NARAL Pulls Offensive John Roberts Ad

NARAL Pro-Choice America relented from pressure from the American political left on Thursday and has decided to pull a controversial ad in which the pro abortion group accused Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of "supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted bomber."

They were being hammered from the left.

Liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter saw the writing on the wall and called the ad "blatantly untrue and unfair."  Liberal Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne Jr writes in his Friday column:

Can we please come up with a better way of arguing about Supreme Court nominees?  Fellow liberals, face it: The advertisement created by NARAL, the abortion rights group that opposes John Roberts's nomination to the Supreme Court, is outrageous. It ties Roberts to people who bombed abortion clinics. If this isn't guilt by association, I don't know what is.

The ad was nasty, and though initially supported by many liberals, it's likely the focus group polls hit sometime on Thursday.

Here's the ad:

"Seven years ago, a bomb destroyed a women's health clinic in Birmingham, Alabama." The ad then quotes Emily Lyons, whose clinic was bombed in January 1998: "When a bomb ripped through my clinic, I almost lost my life. I will never be the same." The announcer returns: "Supreme Court nominee John Roberts filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." Text on screen: "Roberts filed court brief supporting clinic protestors." Lyons again: "I'm determined to stop this violence so I'm speaking out." The announcer: "Call your senators. Tell them to oppose John Roberts. America can't afford a justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans."

Translation: 

John Roberts supports blowing up abortion clinics and kill people. Disgusting as it was--it exposed NARAL as the fringe and that's a good thing.  The left wing moonbats just ushered in irrelevancy to their cause in less than a week.

NARAL did the American voter a huge favor.  This ad allows the White house and Roberts' supporters to now correctly point to the lengths that the moonbats on the left will travel to destroy those who wish to rule on law, instead of partaking in judicial activism.

Chuck Schumer, in a fit of desperation, called for a second chance.  

"The ads, whether they come from the right or the left, are beside the point," said Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat who sponsored the bill to protect abortion clinics from violence. "The issue is: What are Roberts's views?"

Schumer is sure to make a spectacle of himself at these hearings, but his silence early in the NARAL bomber blame game gives him little credibility from anyone except the left fringe.

NARAL likely just assured John Roberts' successful nomination.