I'm sorry you misunderstand things so badly. Coulter would have been a lot more effective if she had stuck to the best points she made -- the actual "effective argument" -- and then restrained herself from doing a Michael Moore impression at the last minute which gives the liberals - and a *ton* of undecideds -- evidence to confirm the worst things they've heard about conservatives. The people whom it would most benefit us to hear Coulter's actual *points* aren't going to bother listening to see what they are, because whenever she appears they're going to say, "oh, it's that loose-cannon kook who said those awful things". You know, the way we tune out Michael Moore and James Carville, because after hearing some of their more outrageous tirades, we don't have the stomach to give them a chance to say anything that might make sense. And be assocation, they're going to wonder if *all* of us conservatives are seething vitriol-flingers, just as we write off most of the liberals because they're in bed with Franken and the Dixie Chicks and so on.
It's not that we're "pussies" -- it's that we know this is about convincing people to our side, not seeing how many people we can kick in the teeth because we're p*ssed off over something. What really "undermines our cause" is loose cannons which drive people away from conservatism who might otherwise have listened with an open mind and been won over. I've seen it happen time and time again.
Read the editorial again -- the whole thing. He explains it well. If you still don't get it after that, well, I can't help you. I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
cuse' me while I choke on the furball you coughed up.
It is a fallacy to believe that people are convinced by others to join our side. If you ask anyone who used to be a liberal, you will find that typically, they woke up one day ashamed of who they were associating with. In short, Liberalism left them, they didn't leave it. Liberalism in its craziness, continues to drive out people who remember to think once in awhile.
Do you think all those people buying Coulter's book are Conservatives? If so, you would be wrong. Coulter clubs people over the head, yet is #1, baby. People will read her book and wake up to the sheer stupidity of the liberal agenda. Also, anyone who would simply accept the comments of others, and not read the book on their own and develop their own opinion, is someone we don't want on our side anyway.
As Coulter says; "The truth cannot be given with Novocain."
I'll do you the favor of assuming you're suffering from Battered Conservative Syndrome. The author holds up Rush Limbaugh as a model conservative, yet Limbaugh used to be, and is sometimes still, edgy. I can remember when I first started listening to him I was almost embarrassed that others would find out. Rush made it possible for alot of us to voice our opinions with greater confidence. Anne serves the same function, except her mind is so much more sharp. That fact that you and so many other conservapussies feel the need to apologize for a legitimate and important observation by Anne demonstrates that Anne and her style are still sorely needed. The day you and Dunn have no need to grovel and kiss liberal kiester will be the day the 'Rats aren't racking up nearly half the votes.