowitz wrote: “The Klansman in your case is wearing a suit and not a white robe. He is doing his dirty work under the hood of his elected position instead of under the coward’s hood of the Klan.”
The call for action against Savage came at the same time city supervisors were considering using taxpayer dollars to pay for immigrants’ green cards and citizenship.
Sandoval’s resolution condemns Savage for “defamatory language … against immigrants.” The resolution was in response to Savage’s July 5 broadcast, when the talker commented on a group of students who had announced they were fasting in support of changes in immigration policy.
“I would say, let them fast until they starve to death,” quipped Savage, “then that solves the problem.”
Sandoval’s resolution calls Savage’s comments “symbolic of hatred and racism.”
“I really for the life of me cannot understand why there is not more media outrage to what Michael Savage said,” Sandoval said. He plans to hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall Tuesday just before the entire Board of Supervisors votes on his resolution against Savage.
“The intolerant and racist comments of Michael Savage demand a strong condemnation,” Sandoval insisted.
In response, Horowitz wrote: “This Sandoval fellow accused you of using ‘defamatory language … against immigrants.’ Of course, this statement by Sandoval is slander. I have listened to your show. You are very complimentary of immigrants. In fact, you frequently mention that your parents were immigrants. The slander by Sandoval arises because he claims that your opposition to illegal entry into this country is somehow a stand against Hispanics. That is like saying that every Border Patrol agent and every Congress person is anti-immigrant because they don’t condone illegal border crossing.”
“I will back you, Michael, and file this lawsuit if you wish,” concluded Horowitz.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57947

Ann Coulter Blames Clinton and Carter for 9/11

Coulter Culture
Ann Blames Clinton, Carter for 9/11 and Dreams of Denying Women the Vote
Published: October 2, 2007
Ann Coulter’s new book, If Democrats Had Any Brains They’d Be Republicans, hits bookshelves today, and as is his wont, George Gurley sat down with the self-proclaimed right-wing polemicist for a long chat [UPDATED: read the complete interview here].

George gave us a few bits of wit and wisdom from his interview, while the television is going wild about the beminiskirted babe.

On how much blame Bill Clinton deserves for the terrorist attacks of 9/11:

A lot. Jimmy Carter got the whole thing started, Bill Clinton let it build, build, build, build, build. He wouldn’t deal with it, because he had no credibility on deploying the military. He was a pot smoking draft dodger, and so when he was presented with credible evidence that this or that country was behind a terrorist attack, he’d just have to look the other way: “No, don’t let me hear that. Call in Monica!”

On women:

If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it’s the party of women and ‘We’ll pay for health care and tuition and day care — and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?’

On why global warming is religion on the left:

Because we can’t prove them wrong for a thousand years, and I think the other thing about it is, it goes back to Chesterton’s statement: that when people stop believing in God, the problem isn’t that they believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything. And that’s what you constantly see with people who don’t believe in God: They’re always imitating the most ridiculous, primitive religions. And it is like a primitive religion, thinking if we just change these lightbulbs, we can change the temperature of the ocean. It’s the craziest thing! Even primitive people wouldn’t believe something that silly.
http://www.observer.com/2007/coulter-culture