HUMAN EVENTS Exclusive: Coulter Takes on 'Christine Todd Witless'

Human Events Online ^ | February 25, 2005 | Ann Coulter

[hinterlander]

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

This may be the worst timed book since James Glassman and Kevin Hassett's DOW 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market, predicting in September, 1999 that the stock market was about to shoot sky high -- 6 months before it collapsed.

James Glassman:

That was a cheap shot!

(Sobs profusely at Coulter's barb. Scurries off of thread. Fondly remembers short-lived "TechnoPolitics" show that ran briefly on PBS stations during the mid-90s.)

[stopem]

Like the premise of the book -- Bush is going to lose by appealing to a bunch of crazy Christians! -- Whitman's argument is based on conventional wisdom that is now known to be false.

So are we to assume that Whitman et al are an insignificant entitity?

[hinterlander]

So are we to assume that Whitman et al are an insignificant entitity?

Not insignificant, just, well, clueless.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Any questions, Christie? Fine - you can leave now.

[Rummyfan]

Two Coulters in one week! Thanks for the post.

I lump Whitman with another Republican apologist, Arlen Specter, who yesterday said Republicans are equally to blame for the judicial nominations impasse.

[Enterprise]

"So are we to assume that Whitman et al are an insignificant entitity?"

Well, it's her party too, and she can cry if she wants to.

[JoeSixPack1]

but we Republicans like ideas that work, not ideas we've been told for 25 years will work, but never have.


Ann rocks!!!

[RAY]

It seems Whitman's implication is that moderate Republican didn't vote for President Bush. Then, who did moderate Republicans vote for?

Yes,Republicans and some Democrats voted for Bush - Democrats and some turn coat Republican voted for Kerry - but the majority voted for their respective candidates.

Whitman's positions seems a little naive, if not dumb. However, one can guess that she is talking to her specific constituency.

[lightingguy]

coulter/whitman ping

[OXENinFLA]

Coulter Ping...........

[WestTexasWend]

"So are we to assume that Whitman et al are an insignificant entitity?"

Only significant when they themselves are elected, at which point they become full-fledged RINOs.

So I guess the lesson is: tolerate moderates if you must, try to convert them to true conservatism if you can, and don't take them seriously or give them power until they do.

[MplsSteve]

I'm a moderate Republican...and I voted for Bush.

[martin_fierro]

Wotta numbskull.

[TNCMAXQ]

I missed Ann at CPAC because the room was so full I couldn't even get in. :(

I always enjoy her columns but she made a couple of errors here. 2004 was the 7th election, not the 10th, in which the Demo candidate got under 50% of the vote. Carter managed to eke out 50.1% (hard to believe!) in 1976.

She says President Reagan's 1984 victory was the largest electoral landslide in history. Close but I think FDR had a slightly larger margin in 1936.

[roses of sharon]

Her "specific constituency" is the MSM.

As with McCain, she believes the NYT editorial page should run the country.

[OldFriend]

Whitman's book was written under the assumption that President Bush would lose the election.

She had to go back and change some of the book prior to publication when her wish did NOT come true.

Shame on her!

[ChildOfThe60s]

-----So are we to assume that Whitman et al are an insignificant entitity (sic)?----

Hopefully, yes.

What Whitman doesn't get is that what she says sounds plausable in theory, but in reality does the opposite.

Her people drive the faithful (real conservatives) out of the party & attract none of the Dems that she thinks they will. What she fails to understand about Dems is that party loyalty supersedes personal good sense. They ain't comin' over, regardless.

Example: A friend of mine was going totally ballistic last year. Howard Dean on steroids. I posed a hypothetical question to him: "What if Bush were to wholeheartedly endorse every liberal cause you favor, and disavow every conservative principle you dislike?"

His response? "I hate the SOB no matter what; I'm never voting Republican".

[Area51]

I lump Whitman with another Republican apologist, Arlen Specter, who yesterday said Republicans are equally to blame for the judicial nominations impasse.


7 posted on 02/25/2005 5:45:32 AM PST by Rummyfan

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You know it's comments like that, that make we want those pictures of him and a choir boy in counciling to go public.

He may bery well be the original manchurian candidate.