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To: Paul Ross
The left claiming there is a "cult of Coulter" is straight out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals:
8.Pick the target. Target an individual, personalize the attack, polarize and demoralize his/her supporters. Go after people, not institutions. Hurting, harassing, and humiliating individuals, especially leaders, causes more rapid organizational change.
The history of conservatism since FDR (probably before) is the history of one person, time and again, being picked out for demonization by the left while what that person said and stood for is mistated or ignored. Weak conservatives become rattled by the attacks, polarized, and do the left's work for them.
238 posted on 07/18/2003 4:17:07 PM PDT by DPB101
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To: DPB101
Call me a cultist then. I didn't really pick up on the negative connotations of being a Coulter-cultist. But you are definitely right that the Left is TRYING to demonize Ann. Just as they did with Phyllis Schafly. And are trying to do with GWB.
239 posted on 07/18/2003 4:21:52 PM PDT by Paul Ross (A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!-A. Hamilton)
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To: DPB101
Call me a cultist then. I didn't really pick up on the negative connotations of being a Coulter-cultist. But you are definitely right that the Left is TRYING to demonize Ann. Just as they did with Phyllis Schafly. Or Dr. Laura Schlesinger. And are trying to do with GWB.
240 posted on 07/18/2003 4:22:36 PM PDT by Paul Ross (A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!-A. Hamilton)
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