On the shoulders of Hewitts

I bet you didn’t know that Townhall provides a forum where anyone, not just public intellectuals like the Virgin Ben and Kevin McCullough, can opine away on the topic of the day… or whatever else the voices in their heads are arguing about as long as it isn’t about picking up hitchhikers and keeping them in their combination basement dungeon and "Hard Thinkin’ Room".

Townhall proudly calls it: What The Right Looks Like and, since I’m all about giving fledgling bloggers a shot at the somewhat popular big time, I thought I would hold a mirror up to see what exactly the right does look like.

In this case, Rich from Paso:

I am pro-life and pro-death penalty and I am perfectly comfortable with that.

I am against aborting an unborn baby except in the most rarest of circumstances. I believe that if left to Mother Nature, every fetus will become a normal human being. I find the practice of sucking out the brains of babies pulled almost all the way out feet first is an abomination and is morally reprehensable and indefenseable. I believe that too many times, abortion proponents, like Planned Parenthood, encourage abortions in order to bolster the argument that women want abortions.

I am for capital punishment, the death penalty. I believe that the death penalty isn’t used enough, quite honestly, to punish the most heinous and evil acts that one human commits on another. I feel that serial rapists should be executed. I believe that serial child molesters and serial child rapists should be executed. I feel that murderers should not be allowed to repeatedly abuse the justice system with appeals that have nothing to do with how the original case was tried.

How can I be anti-abortion and still be pro-death penalty? It is very easy and quite logical. It is all about innocence, or the lack thereof. A fetus in the womb is absolutely innocent of any crimes or sins outside the original one.

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The fact of the matter is that only five people back in 1970 said that abortion is not only legal but protected by the Constitution. Five men out of the 200 million Americans decided that women had a right to privacy and that privacy right extends to them being able to abort a fetus in their womb. On the face of it, the Right to Privacy is found no where in the Constitution. Also, this interpretation of privacy violates the Equal Protection clause because what commenserate Right to Privacy do men have? This ruling was by its nature very discriminatory.

I just want to jump in here and say that I can find no Supreme Court ruling that would force me to carry a fetal-American to term, so I’m getting rid of my diaphragm and I’m going to start slutting it up.

Sorry Rich, carry on:

Feminists look at women’s ability to abort a baby as the ultimate act personal power. The woman gets to decide and the man has no say. I feel that killing a fetus is the most pathetic exercise of power ever conceived. Aborting a fetus as an exercise of power is six or seven levels below kicking a dog just because you can. It is weakness, not strength, when you kill an innocent creature of any kind, let alone a soon-to-be fellow human being. These women would be the first to beg for their lives if a man were to attempt to rape them (as all women should) when they are helpless, but will not extend that courtesy to their fetus, their child.

???!? I mean WTF doesn’t even come close to covering that.

Barak Obama says that he feels that the States can best regulate late-term abortions which is why he opposed the bill in Congress. If that is the case, why can’t states regulate all abortions? We know that Nebraska and South Dakota don’t want any abortions.

Uh, no.

As for the death penalty, there has yet to be an instance of where an innocent man or woman has been executed, and I don’t think there ever will. We spend far, far, far more time deliberating and litigating the instances of capital punishment for murders that has been done than we ever do for a human fetus that does not know the outside world. Furthermore, with the improvements in DNA collection, analysis, and database management, the likelihood of an innocent person being executed is remote. Finally, the use of an insanity plea or mental disability to avoid the death penalty should end. If the person is in fact insane, doesn’t that amplify the need for capital punishment instead of lessoning it? A mentally disabled person convicted of murder would be unable to be rehabilitated because of their infirmity. htey did the act. Why should anyone be able to skate out of it.

Words fail me. Even more than they have failed Rich.

I think Hugh Hewitt should have him on his show. Ratings gold, I tells ya….