While I loathe Newsmax - it's a Republican whore publication, even worse than FOX News - they are a solid voice of and for conservatives, and they've just written a piece suggesting that Rehnquist intentionally announced his cancer only days before the election (ran than keeping it a secret until later) in order to give Bush's re-election chances an extra boost.
Now, think about this. A publication that's at least respectable among conservatives is bragging that the chief justice of the US Supreme Court may have tried to throw a US election. Putting aside Rehnquist did or did not, what kind of conservative are you - what kind of American are you - when you crow about the fact that you think the impartial judiciary just THREW an election in a democracy? These are the guys who just took swipes at gay Americans in 11 states because they loathe "activist judges," and now they're actually gleeful that an activist judge may have tried to, in essence, execute a judicial coup of an American election.
I was once a Republican, and I left that party over ten years ago because it was becoming bitter and nasty and seemed only to be focused on who next to hate, rather than having any interest whatsoever in any of the principles that supposedly conservatives believed in. They were overrun by opportunists, and rather hateful ones at that, with no moral or ethical code to their conduct. They preached the Bible while practicing the devil. They waved the flag while destroying what it stands for. And they revered the Constitution while slowly unraveling its protections.
It's good to see Newsmax proving to me once again that I clearly made the right decision in ditching these hypocritical un-American assholes.
Here's what they wrote:
Rehnquist's Clever Boost for Bush
When Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist announced in late October that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, we took the news sadly.
Now that the election has taken place and the dust has settled, we think the clever veteran of the Court and Beltway politics may have timed his announcement to give George Bush a small boost before Election Day.
Rehnquist could have waited a few days, until after the election was over -- as John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, did to announce her breast cancer.
As NewsMax reader Miguel Tuas first pointed out to us, Rehnquist's timing was impeccable.
Though Rehnquist did not say he planned to step down, many media commentators said the ailing chief justice, now 80 years old, may have to leave the court to attend to his health.
And that suddenly injected the judiciary -- and the number of Supreme Court appointments the next president may have to make -- into the presidential campaign.
Can you imagine Kerry's potential court picks: Dershowitz? Tribe? Estrich?
Thankfully, we don't have to.
