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I disagree. There are not many "Conservatives" who would call Muslims "ragheads."

Raghead, shmaghead. Lighten up. Do you honestly believe calling a terrorist a "raghead" is going to offend them even more? You look at these people funny and they want to blow something up.

I, for one, have been calling ragheads "ragheads" since they took over the Embassy in Tehran. I have been Conservative even longer. There are worse epithets out there, and I thought I was being nice. The cartoons were a lot nastier then, at least nastier than anything the Danish papers published, even if they traveled by fax machine.

This illustrates one more reason Conservatives need the likes of Ann Coulter.

Conservatives are so cowed by political correctness, now in its second generation, that they can't even phrase the argument in unabashed terms without being jumped on by other Conservatives.

If we allow our opponents to decide what words we can use, then they frame the debate and, from there, even the thoughts which can be expressed.

The Left's extremists are burning labs and condos, setting animals free from medical research facilities, sending letter bombs, chaining themselves to trees, fences, and other fixed objects, and our "extremist" is getting flack over "raghead"?

For Pete's sake. It is no wonder that the GOP has been steadily drifting to the left.

So much so that a potential GOP POTUS candidate for 2008 has been praised by some on this site with the following "conservative" credentials: pro abortion, pro illegal immigration, pro gay marriage, and pro gun control. (Rudy Guiliani)

Painting a Pepsi can red does not make it Coca Cola, even though some will not be able to tell the difference.

Back to Ann. For those of us who remember the Kennedy years all too well, (Jack, not Teddy), Ann is like a breath of fresh air. Whether right, wrong, or indifferent, she calls them as she sees them, and if that is too much for your tastes, so be it.