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To: Wolfstar
"Coulter's way is stupid."

Is that so? How do you suppose the Leftists have fought us, by the way? How is it that they have enjoyed not only decades of political power, but now control almost all of the institutions in the Western world?

By being nice? By being terribly, wonderfully polite?

What a comedy.

71 posted on 06/15/2006 11:16:44 AM PDT by Reactionary (The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
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To: Reactionary
By being nice? By being terribly, wonderfully polite?

No, by being smart and effective. Coulter is not effective for anything or any one except her own enrichment.

I'll give you an example using a Pat Buchanan incident I witnessed back when he was running for president. Buchanan, as you may remember, was the Coulter-style conservative bomb-thrower of the late 1980's and early 1990's. As with Coulter now, a great many conservatives loved what Buchanan was doing. Buchanan was so popular with conservatives that he ran for president and won the New Hampshire Primary in 1996. Had he come out of New Hampshire with an smart, effective game plan, he might very well have won the nomination and the White House.

Instead, he went to Arizona and allowed himself to be photograph like this:

Also while in Arizona, he attended a campaign rally in an auditorium where he took questions from the audience. At one point, a man stood up and asked Buchanan a question that Pat didn't like. He wound up loudly and nastily arguing with the man for several minutes. The two men traded shouts and insults over the heads of the audience. Most people in the audience -- overwhelmingly Buchanan supporters -- began squirming in their seats and looking very uncomfortable. The event was caught by TV cameras and broadcast around the state, as well as elsewhere. The photograph and that incident killed his presidential candidacy deader than dead, and Buchanan had no one else to blame but himself.

So again, there is a smart, effective way to do things and a stupid way. Coulter's way enriches herself, but does nothing for the conservative cause.

92 posted on 06/15/2006 11:47:44 AM PDT by Wolfstar (So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn, There's vultures and thieves at your back...)
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