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Giuliani, Romney, McCain camps denounce Coulter’s attack on Edwards
Hotair ^ | 5:12 pm on March 3, 2007

Posted on 03/03/2007 2:29:00 PM PST by MovementConservative

Conservative author Jennifer Rubin wondered this morning whether any Republican candidates would have the decency to do a little Sistah Souljah-ing here:

It is not “caving” into political correctness to distance and indeed condemn such remarks as unworthy of a political event like CPAC… Excommunication is not being suggested, just a public rebuke. By clearly stating her comments are beyond the bounds of civil discourse and her presence not a welcome addition to a mature political party, the Republicans could do themselves a world of good. How often does a party have the opportunity to display some measure of dignity, restraint and self-reflection.?
Actually, it sounds like she is suggesting excommunication. No presidental contender’s gone that far (yet), but if it’s condemnation she’s waiting for, the wait is over:

Of the major Republican candidates, only Mr. McCain did not attend [CPAC], but he denounced her remarks on Saturday morning. “The comments were wildly inappropriate,” said his spokesman, Brian Jones.
Mr. Giuliani said, “The comments were completely inappropriate and there should be no place for such name-calling in political debate.”
Kevin Madden, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, said: “It was an offensive remark. Governor Romney believes all people should be treated with dignity and respect.”

Coulter’s own reaction, per an e-mail to the Times: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”

Do the denunciations mean Edwards’s site will quit referring to her as a “Republican mouthpiece” or his campaign manager, David Bonior, will stop sending out fundraising appeals like this?
John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power. Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion. And the Republican attack dogs will keep playing this despicable trick as long as they think it works.

No, of course not. There is a potential silver lining here for gays, though. Says Robbie at the Malcontent: Romney has spent months wooing the Religious Right with culture warrior issues like gay rights and abortion. It certainly doesn’t take an oracle to know gay marriage will come in for yet another bit of rehashing during the 2008 campaign. Now, every single time Romney or any other Republican candidate decides to take gay issues for a good beating to curry favor with the base, at the back of the media’s and many voters’ minds will be Ann Coulter calling someone a faggot after Mitt Romney said nice things about her. Politicians like to euphemize their positions. The sanctity of marriage. Platitudes about disagreeing with gay rights but affording homosexuals in society dignity and respect. Coulter has now made those euphemizations just a little bit more untenable…
If those who support gay issues possess any political wisdom, Coulter’s message will be entwined with anti-gay political rhetoric from now until election day. “Sancitity of Marriage. Faggot. Applause.” All of a piece. Love the sin, hate the sinner? Applause for faggot. Coulter receiving choice interview spots on programming like Hannity and Colmes? Applause for faggot.

For what it’s worth, Romney did win the CPAC straw poll. Rudy came a strong second and, unlike Romney, with no big contingent of his own volunteers there cheering him on.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; coulter; edwards; fagheads; fags; poofters
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To: Sunsong; sauropod
[.. Politics ain't beanbag. I agree with her(Ann Coulter) Jersey Girls remark in "Godless" and don't think her remark about the Breck Girl deserves all this calumny. ..]

Exactly.. calumny.. Coulter is a treasure..

241 posted on 03/03/2007 4:52:02 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: jetson
Anne can call me a faggot any time she wants to.

Better yet if she called me stud!

242 posted on 03/03/2007 4:54:05 PM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: farmer18th
I'm wondering. It's their law you can't stand.

I'm glad that you decided to make that argument. Jews themselves can't stand Old Testament law, nor can any sane person in the 21st Century. Would you kill your child for being disobedient, as the Old Testament says? Of course you don't, because the Old Testament applies to everyone but yourself.
243 posted on 03/03/2007 4:54:18 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: farmer18th

Like I said there is no difference between you and the a**hole that goes around protesting our brave soldiers funerals. Judge and you shall be judged by our creator.


244 posted on 03/03/2007 4:54:27 PM PST by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: LtdGovt

The flint looks dull. Happily.


245 posted on 03/03/2007 4:55:06 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: Sunsong
I think it shows that the big three know the difference between wit and ridicule.

Nope, it clearly shows that the Big Three are going to continue the same "bipartisanship" and "reaching out" bologna to the Democrats because they got suckered by the MSM to condemn remarks made by a private citizen.

246 posted on 03/03/2007 4:55:21 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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To: LtdGovt

So you DO hate Jews then? You hate their book, right?


247 posted on 03/03/2007 4:57:29 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: Sunsong
kindness and common decency are conservative values that we all, hopefully, aspire to.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nope. That doesn't win elections, and no we don't need bipartisanship , nor the liberal democrats permission to get really in attack mode to win the election.

