Posted on 03/03/2007 2:05:46 PM PST by pissant
And it's become apparent that the poison of PCism has infected the GOP badly. Oh well, it was a nice ride for a 150 years.
It was neither.
Crude would have been: "Edwards is a fag".
Brilliant is: "I was going to have a few comments on the other presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot.’ So I’m kind of at an impasse. I can’t really talk about Edwards. So I think I will just conclude here and take your questions. Thank you."
What a bunch of simpering, feminized bootlickers...
Sickening, frankly.
D.C. is full of pervert weirdos... I am tired of it... Get some men in there who can think with the appendage on the upper end of their spinal columns...
But, first make sure they have a spine!
Just turn on the television...
It was a brilliant way of making fun of the PC disease that is threatening to destroy our great country. Good on ya', Ann. Don't some of you get it? No matter WHAT we do or say, we will be framed as monsters. It's time to plow straight ahead and ignore the media machine.
This remark, from a prominent conservative pundit, will send them scurrying back to the DNC like a vacuum cleaner sends cats scurrying under the bed. Ann has made a lot of very salient points over the years, but she's getting drunk on publicity and this last bit was the roar of the vacuum.
But how many times have we looked to the moderate muslim world, waiting for them to distance themselves verbally from terrorists and extremists? People here are seeing this from the inside, not from the outside. We who are conservative already know that Ann Coulter saying "faggot" reflects nothing on Mitt, Duncan, Newt, etc.... but to the outsider, the conservative world is one big indistinguishable block. When one does something screwed up, it reflects on us all.
Exactly. And Ann Coulter is so utterly insignificant to the Conservative movement. She changes no minds on the left, merely entertains on the right, and will be forgotten when she is gone.
>> She didn't have to rain on CPAC's parade.
I understand the sentiment of those upset by her words; nonetheless, the facts remain, too many lost their bearing and ability to focus by the mere utterance of one word.
In the age of terrorism, religious warfare, severe neglect of abortion, loss of civil rights, a few Conservatives decide to show outrage over a joke instead of questioning the policies of those attending.
If decorum still remains the issue, perhaps the offended could find comfort in the writings of Emerson who speaks to the use of bawdy language.
Sorry if I take a pass on drinking Ann's Koolaid at Coultertown. I'm just not that suicidal.
Didn't you have enough of the gutter with bubba in the White House?
You didn't think that was a laugh line she made?
It's a good thing Democrat voters are just as hypocritical in their daily lives (I work in Cambrdige, so I know this for a fact), or else these two would be in trouble.
LOL!Perfectly brilliant example, PJ. In fact all your posts on this thread that I've scrolled by so far are spot-on. As for me, I haven't been able to decide what's worse:
(1)that Ann decided to lob this stinkgrenade in the laps of the poor unsuspecting candidates who shared the dais with her just to score a cheap snicker & hike up her book sales, and that she couldn't seem to care less that in the process of so doing she turned off a huge swath of conservatism's target market (the swath that loathes shrill adolescent hypocrites).
or
(2) or that she chose to ignite this firefight with a line so appallingly lame, so embarassingly third-rate that no self-respecting fourth grade boy with an even slightly well-honed sense of humor would want to claim authorship of it. On the sophistication scale, her remark was about on par with as "Yo mama eats boogers!".
But reading the posts around here, you'd think she could give Mark Twain a run for his money by spouting such a clumsy, creaky, childishly crass put-down!
Is it me, or have the standards for smart, sharp-witted humor taken one hell of a nosedive around here?
>> Didn't you have enough of the gutter with bubba in the White House?
The analogy doesn't apply in my opinion. The one about 'casting stones' has a better fit.
I surveyed another thread that made reference to the glee some on the left were experiencing regarding the recent aggression against Cheney. Mentioned elsewhere were references to the openely vile sexual comments directed towards Ann Coulter by those that hate her. When Conservatives begin to have moments of self aggrandizement over obnoxious political remarks, especially those made by Coulter, I'm troubled by the absence of character of those indulging in the exploit. And yes sir/madam, I find in the grand scheme of things the repulsion expressed by some Conservatives regarding Coulter's remark is worse than the remark itself.
OK, we shouldn't use that word. John Edwards is effeminate.
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