Ann Coulter: A Green Card in Every Pot

Human Events ^ | 30 may 07 | Ann Coulter

[rellimpank]

Americans -- at least really stupid Americans like George Bush -- believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic economy. On this view, most of the existing world and almost all of world history is a freakish aberration.

In fact, the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world.

The British Empire once spread the culture of prosperity around the globe -- Judeo-Christian values, tolerance, equality, private property and the rule of law. All recipients of the British Empire's largesse benefited, but the empire's most successful colony was the United States.

[cammie]

at least really stupid Americans like George Bush

[caveat emptor]

She makes some good points here.

Perhaps, but with a beginning like this -- Americans - at least really stupid Americans like George Bush -- she can't get any worse. Thanks Ann, but no thanks.

[cammie]

at least really stupid Americans like George Bush

Yet another classy statement from the monumentally arrogant Ann Coulter.

[donna]

Oct. 2004
HISPANIC MAGAZINE:
What events, experiences and people in your life formed your knowledge of Hispanics and feelings toward them?

GEORGE W. BUSH:
I was raised in Texas. And Texas is a land that has a lot of Mexican Americans. My brother married a Mexican national, and I have gotten to know her and come to respect her, respect her culture and respect her heart. One of the most amazing experiences in my life was to watch a woman named Paula Rendón, who came up from Mexico to work in our house. She came to Houston in 1959. She was a woman looking for a way to make some wages to support her family back in Mexico.

She loved me. She chewed me out. She tried to shape me up. And I have grown to love her like a second mom. But what I watched was this fantastic lady raise three kids in Houston, Texas ... and those kids started going to college, and I saw the pride in Paula to see her grandkids go to college for the first time, the first generation of her family to have gone to college. What I saw there was the great American dream take place.

The thing that struck me of the Hispanics in Texas was one, the strong value system, and second, the deep desire to have their children educated. When you look at my immigration policy, I recognize people are coming to America to work.

http://www.hispaniconline.com/magazine/2004/oct/Features/bush.html

[cammie]

I should explain that further. Even in sarcasm, I don’t believe one of our own should call the President stupid.

[cammie]

Those who don't have the guts for a down and dirty fight, which politics is, at its heart, can't help but cringe and wince as she steamrolls over the kinder, gentler, tone.

Or perhaps some of us just think that in the battle to win America's hearts, minds, and (most importantly) votes, Ann Coulter does the conservative side far more harm than good. Steyn, on the other hand, is a genius and a gentleman, who gets across his points clearly, succinctly and sans the nasty personal attacks that have marked some of Coulter's more recent works.

[Travis McGee]

We have imported a servant class. They are doing jobs Americans aren’t doing. Since everyone wants their children to be good yuppies and go to college and avoid manual labor and service jobs, those jobs are going to the illegals.

I just moved from San Diego to NE Florida last year, so I have a new perspective. Guess what? The landscapers, roofers, concrete workers etc etc are all AMERICANS here! WOW! No illegal Mexicans hanging out in front of HD either! AMERICANS are doing all those jobs the President says AMERICANS won't do!

[Travis McGee]

Even in sarcasm, I don’t believe one of our own should call the President stupid.

Why is that? And if he's not stupid for shoving this nation-wrecking amnesty down our national throat, then pray tell what is his intelligent motive?

[ChessExpert]

Outstanding article. She didn’t just hit a home run; it was a grand slam.

[Ramius]

It was just a figure of speech. I do think it is safe to say that the immigration that’s causing all this fuss is from Mexico rather than other various, and minor, sources.

I’m not in favor of open borders either. I’m just in favor of getting better control over the flood of people coming here to work. Then the border patrol and customs will have a more realistic chance to do the important task of keeping the bad guys out.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Bush has no intention of controlling the border, he favors the free flow of people, it’s part of his Wall St. Journal, free trade philosophy. Talk of more border control is only that, 18 months from now just as many will be violating those borders as they are today, and probably even more so.

[ChessExpert]

Yes, I think he said $30 Billion (over a few years) a doubling of the prior effort of $15B. I hope we can bring it back down to $15 Billion. At least we will save $15 Billion!

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

Why? Here’s why Bush is for amnesty in a nutshell. “Privatize the profits and socialize the costs.”
What this means is the corporate boys who financed him get megaprofits from lowering wages in their meatpacking plants and other industries like agriculture (Privatize Profits) and dump the costs of education, medical care, law enforcement for the millions of illegals on the middle class, who are losing their jobs and being taxed to support the illegals.

Short terms profits - billions. Long term result, America turns into a third world slum with Venezuela type politicians and a dead Republican party. Thanks, Jorge!

[processing please hold]

Welcome back. It has been a long time.

[cammie]

No one said there was an intelligent motive behind this. The objection was to a columnist calling the President “really stupid.” Calling out an ACTION of his as “stupid” is one thing. Calling HIM “really stupid” is quite another. But expecting nuanced thought from Ann Coulter is like expecting nuanced thought from Rosie O’Donnell.

[fr_freak]

Or perhaps some of us just think that in the battle to win America's hearts, minds, and (most importantly) votes, Ann Coulter does the conservative side far more harm than good.

I used to think that way too, back when I believed that voting is done primarily by people of great thought and intelligence. Nowadays, in the age of MTV, I think Coulter's in-your-face style may actually attract some people to the conservative side who might otherwise have voted lefty. After all, there aren't that many people, especially among the younger crowd, who respect wimps. In addition, those who hold conservative values already are not going to be driven from the fold by Coulter alone. As an example, you probably don't like Coulter, and maybe you are even occasionally offended by her remarks. However, you are not going to abandon conservatism because of that, are you?

Maybe you should think of Coulter and Steyn as kind of a jab-hook combination. Coulter hits them low and Steyn hits them high. That way, both target zones are covered.

[Democrat_media]

Tens of millions of poor, uneducated, unskilled, ignorant, proto socialist immigrants doesn’t help any economy. It hurts it badly and is a huge burden in Social security and welfare benefits.

If population increases helped the economy then why are so many third world countries that have high birth rates like Mexico complete economic disasters?

It is technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, free markets and automation that increases productivity and raises living standards. These uneducated immigrants stifle innovation, stifle automation and advancement of technology.

Japan doesn’t need to import millions of Mexicans . They build robots to work in their car factories. That hasn’t hurt the quality of their cars by the way.

[Travis McGee]

Sending the nation hurtling toward a bloody Balkan-style civil war is, to me, REALLY REALLY STUPID.

Or evil. Take your pick. The coming civil war will be the worst tragedy to strike this nation since the original civil war. To send the nation down this path like an out of control train with the throttle chained open heading for a broken bridge, is REALLY REALLY STUPID.

Or REALLY REALLY EVIL.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, too long. Go Duncan Hunter, BTW!

[Perchant]

Even in sarcasm, I don’t believe one of our own should call the President stupid.

I hate to say it but calling Bush "stupid" is the last refuge of those who want to believe that Bush means well but he simply doesn't understand the consequences. It's almost a compliment at this point.

The "accomplishments" that Bush will hold up as his legacy will be legislation that he instructed Ted Kennedy to write for him and you can't pass that off as merely "stupid". As for fighting terrorism, history will recognize that he left our borders wide open at a time when we were fighting enemies who wanted to come to the US to do us harm. Future generations will no be able to reconcile those two things.