I'm sure the strategy has it's adherents, but calling Presidential candidates faggots is really stupid. From a political perspective. If you're selling books, it works.
She didn't call Edwards a faggot.
She said, "It turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot"....
Coulter did not call the Breck Girl a faggot. I would do that but she did not.
It was a joke. It combined a current events story with the popular conservative charge that Edwards is a girly-man. She doesn't think he is gay, so acting like it was a real accusation is just exceedingly silly and irresponsible.
Oh well said. I hadn't really thought about that distinction.
She's not a politician, she's a book seller. And the response from the Edwards camp illustrates her point. BTW, her point was more about political correctness, not Edwards. Made brilliantly. No one is happier about it than Hillary and Obama, though I'm sure they will feign outrage like everyone else. Emphasis on FEIGN.
"I'm sure the strategy has it's adherents, but calling Presidential candidates faggots is really stupid. From a political perspective. If you're selling books, it works."
It is sickening to me that so-called conservatives a) can't see that this was a joke on "rehab for using a word." and b) can't wait to jump on a person who has championed the cause and taken all the arrows while they sit on their asses and post endless about their particular obsession. Which in your case is Jews and Israel.
Why anyone would seek to be a leader in the conservative movement is beyond me or any human understanding. If there is a worse group for knee-jerk backstabbing at the slightest pretext, I don't want to meet them.
People like you, SJackson, make me sick. But you have a lot of company around here.