Why, no. I was born yesterday. Sheesh! The inability of some folks to grasp context is just amazing.
She deliberately walks right into the public relations trap set by the Left during the McCarthy era.
Yep. The trap of which I speak has nothing to do with McCarthy, other than the fact that the Left was able to turn his name into an epithet. The epithet is the trap of which I speak. The Left can and does get away with saying the most outrageous, irresponsible things, but people on the Right are instantly stereotyped with all sorts of labels when they say or do comparable things.
As a conservative, I am sick to death of seeing us stereotyped like that, and I resent people like Coulter, Buchanan, Keyes, Savage, and others like them who make it all-too-easy for the Left and its MSM shills to do so.
We have made a great deal of progress since 1980 of shedding the extremist image the Left painted conservatives with between the HUAC hearings in the 1940's and the Nixon era. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich and others who knew how to fight hard, but effectively, many of our ideas have moved into the mainstream. I do not want to see us go backwards, and I believe Coulter and her polemics serve only to alienate many apolitical voters.
I much prefer the style of someone like Rush Limbaugh, who has been one of THE strongest, most popular conservative voices for a long time. Rush never descends into the gutter. He is hard-hitting and effective without being cruel and acidic.
If you like Coulter, fine. I don't -- and am amused by the fact that some people seem hell-bent on forcing folks with my opinion of her to either join the club or go away and shut up.
Bingo! And that is the heart of my objection to your comments: historically the Left has destroyed anyone who gets in the way, and this is all the more easily done when people who should know better rush to bolster and justify their hyperventilating.
We have made a great deal of progress since 1980 of shedding the extremist image the Left painted conservatives with between the HUAC hearings in the 1940's and the Nixon era.
Oh, Good Lord. Please stop talking about "history." It's very clear you either were born yesterday, are a black propagandist, or a dope. HUAC investigated and uncovered real spies. The only reason HUAC has gotten a black eye is because the repeated lies of Leftist propagandists--WHICH YOU ARE REPEATING--have been left unchallenged by conservatives. I absolutely defy you to produce one example of one historically disputed claim on which HUAC was mistaken and the Left was correct. ONE. Until you can, please stop holding forth on a topic about which you clearly not only know nothing, but are repeating malicious untruths.
Second, Nixon was not a conservative. Never was. Nixon started the EPA, revenue sharing, negative income tax, wage and price controls, and OSHA, just to name a few. The ideological right (which did NOT exist at the time of HUAC or McCarthy) carried water for him because--like G.W. Bush, who is also no conservative--he was on the right side of the great conflict of his time.
I much prefer the style of someone like Rush Limbaugh, who has been one of THE strongest, most popular conservative voices for a long time. Rush never descends into the gutter. He is hard-hitting and effective without being cruel and acidic.
Rush is the indispensable conservative, but you're wrong about his never "descending into the gutter," if that gutter is defined by is critics. Exactly the same things have been said about Rush over the course of his career, but luckily, people haven't fallen all over themselves to agree with his detractors. And whatever else, you will NOT catch Rush Limbaugh jumping on a band wagon to trash a conservative with less than satisfactory social skills making a valid point. He understands as well as anybody that the left throws their hateful spaghetti at all of us, and he is not going to give them any help in making it stick.
If you like Coulter, fine. I don't -- and am amused by the fact that some people seem hell-bent on forcing folks with my opinion of her to either join the club or go away and shut up.
Actually, I don't like Coulter all that much. I find her personal manner off-putting, don't think she's especially attractive--though this is clearly of overhwelming importance to her--and I think P.J. O'Rourke is much more intelligent and humorous satirist. That said, I take her side in the current debate for the same reason I would take McCarthy's, or HUAC's, or Nixons. All of these people were demonized by the Left, and all of them were right in their opposition to Communism, and, like Coulter, their character deficiencies were nowhere near as egregious as those of many Leftists who continue to be adored long after their treachery or treason have been revealed.
A person wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt has made a far more outrageous and offensive public political remark than anything Coulter has ever said or written. Let's bring that point up whenever some lib/lefty wants to talk about Ann, or Nixon, or McCarthy. The Left is going to do their usual job tearing us down. Stop helping them with their bloodwork.