October 2, 2008, - 10:35 am
The Ignoramusette Doesn’t Understand Why Roe v. Wade is Bad Law, Can’t Think of Single Supreme Court Case She Doesn’t Like
By Debbie Schlussel
To all the blind so-called conservatives who gush over Sarah Palin at every ignorant utterance, I’m sure you’ll continue to gush as Palin demonstrates her complete lack of understanding of the objection to Roe v. Wade as bad law. And I’m sure you gush as she demonstrates that, heck, she can’t think of a single decision by the Supremes that she doesn’t like other than Roe (because she hasn’t a clue).
Palin tells Katie Couric that she believes there’s a “right to privacy” in the U.S. Constitution. But, in fact, that’s the whole conservative objection to Roe v. Wade. Justice Harry Blackmun simple made it up, to legally protect abortion–something he readily admitted to Bob Woodward for a Woodward book. There is no right to privacy in the Constitution. It’s pure fiction. If you believe there is, then you believe in abortion on demand and a whole host of other things strict constructionist conservatives oppose. You don’t make up stuff in the Constitution that ain’t there–it’s that simple. Well, simple for anyone with even the tiniest bit of knowledge about basic national issues, like abortion.
You expect a person running for Vice President–especially one claiming to be a conservative and pro-life–to know these things, like about the right to privacy being created out of wholecloth. She doesn’t because she’s a complete ignoramus. (Oh, and she also opposed a pro-life bill in Alaska. She talks a conservative game, but didn’t follow one.)
You also expect a person running for Vice President to know of a few Supreme Court decisions, other than Roe, with which she disagrees. I can rattle several off the top of my head because I actually read a newspaper and follow the news. She doesn’t, and yet she wants to lead the country.
For instance, I oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to grant habeas corpus petition rights and access to U.S. courts to Guantanamo Bay inmates who aren’t even on U.S. soil and have no nexus to America. For a woman who claims she wants to stop Islamic terrorists, why doesn’t she know about this recent, prominently awful decision? I also oppose the Court’s ruling that a non-adult, no matter how heinous his crime, cannot face the death penalty. The University of Michigan affirmative action cases with opposite resulting decisions, Grutter and Gratz. And there are so many others . . . so many others about which she’s clueless.
Yup, can’t wait until she’s Veep. Don’t look for her to make frequent TV appearances like Dick Cheney, a smart guy who actually knew what the heck he was talking about.
But, hey, she’ll be great at funerals of foreign leaders and cutting ribbons at openings.
Like I said earlier in the week, Sarah Palin can only exceed expectations at the debate tonight. Her performance thus far has been that dismal.
Remember when conservatives objected to Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court? Harriet Miers was supposedly a conservative and a knowledgeable woman. But she simply didn’t have any experience as a Judge nor the qualifications to sit on the Supreme Court. It’s the same deal here, except the woman is question is a gazillion times more ignorant.
Like I said before, the choice in November is between two horrible Marxist blowhards and a liberal-centrist Republican with a complete ignoramus. Good luck, America.
I am a conservative and am pro choice.
Enjoy the coming Obama Administration.
Ripper on October 2, 2008 at 11:18 am