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Ann Coulter Saves John Edwards Lowell Ponte John Edwards was on the verge of sinking beneath political quicksand and being forced to kiss his presidential aspiration goodbye. During last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference however, Ann Coulter tossed the floundering 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate a lifeline. With one throw-away joke implying that married father Edwards was homosexual — a line that the liberal media used to impugn the entire conservative gathering — Ann put the former one-term North Carolina senator back on national news programs. Edwards used this spotlight to beg liberals to send his fading campaign "Coulter Cash" to demonstrate their disapproval of Ann's "bigoted tactics." "It's important for all of us to speak out against language of this kind," said Edwards, "because it is a place where hatred gets its foothold." Edwards spoke in Berkeley, a radical hotbed since the 1960s, where he was crusading for "economic and social justice" for janitors at the University of California. He preached hatred Edwards-style, socialist class warfare that depicts us as "two Americas" and plays divide-and-conquer by mobilizing one of his Americas to hate the other. (The national media took care to avoid mentioning Edwards' hypocrisy in accusing Ms. Coulter of giving a foothold to hatred.) Story Continues Below
Whenever janitors are the center of a protest, it's a good bet that behind the scenes lurks the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, the largest and by many measures most radical labor union in America. Current AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, a proud card-carrying member of Democratic Socialists of America, rose to power as president of the SEIU. Approximately half of SEIU members are government employees, almost the only sector in America where unionization is growing, not shrinking. It's no coincidence that the University of California Berkeley is a state government institution beholden not to the free marketplace but to politics. John Edwards has hitched his presidential bandwagon to a few powerful special interests, including two of the biggest traditional contributors to the Democratic Party. Edwards to gain such support has turned himself into a sock puppet for organized labor in general and for the new coalition of unions headed by SEIU in particular. Labor's aim with the janitors at UC Berkeley is not only to win higher wages and benefits for workers, but also to organize them into unionized shock troops that can be squeezed for involuntary dues and used politically to advance leftist agendas. And to such ends, Edwards has become a champion for the anti-democratic tactics of today's organized labor. Labor's latest goal is to be able to unionize offices, public and private, not through democratic elections and secret ballots (which unions nowadays often lose), but merely by getting a majority of workplace employees individually and in isolation to sign cards. This would mean that an employee can be surrounded by 10 threatening union thugs with baseball bats in a dark parking lot one night, be handed a pen, and be ordered to sign the card at that moment "or else." John Edwards as president would sign into law legislation that allowed such bully-boy tactics to impose unionization on workplaces. As big labor's puppet, Edwards would almost certainly expedite the unionization of every government employee, including those in the military as has already happened in parts of Europe. (Just imagine the wildcat strikes and walkouts by U.S. troops in a future war under President John Edwards.) But the Edwards campaign has been in decline. Following former Vice President Al Gore's beatification by Hollywood liberals at the Oscars, the left-leaning mainstream media has re-framed its polls and punditry to make Gore its the dark horse candidate. This is the "Third Democrat" who could come from behind and win the Democratic nomination and presidency if Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tangled and brought one another down. And very recent polls have shown Gore inching ahead of Edwards for a distant third place in the Democratic race. No wonder Ann Coulter gave Edwards a helping hand, or tongue, to undercut Gore's carefully orchestrated momentum. (If Gore is given the Nobel Peace Prize — for political reasons, like President Jimmy Carter – he could acquire the utopian glow of liberal Martin Sheen's perfect Democratic President in the fictional TV drama "The West Wing.") Obedient to his fat cat big labor bosses, John Edwards went to Berkeley while Clinton and Obama spoke in their best fake Southern accents at the 42nd Anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" clash between civil rights marchers and Democratic Party police with dogs and firehoses in Selma, Ala. Far from Selma, Edwards claimed he spoke for today's "bigger march in America for fairness and equality." But without Ann Coulter's help, nobody would have read or heard a thing Edwards said. In Selma, neither Clinton nor Obama said anything about recurring contests by its National Voting Rights Museum. These drawings in 1996 offered a Jeep, in 2000 $1,000 cash, and in 2002 a $10,000 cash prize for the ballot stub-lottery ticket of any voter who would have been "historically excluded from voting in Alabama during the last 50 years." These drawings' rules were carefully rigged to exclude white people from winning, including white women denied the right to vote until early in the 20th century. These drawings, therefore, gave a financial incentive — a kind of vote buying — for minority voters but not for Caucasians to vote. The National Voting Rights Museum may as well have put up a sign that read: "No White People Need Apply." But both Obama and Clinton were too busy pandering for minority votes to criticize this. Like the denial of secret ballots for workers that Edwards advocates, the Democratic Party in Selma — and Washington, D.C. — continues to violate fundamental ideals of democracy. And the liberal media ignored Ann Coulter's larger point — that Edwards' campaign manager, David Bonior of America's most Arab-American state, Michigan, "is fronting for Arab terrorists." Edwards' 2004 running mate John Kerry received lots of Muslim money. A future column will examine another of the powerful, sinister special interests John Edwards serves.
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