Scalito: That's What This Wingnut PAC Calls Him!

In the midst of all this fabricated wingnut outrage over the term "Scalito," I opened one of my mailboxes this morning and found this item: an e-mail from the "Vanguard PAC" trumpeting the nomination of "Scalito." "Vanguard PAC" is a self-styled "conservative," but clearly revolutionary, "political and activist group" headed by Rod Martin, who is among other things a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy and former Director of Policy Planning and Research for Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

Not mentioned in Martin's official bio are his articles in The Christian Statesman, published by the National Reform Association (the "Explicitly Christian Politics" people), in particular his 2002 piece entitled Quiet Revolution: The Christianization of the Republican Party.

Included in the e-mail are Martin's exploitation of Rosa Parks' death, Marvin Olasky's attempt to resurrect the pesticide DDT and Alan Sears' latest diatribe against the ACLU. Relevant excerpts from the e-mail below the fold.

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:14:13 -0600
Subject: [VANGUARD] Bush Picks "Scalito"! Help Confirm Him, plus Rosa Parks and More
From: "VanguardPAC.org" <[e-mail]>
To: [REDACTED]
Sender: <[e-mail]>

IT'S SCALITO! Bush Knocks It Out of the Park With Supreme Court Pick!

Tens of thousands of you joined Vanguard PAC, signed our petitions, faxed or called your Senators, or otherwise helped in the fight to confirm John Roberts. Now, we need you more than ever.

Sam Alito is the cream of the crop, with a strong pro-life record and the best judicial and conservative qualifications the President possibly could have picked. (Read our news release here.)

Please sign our petition today! We all said we'd fight for a true conservative, and it's time to put our money where our mouths are! And tell your friends to sign too!

Sign Our Petition Demanding Senate Confirmation of Judge Sam Alito!
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The Bus Stops Here
Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Legacy
by Rod D. Martin, J.D.
Founder and Chairman, Vanguard PAC

The civil rights movement spawned in Montgomery was breathtakingly revolutionary. It freed America to become what it always should have been, to live out and live up to its foundational creed that all people are equally valued by their Creator, and thus must be treated accordingly. And in realizing equal opportunity for all, the movement also propelled most African Americans into our country's broad middle class -- record numbers are even millionaires -- giving them the economic freedom necessary to enjoy those political liberties they'd so dearly won.

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Fighting Malaria
by Dr. Marvin Olasky
Father of "Compassionate Conservatism"
and Vanguard PAC Board Member

Author-physician Michael Crichton described the results of the DDT ban this way: "It has killed more people than Hitler." And during the three decades since environmentalists banned DDT, we've learned that the insecticide does not thin birds' eggshells dangerously or cause cancer among humans. One young child dies every 30 seconds: it's time compassion trumped environmentalist orthodoxy.

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The ACLU's Enthusiasm for Death
by Alan Sears, Esq.
President of the Alliance Defense Fund
and Vanguard PAC Board Member

There are many emotions one can associate with abort -- fear, desperation, loneliness, sadness, regret, anger, depression. But enthusiasm? How does any organization, in good conscience, celebrate those who, for money, will pith the brain of a healthy, full-term child like you would a frog in a high-school lab experiment? At least PETA is there for the frog.

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And: Buy Alan Sears' new book, The ACLU vs. America.

•  On the Board of Advisors of Vanguard PAC...

  sits, among other interesting figures, Grover Norquist himself. Just in case anyone was about to say that these people were just another "fringe group."

  by Mike Doughney on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 05:45:10 AM PDT

•  Red State

  was calling him Scalito yesterday morning as well.  And how exactly is this offensive?  Because they're both Italian?  This is just another stupid example of Republicans defending by attacking baseless claims.  How the fuck does the media fall for this shit?

  by Dave Brown on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 05:50:51 AM PDT

•  May I Suggest

  That you send this to the Producer of Hardball at MSNBC and highlight the fact that Grover Norquist is on the Board of Directors.  

  by eafredel on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 06:35:18 AM PDT

  •  I wrote Chris

    ... makes that my 3rd email to him in the last 12 hours.  He's way off the wall on this thing.

    by BWasikIUgrad on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 07:58:04 AM PDT

•  this was a red herring issue

  the early reports on Drudge and here indicated that the nickname was the problem but the trap was a document apparently released to MSNBC early in the morning by the DNC. One overview is here.

  by oysterface on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 06:37:29 AM PDT