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on Saturday, March 03, 2007 9:28:42 AM
I am only going to take a moment to address this, and I do hope Ann Coulter is happy with herself. That link will send you to Captain Ed's site. The quote is there, and I will not repeat it here. What has happened to this once, admirable conservative. all of a sudden, lately, she has gone from being sensible to unhinged; at least in public.
There is a reason why we do not listen to Michael Savage. He is as fringe as the majority of the Left, and he sits on our side. So, both sides have nuts like the fringe dwellers. Granted, our side does not have the "fever swampers," but with people like Ann coulter on our side, sometimes I wonder. I am sure Ann will get a chuckle out of the all the notice that she has garnered from her comment at the end of her CPAC speech, and I am sure she will do a column or make a comment telling us conservatives to grow thicker skin.
No, Ann. You need to grow up. The Left dislikes you because of how downright nasty you can get in a column, calling them on their hypocrisy and their lies. You know their tricks as well as they do; as well as any staunch conservative does. But these antics that you keep pulling is not endearing you to the conservative base. You are irritating it. These are people who have supported you, and would continue to support you were it not for your continued, childish antics.
I do hope the people at CPAC pick up on this. I hope they see that she tends to make an @$$ out of herself when she sees fit to do so. As Captain Ed astutely noted, it is time the GOP get over this hang-up about homosexuality. Those people will not miraculously become straight tomorrow. To closae this out, I would like to highlight this from Captain Ed's post, as it seems that he has a little debate raging in his comments section:
First, criticizing Coulter's use of the word "f****t" is not a suppression of free speech; it is an exercise of free speech. We're not advocating her arrest for using the word. We're just saying it was stupid, unnecessary, and hateful. This is no different than Melissa McEwan calling Christians "Christofascist Godbags" and Amanda Marcotte's incendiary hate speech about Catholics. We howled about that when John Edwards hired them; why do we defend Coulter's appearance at CPAC?
Also, if CPAC continues to invite Coulter to these events, then unfortunately, these little rhetorical bombs reflect on conservatives. We just spent most of the week criticizing John McCain for not meeting the conservative base at CPAC. If Coulter said this in an interview on her own, it would not have reflected on CPAC or conservatives but on herself. Yesterday, though, she used our platform for that little nugget of vileness -- and some in the audience cheered her for it. Conclusions can reasonably be drawn from that.
Her comments DO reflect on us, especially when it is at an official event like this. Can anyone imagine if she was a keynote speaker at the RNC, and dropped a rhetorical bombshell like that? We could kiss the White House good-bye because deep down inside voters, for the most part, are appalled by behavior like this. And Captain Ed has a very viable point when it comes to the Marcotte/McEwen dust-up.
Here are two women who purposefully insulted Christians because of God's knows why. Maybe they are not religious. Maybe, like many on the Left, they cannot believe so many people would "delude themselves." Regardless, we call them on the carpet for a lack of decency, but we are willing to give Ann a pass? I think not. Her statement was below the belt and beyond comprehension. If I were involved in any major campaigning for the GOP, and there was fundraiser where she was planning to attend, I would personally have nothing to do with that event. The only way she is going to get it through her head that she cannot act like this in public--especially at an official GOP event--is if the base tells the event people that if she attends, they will not.
We liked Ann. We still do enjoy her columns. They pale in comparison to some of her live junkets. This marks the third time I know of that I have taken her to task for her unprofessional and inflammatory behavior. I do not care what she thinks of John Edwards--a man right now who is lucky to come in third in the DNC straw polls. We know what she thinks of Hillary. And I cringe to think what she might have said about Obama.
It would have been a lot easier for Ann to stand up, applaud the candidates that were there, talk about each one, and move on. No, she had to pull an Al Franken and end her speech on a bad joke. And in doing so, she left CPAC with a black eye. Way to go, Ann. Now it falls to us to take the brunt of the criticism when the Left starts firing potshots over the comment.
Marcie