Thank for your response...
Let me put it this way:
Ann Coulter leads the charge up the hill to a political pillbox that's been blasting away at us unfettered for years. You can't sit on the beach in a fohole forever, son.
It doesn't make you a CINO, just someone who doesn't get it.
She is obnoxious. I say that as a woman. I miss Barbara Olsen. At least Barbara had class.
I always operate from this simple premise: I want to make life better for Americans.
That's all Americans. Conservatives, liberals, blacks, whites, women, men, Catholics, Baptists, Unitarians, Atheists, all of them. IMHO, lower taxes, less intrusive government, fiscal reponsibilty, and a strong defense are the four cornerstones that are needed to build that dream upon.
Everyone benefits from lower taxes, even liberals. Liberals just don't always realize they're going to benefit from it, but that's ok, they'll benefit from it anyway.
Everyone benefits from less intrusive government. Freedom is a wonderful, if sometimes scary thing. The fewer government regulations to run afoul of, the better off we all are. As it stands, neither you nor I could possibly know even a 10th of those laws and regulations. It's not humanly possible.
Everyone benefits from fiscal responsiblity. Conservatives and Liberals alike live off the same economy. Like #1, liberals might not know that they'll benefit from fewer government programs pushing us into the red, but they'll beneift all the same.
A strong defense requires no explanation.
Now where that puts me at odds with Coulter should be obvious. I'm proud of the fact that conservative policies will benefit everyone, including liberals, and Coulter writes as though even the most remote kindness to a liberal hurts her physically.