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To: BlackElk
Your response is fair and well thought out. Let me ask you this then:

Is there ANYTHING Ann Coulter could say, provided she kept the conservative line, that you would consider out of bounds and would cause you to not support her?

So you know that I'm not trying to trap you here I'm simply trying to find out if there are no limits in your mind as long as she sounds like a female Pat Buchanan.
185 posted on 03/09/2007 5:42:36 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Be a REAL conservative. Stay home and pout so Hillary can win!)
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To: Artemis Webb
I don't want her or anyone else to sound like Pat Buchanan on most matters. Pat is right on abortion and limpwrist "rights" but paleo is not me. I believe in militant intervention with Congress sitting down, shutting up and appropriating whatever is necessary to victory. I figuratively regard diplomacy, internationalism and isolationism as four-letter words.

I voted for Pat Buchanan a couple of times in the 1990s before he discovered paleopantywaistism in foreign/military policy as his idea of conservatism. Pat's only involvement in the conservative movement, as such, was speaking at conferences as a White House official. I won't be voting for him again. OTOH, I think Ann has been a lot more militant in her use of language than gentleman Pat ever was. He is a gentleman of the old school, however wrong on some policies, and the old school is dead. I agree with him on trade and markets and populism and Ann tends not to agree with him on those.

If Ann said that anti-war types support our troops, I would drop her in a second but that kind of statement is not conservative. Like Ann, I am an unreconstructed enthusiast for the sainted Senator Joe McCarthy ((see her Treason). If she said: Whatever we say, let's be really civil and respectful to our enemies, I would drop her but I know that there will be no fear of her saying any such thing. Also, it would not be conservative for her to do so. If she trended libertarian at the expense of tradition, that might be considered rightist in some circles and I would not be pleased. I don't consider bordermania conservatism and I think she does but she is too valuable to be dropped for an issue already decided in favor of my team.

210 posted on 03/10/2007 10:24:02 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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