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To: Pikamax
Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives.

I tend to agree. Coulter is beloved by many conservatives because, well, she's blonde and attractive.

She's a lightweight (no pun intended).

21 posted on 08/29/2005 12:48:45 PM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: Modernman
You reach a derogatory qualitative judgment that Anne is a lightweight.

Why do you say that? What underpins your obviously unpopular opinion?
26 posted on 08/29/2005 12:54:03 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Modernman

IMO any thoughtful person would swap Snow for Coulter in a heartbeat regardless of what they think of the editorial director's politics.


39 posted on 08/29/2005 1:00:07 PM PDT by Protagoras (My liberal neighbor is more dangerous to my freedom than Osama Bin Laden.)
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To: Modernman

Modernman,I disagree with your characterization of her as a lightweight.

Many conservatives appreciate and like her, because she has shown the appropriate way we need to deal with liberals.

In the past, Conservatives have gotten their clock cleaned in the court of public opinion, and have ceded the high ground to the liberals because we didn't want to be mean to them, offend them, or cause them to label us.

We never challenged them on thier policies towards the poor, because we were afraid they would label us "racist" and call us "mean spirited".

We never challenged their patriotism or love of country, because we didn't want to be "McCarthyites".

We never called them on their economic policies, because they would label us "The Party of the Rich" and accuse us of being in bed with corporate America.

And for all those years, they walked all over the conservatives, and we let them through our own weakness. We were too timid to speak out on behalf of our own beliefs, to point out the truth that the economic policies of the Democrats have damned generations of minorities to a lower standard of living. We were too nice to point out whose policies are really racist.

We were too polite to point out that the left in America is the party that has aligned itself with dictators and communist governments around the world and was responsible for some of the worst damage done to this country.

It has been long past the time for conservatives to stand up up to the left. Ann has shown us the right way, speak the truth, back it up by facts, and forget about whether they "like" us or not. They don't, so we better just get used to it and do what is right.

Ann Coulter is no lightweight. She may not be on the same level as Krauthammer, Schalafly or Will, but she is sharp, knows how to back up her arguments with facts, and isn't afraid of being called names.

That is why conservatives like her, not because she is an sinewy lanky hard looking blonde woman with a razor for a brain and a talent for being impolite to liberals by telling them the truth, something they don't want to hear. Those characteristics are just icing on the cake.


62 posted on 08/29/2005 1:10:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Blueflag
Why do you say that? What underpins your obviously unpopular opinion?
I've read her shrill books and articles. I'm not impressed.
Her writing is of the same level as, say, Michael Moore and Al Franken. Does she make some points? Sure. But she is just the ideological other side of the political coin from those guys.

Say what you will about Coulter she does urinate off the libbers !!
103 posted on 08/29/2005 2:28:31 PM PDT by megimoo
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To: Blueflag

Why do you say that? What underpins your obviously unpopular opinion?
I've read her shrill books and articles. I'm not impressed.
Her writing is of the same level as, say, Michael Moore and Al Franken. Does she make some points? Sure. But she is just the ideological other side of the political coin from those guys.

Say what you will about Coulter she does urinate off the libbers !!


104 posted on 08/29/2005 2:31:25 PM PDT by megimoo
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To: Modernman
Coulter is beloved by many conservatives because, well, she's blonde and attractive

Not hardy. How about "she's intelligent and says what needs to be said" (things the gutless GOP congressmen and/or spokesmen refuse to stand up and say).

116 posted on 08/29/2005 3:40:06 PM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA))
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To: Modernman

The paper should leave Ann's words out of their paper and just include the obligatory pictures. LOL


144 posted on 08/30/2005 4:21:51 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
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