Posted on 10/05/2005 7:18:07 PM PDT by quidnunc
Ann Coulter is one of many conservative pundits criticizing the SCOTUS nomination of Harriet Miers. I relish the opportunity to debate the matter with those, like Ann, who take a stance different from mine. In fact, because I believe that serious debate is such enlightening fun, I will continue to publish views on this site that differ from mine. Sadly, Ann has taken the low road, rather than debate me on the merits of my argument in favor of Miers.
On her website today (though not in her syndicated column that contains some duplicate verbiage) she dismisses my defense of Harriet Miers on grammatical grounds. It is bad enough that she fails to deal with the substance of my argument. What makes it truly embarrassing is that she is chooses a point which is highly debatable at best. I would much rather discuss subtance rather than the fine points of grammar disputes.
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Ann would be much better off criticizing my frequent and often embarrassing typos. But best of all would be a straightforward critique of my ideas. That would be the high road. The road not taken.
Maybe I am too involved in the matter to be of sound judgment, but it seems to me that Ann has just provided support for the thesis that at least one conservative pundit trashing Miers is nothing but a pompous elitist.
By the way, Ann, if you are going to put me down as a barely-educated moron, at least click on the "contributors" link on the website whose name you dare not mention and check out my background. I have three Ivy League sheepskins on my wall, and taught at two Ivies. I don't really have to try to "sound Ivy League."
May she lead you to many victories...which in her case are book sales.
One thing is for certain..She not only broke
the Eleventh Conmmandment, she jumped up and
down on it and stomped it. It's one thing to
complain among ouselves, over particular points,
but to go on TV and rip Miers like that...i can
hear the sounds of doors closing to Coulter, for
pulling this "Sheehan".
Heh. When has she ever taken the high road? Ann's funny and cute, but on an intellectual level she's our side's Michael Moore.
I wonder if FOX has pondered this, or will. :) Get Ann on, Thomas, wow.. as I start reviewing the names of ardent pro/con.. wow. Pay per view could make a mint off this.
My thoughts exactly.
I agree somewhat. I love Ann Coulter and have 3 of her books. But beginning with the John Roberts nomination she seems to be on some odd agenda where no electable conservative is conservative enough for Ann. Maybe she's fixin to marry Bill Maher. LOL!
American Thinker is right, Ann Coulter responded to a very thoughtful defense of Miers in a superficial stylistic way, not with substance.
"May she lead you to many victories...which in her case are book sales."
I was responding to the implication that she is no longer a conservative. That thinking scares me. Where is the room for debate and disagreement? She is insisting that the President name a better nominee (younger, more experienced, more intellecutally respected, etc...), that makes her a stronger conservative in my book than someone who buys the "trust me" garbage for a nominee that seems more like a placeholder than one who will change the face of the supreme court.
I'm pretty sure she forgot to take her lithium this week.
I suspect that there's a backstory to this that we don't know about.
She articulated her points very well on Hannity, and she basically captures my feelings exactly. As for the " three Ivy League sheepskins on my wall, and taught at two Ivies" Don't be so humble...
You are a Bush fan club booster.
Ann Coulter is brilliant, insightful and hits the target with a bull's-eye nearly every single time.
What is truly pathetic is witnessing so-called conservatives blindly waive the pom-poms over every single Bush/Republican move.
Patriots are thankful for OBJECTIVE and rational conservative national commentators like Ann Coulter, who place the nation's future and the nation's current direction far above childish "party cheerleading".
Challenging? yes...attacking and demeaning on
the merest of circumstancial evidence, giving
ammunition to the nattering nabobs of negativity...
does no credit to herself, or to the ideals she
holds.
I bet you are right on that.
Didn't want to see you disappointed. /;-)
"She has proven her conservative integrity"
At best she is attempting to portray herself as righteous pundit willing to attack her own as easily as the opposition. The way it comes across however, is self righteous and acridly bitter rhetoric lacking intellectual honesty and sunbstance.
She is proving to me that is has little to do with conservative integrity and everything to do with Ann Coulter.
Seems to me it is the President who needs to be reminded what a conservative is. And also, that he campaigned saying that he would appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. If he had said he was going to appoint his buddies instead of actual qualified candidates of whom there are many, he might not have gotten the slim majority that the political genius Karl Rove managed to eke out for him.
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