Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn (Dem Delaware Senate Candidate)

Politico ^ | 5/3/10 10:52 PM EDT | ALEX ISENSTADT

[AuH2ORepublican]

I think that the evidence that Coons “admitted” to being a “bearded Marxist” is overblown. As the Politico article indicates, when Coons arrived at Amherst College as an undergrad he was a clean-shaven Republican who was fresh from having campaigned for President Reagan in 1980, and he worked for GOP Sen. William Roth and became one of the founders of the Amherst Republican Club. Coons started becoming more liberal while at the school, and by the time he returned to Amherst for his senior year after a semester in Kenya he had grown a beard, become a full-blown liberal and joined the Democrats. His friends joked that he had returned as a “bearded Marxist,” and when he wrote an article in the Amherst Student about his experiences and transformation into a liberal Democrat he titled it “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist” (one of the lines in the article was “My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists.”).

I don’t think that Coons was admitting to being a Marxist, he was merely using the characterization that others had jokingly made about him. Now, a smart person would have placed “Bearded Marxist” in quotes to make clear that it is not a self-appellation, but, given that Coons went from a supporter of President Reagan to a liberal Democrat in four short years, we already knew that intelligence isn’t his strong suit.

This will get a bit of attention in the MSM and lot of press in conservative circles, but I think that his spokesman’s explanation, and the quotes from the article, will defuse whatever potential this had of becoming a major issue. I mean, if it convinced me that there’s not really anything there, I don’t think that moderates will find his 1985 article to be a big deal.

So O’Donnell won’t be able to ride Coons’s “bearded Marxist” remark to victory. But on more hopeful news for O’Donnell, she has raised over $900,000 since she won the primary, and Rasmussen just released a poll showing her down by only 53%-42% among likely voters, which isn’t as bad as I thought she would be. O’Donnell has 47 days to redefine herself as a competent, honest conservative who will work for the people and define Coons as a dangerous liberal beholden to special interests. It won’t be easy, but all of that money that she has raised will help (so long as she uses it for TV ads).

[Impy]

If not for liberal colleges, former Goldwater girl Hillary Rodham or Hillary Huckabee or whatever her name would be may have stayed a Republican and been a hero to all of us. *Shudder*

Or maybe she would have been Hillary Kirk, Princess of the RINOs. ;d

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Or maybe she would have been Hillary Kirk, Princess of the RINOs"

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She'd *definitely* be the Queen of the RINOs. Her marriage to Mark Kirk would be a curious one.

[darkangel82]

Yuck.

[stefanbatory]

I had a similar experience living in a country that was formerly communist...the destruction and more prevalently the neglect and shoddy quality was evident everywhere. Then there was the vast human toll to consider...*shudder*

[ExTexasRedhead]

Highlighting Democrat Party affiliation and their RAT parties anti-American agenda is all that Conservative Candidates need to do when going after Ruling Class Liberals running on November 2nd. We The People have seen the RATs or shall we just call them the anti-American “enemies within” do everything Zero, Pelosi, and Reid demand to destroy our country in every way imaginable including DeathCare, stimulus, bank reform, CAP and TAX and their agenda list goes on. That should convince anyone with brain cells functioning that these RATs have to be voted out or against in order to preserve our freedom and to ensure our future.

To me, Democrat is synonymous with the likes of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or Hamas. All three of these and the Democrat Party are out to destroy this country as fast as they can.

Anyone disputing that, please explain.

[CPT Clay]

The leftist Politico published this? What is next? An interview with Katie Couric asking tough questions to a “bearded Marxist”?

[CPT Clay]

May

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you, Impy. [Coons v O’Donnell].

[onyx]

I can't recall the exact quote but Winston Churchill wrote about parents sending their Christian children to expensive liberal universities in the Northeast where they're taught by Communists and by the time they return home their children are liberal atheists.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Arthur Wildfire! March.