[fr_freak]

She also seems to be right on the big issues. So, what is gained by making her a pariah? And not for a wrong position on an issue even, but for merely talking at an event. I really just don’t get it.

Who is trying to make her a pariah? Ann is way too popular and, as you say, way too right on many issues. Nobody is trying to ostracize her. But when she, or any other conservative, is wrong, should she not be questioned, or disagreed with, simply because she is popular? In fact, it is her popularity that makes this whole thing an issue, because she lends much weight to whichever groups she embraces.

[cothrige]

Maybe I am misreading what I am hearing then, but it sounds to me like people really are looking to ostracize her. The rhetoric is pretty stern and seems focussed not on just disagreement, but seemingly much more to me. But, again, I may be wrong, and if so then please forget I said anything.