We had dinner with "Trixie" here last summer and all was friendly.
Later, on her forum, I refered to Hillary as "Senator F---ing J-- B------" and was banned for a "racist remark".
The exchange of emails would not convince Captain Queeg that [s]he was the one who ate the strawberries.
For you see, she accused me of calling Joe Lieberman that epithet, when such was not the case.
Most will remember it was Hillary accused (credibly, I thought) of calling an early campaign manager of the traitor-rapist that nasty tag.
"Trixie" went so far as to use the full spelling in Short Cuts, and market a line of coffee mugs with "FJB" imprinted.
So, when unjustly barred for an offense I hadn't commited, and when no amount of rational pleading would budge She Who Must Be Obeyed, I opted out of the Animal Farm.
I find the interplay here on Free Republic to be passionate, informed and basically self-policing.
There is in Catty Ed, the author of this one-man Roman Senate acupuncture session, the hypocritic hairball that would gag a maggot.
If there's room in the print edition for The Misanthrope, there's room online for Ann Coulter--unless, of course, there's already one prima donna installed; in which case, head out to Horowitzville.
I have his Radical Son and Politics of Bad Faith and friends came back from another of his weekends in Denver--he's a stimulant to the necrotic corpse of Republicanism, or conservatism, as you prefer.
And, God, those people can debate a single hair into a thousand strands. The overintellectualization alone should have killed the left two centuries ago.
Free elections, free speech, free markets--and harpoon the hero of Chappaquiddick. A serviceable platform succinctly put.
But throwing people over the side for calling the officers girly-boys--
Do you not recall the ferocity with which William F. Buckley stood up to remove his jacket, offering to pound Gore Vidal into a lump of Silly Putty? Girlyman? He called him a bleeping faggot, if memory serves.
Give us some sinew, and not only slapping faces with lace panties--
Disclaimer: Of course, Ann Coulter may etcetera etcetera.
I think we all (including Ann and NRO especially) would be much better off if NONE of this had ever been shown. Ann started the public war, then upped the ante, and NRO called her bluff. If they both just shut up and cool off maybe they could reconcile (if they want to, they ARE both on the same side). But tomorrow, Ann will probably fire her salvo, and the escalation will continue. IT IS STUPID. IT IS DESTRUCTIVE. AND THEY SHOULD GROW UP. But is it really important in the grand scheme of things?
If Tom Daschle and George W. Bush can hug and mean it, then why in the world can't Ann and NRO bury the hatchet? Why did she start this public Hatfield-McCoy bit?