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Tabin Fever

9.30.05 @ 12:01AM

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REIGN DELAY
Re: John Tabin's The DeLay Opportunity:

Travis County D.A. Ronnie Earle is hardly a "prosecutor no-one has heard of before." He is in fact the prosecutor that was laughed out of court after trying for a couple of years to indict Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on equally spurious charges. He is very well known in Texas, and on record, for his determination to try and bring down any and all prominent Republican politicians within his jurisdiction. The only thing that puzzles me is that with his record of failure, why he gets re-elected.
-- Victoria Mitchell
Houston, Texas

What a disgraceful column written by John Tabin basically telling Republicans to throw Tom DeLay overboard. Where did this "writer" get his special report? It is sickening to see an article like this in The American Spectator. Perhaps Mr. Tabin would be more comfortable at the Nation with Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Shame, shame on The American Spectator. Mr. DeLay deserves better. This column is a smear and disgraceful attempt to undermine Mr. DeLay, who has done more for the Republican Party than even Newt Gingrich did. That is why he is a target, you pathetic hack.
-- M. Vail
Michigan

I must disagree with Mr. Tabin regarding the premise of his article. The Democrats for too long have been trying to compensate for their diminishing electoral base by sliming and smearing. Ronnie Earle has been an especially ardent participant though not particularly successful in these hijinks.

The Dems will continue on this path until they are made to pay. Now is as good a time as any. These charges seem particularly frivolous and if Mr. Earle is humiliated in court (as he was in his pursuit of Kay Bailey Hutchison) it will be a start. The problem with Senator Hutchison is she is too nice. After Earle put up the white flag, she went on her way. DeLay suffers from no such malady as being too nice and after he is exonerated will surely exact just vengeance.

The DeLay episode is rightly called an opportunity, but it is opportunity to begin to change the Dems' behavior on these matters. Let me end with a prediction. In a couple of years Tom DeLay will still be in office but Ronnie Earle won't.
-- Billy Watson
Garland, Texas

John Tabin leaves me perplexed. Temporary relinquishment of leadership? Republicans are actually thinking of reinstating him if he is acquitted? And railroaded? This district attorney or whoever indicted him has indicted lots of Democrats in the past for corruption -- were they railroaded, too, or does this just apply to Republicans?
-- Dan Robbins
Richmond, Virginia

Well, people in Texas have heard of Ronnie Earle. He went after our senior senator the same way and had his case thrown out. This was the sixth grand jury he had tried to get an indictment from and I guess six times is the charm. But I have to agree that DeLay is out of touch with spending and it will not hurt to have a new leader.
-- Elaine Kyle
Cut & Shoot, Texas

Well, Mr. Tabin says in relation to Tom DeLay that Republicans should "hang him out to dry." Isn't that wonderful. Is Mr. Tabin a mole from the DNC? In the words of the last Dem that was hung out to dry by his "friends," "Beam me up, Scotty."

Has Mr. DeLay skated REAL close to the line at times? You betcha! On the other hand, has he been an effective Congressional leader against the Dems in and out of Congress? You betcha! In fact the ONLY reason that Mr. Earle went after him is BECAUSE he is effective. The State's Attorney in Palm Beach, Florida, would not be going after Rush Limbaugh because he was NOT effective, and the same applies to Tom DeLay.

I suppose that Mr. Tabin subscribes to the theory that we on the right must not really aggravate the Dems, including the MSM. More rope-a-dope. More timidity. More refusal to stand up for oneself and go toe to toe with the opponents. Maybe Mr. Blunt will eschew his name and be a better compromiser, right Mr. Tabin? Well, Mr. DeLay was an exterminator. He prefers to terminate the cockroaches and termites permanently.

As for Mr. DeLay's recent statements regarding government waste and over spending, he is very wrong. He is hewing to the White House and Congressional leadership line on the issue, but that is NOT a hanging offense. Just a slap upside the head and let him go on down the line terminating the hopes and ambitions of Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, who has done the same stuff and even more than DeLay, yet is exempt from prosecution or persecution even by Republicans.

Shame on you, Mr. Tabin, shame. You are obviously a gutless weenie in the face of serious challenge from the partisan Dems. Chuckie Schumer needs a hug, Mr. Tabin. You can handle that, right?
-- Ken Shreve
New Hampshire

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