Stereotypes of the GOP? Congrats FreeRepublic & Coulter! We've Just Confirmed Most Of Them ...

Free Repbulic ^ | March 3, 2007 | Vanity

[cripplecreek]

I really don't care one way or the other. Saves me from having to pander or whine.

[Wormwood]

Disagreements are made through detail and facts, not over-the-top personal attacks.

Perhaps once, but not any more.

Today, it's all about how loud you can scream and how much you can fire up your mindless mob.

Discourse is dead. In fact, the mob sees negotiation as a sign of weakness. Nobody cares about finding common ground---everyone just wants to win.

We are in a post-political age.

[mcg2000]

sooooooo it's okay for the GOP image that Coulter say these things?

[The_Victor]

I'll denounce Coulter when the left denounces Clinton, Dean, Gore, Pelosi, Ried, Murtha, .... etc.

[Wormwood]

sooooooo it's okay for the GOP image that Coulter say these things?

Skeletor is free to be as infantile, divisive, and utimately destructive to the conservative cause as she wants to be. How's that?

[Shimmer128]

Um, yeah, it's ok with me. :)

[mcg2000]

"Um, yeah, it's ok with me. :)"

Wow. Enough said. Speaks volumes ....

[Wormwood]

I'll denounce Coulter when the left denounces Clinton, Dean, Gore, Pelosi, Ried, Murtha, .... etc.

So which is your argument here?

1. “They did it first, so there!” or
2. “We're no better than they are.”

Just curious.

[nativist]

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I - so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards."

This a funny joke. Is it a little crass? Yes but still funny. I bet Dennis Miller wishes he had thought of it.

[mcg2000]

I'll denounce Coulter when the left denounces Clinton, Dean, Gore, Pelosi, Ried, Murtha, .... etc."

You can't have your own opinion? When did the GOP leave me behind? Speaking engagements with a focus on personal attacks and not ideas ... people that can't think as individuals .... relative morality .... ?

[gotribe]

No one cares what Coulter thinks. Her loyal audience is a miniscule percent of the population, and those who do listen know she's a loose cannon. In other words: zero credibility.

She just a columnist spouting her opinion, no different in impact than a Broder.

[nativist]

She was just making a point about political correctness and the fact that the guy from Grey's Anatomy actually went in to rehab, or shall we say reeducation camp, because he called a gay guy a faggot on the set. It was clever and funny and she is not running for office and probably was trying to force the discussion of these reeducation camps.

[The_Victor]

So which is your argument here?

1. “They did it first, so there!” or
2. “We're no better than they are.”

Just curious.

Turnabout is fair play. They've been using name calling for decades, and I'm not going to get my knickers in a twist when Ann goes a little overboard. The fact of the matter is, if you read the complete statement Ann made, she didn't actually call Edwards anything.

[JCEccles]

Coulter's style has its place in the national discourse. It is a legitimate, effective, time-honored style that predates the Republic. No style is more effective at unmasking trolls masquerading as conservatives.

[The_Victor]

You can't have your own opinion? When did the GOP leave me behind? Speaking engagements with a focus on personal attacks and not ideas ... people that can't think as individuals .... relative morality .... ?

Ones own opinion is exactly what Ann is representing. She is not a spokesman for the GOP, FreeRepublic, or any other conservative organization. She speaks for Ann, and as such can say whatever she wants, with no expectation of official reprimand.

However, personal attacks from the left are made by officials of those organizations. As such the organization bears responsibility for the statements.

[mcg2000]

"Coulter's style has its place in the national discourse. It is a legitimate, effective, time-honored style that predates the Republic. No style is more effective at unmasking trolls masquerading as conservatives."

You question someone's conservative beliefs because they don't think it's appropriate to call a candidate a "faggot" in a highly profile public forum??

That type of thought process is more than a little frightening ...

[bad company]

We also hear/understand the remarks about Libs dividing the country, but no one works harder at it than Coulter.

Are you really this F'ing stupid? STFU nooooob.

[nativist]

That type of thought process is more than a little frightening ...

You find that frightening? How about the "thought process" that people need to be reeducated in rehab for using a word that is offensive to people. Joy Behar of The View flat out called George Bush a murderer the other day. That doesn't mean she needs to go into rehab over it.

Ann's comments were surely made to stir up the media to show the contrast.

[Shimmer128]

You know, this often happens on here. People who don't have anything meaningful to say often cast aspersions by intoning "that speaks volumes" like that's so meaningful and profound a thing to say.
It's really meaningLESS, if it didn't "say" anything, why would I have written it?

I just said it spoke for me. Let me write it slowly for you, so you can understand.
What she says, not every single word out of her mouth or from her pen, but for the most part, is fine with me. More needs to be said, and strongly. We as a nation and a people are being strangled by the mealy mouthed PC crowd.
Even those on the PC Right. So she could be gentler, so what? It needs saying.

That doesn't make me bad, that just means I'm different than you. (oh the HORROR!) Many are different than you and that's probably not a bad thing at all.
:)