We have to wait until liberal RINOs and Democrats say its OK to turn on the nasty switch? Nope. Anne shows us just how to do it.

Thats why they don't like us Freepers and other bloggers, we aggressively call them on their little image making lies, just like we did with John Kerry 3 years ago.

Thats why the RINOs went for McCain/Feingold , to prevent us from telling truths 60 days befoore an election.

No, we will get aggressive early , and inspire the grass roots of the Republican party, and THAT the RINOs do not like, becuase they cannot spin it or shape it, or make their purchased images fit it.

So NO NO NO!

Conducting agressive research and invoking knee jerk reactions in liberals is not an offence against kindness and common decency or conservative values. Preventing those things are designed simply to shut the grass roots organization out.

Now why would you wanna do that gurl. You like the RINOs too much?

248 posted on 03/03/2007 4:58:30 PM PST by Candor7
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To: jrooney

I can tell you seem to be a real Bible scholar. You seem to have forgotten entire sections of the New Testament, heah, and you hate the founding fathers too?


249 posted on 03/03/2007 4:58:37 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: leilani
To take on the democrats how, EEE? The way Ann did with a crass & petty "joke" that any self-respecting middle-schooler would consider terminally lame and in the process made all conservatives look like a tittering mob of childish, priggish hypocrites?

In the eyes of whom, liberals who hate conservatives' guts anyway?

Every liberal and their colleague in the Democrat party and media already had the predisposed notion that CPAC was nothing more than right-wing, redneck, Christian wacko festival anyway, so who cares what they think.

250 posted on 03/03/2007 4:59:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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To: farmer18th
So you DO hate Jews then? You hate their book, right?

Not wanting to impose Old Testament law does not equal hating the Old Testament and that in turn does not equal hating Jews, Einstein.
251 posted on 03/03/2007 4:59:43 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Candor7

The sons of liberty didn't just ridicule their opponents; they rode them out of town on a fence rail. I'm beginnng to think we need to get much more in touch with our nasty, judgemental side, if we ever are going to wake up this republic.


252 posted on 03/03/2007 5:00:45 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: farmer18th
You seem to have forgotten entire sections of the New Testament,

You, too!

"Judge not lest ye be judged with what measure ye judge ye so also be judged." So if you judge other people by not holding themselves to Old Testamen law, YOU will be judged by the inevitability of not holding to Old Testamen law.

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." Who was the liberal Jew-hater who said this? /s
253 posted on 03/03/2007 5:02:21 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: MovementConservative

I find Giuliani's support of federal funding for babykilling to be far more offensive than Ann Coulter's use of the word "faggot."


254 posted on 03/03/2007 5:02:53 PM PST by Old_Mil (Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: sauropod

These people act like politics were all pure and pristine until recently. Apparently, Senator Sumner getting his ass kicked in the Senate chamber is lost on the hand-wringers.


255 posted on 03/03/2007 5:02:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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To: plain talk
While I agree with you I don't understand why these candidates had to respond at all.

Probably instructed by their handlers to do so.

256 posted on 03/03/2007 5:03:15 PM PST by airborne (Elect an Airborne Ranger,Vietnam Veteran for President ! Duncan Hunter 2008!!)
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To: LtdGovt
Not wanting to impose Old Testament law

So you don't like capital punishment, then? You have a problem with private property? Those are all old testament ideas. You hate those ideas?

You must, if you mix them up with the Q'uran which justifies child molestation. (Mohammed took a nine year old to wife) You must really hate the Jews if you compare godless Muslims to the spiritual ancestors of our own Western tradition.
257 posted on 03/03/2007 5:03:43 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: jrooney
In case you haven't checked look at a photo of Ronald Reagan, and then look at a photo of Anne Coulter.

They are not alike. And their roles are distinctly different. Anne inspires and shows the way.

She actually got three leading candidates to denounce her for an off hand remark she made that is political truth!

She revealed how politically correct the candidates are. None of them will be able to win the presidency in that mode, and they are waiting for the Dems to get nasty first, hell the Dems been nasty to pubbies for nigh on three years. Who you foolin?

Yourself

258 posted on 03/03/2007 5:03:45 PM PST by Candor7
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To: farmer18th

I could care less if you spout the bible word for word from cover to cover from memory. If you judge and preach hate, you shall be judge by our creator, and not so kindly.


259 posted on 03/03/2007 5:04:11 PM PST by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My view on Coulter, pardon the pun, is that she is perhaps the only conservative to call a liberal spade a liberal spade.

The Big Three Rino's lost a lot of ground with me over their wimpish remarks about Coulter.

Too PC in my book.

Time to look elsewhere.

260 posted on 03/03/2007 5:04:12 PM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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