Coulter stirs up a storm (Excerpts from a recent speech)

Washington Times ^ | 8/16/02 | Ann Coulter

[kattracks]

The following are excerpts from a recent speech given by lecturer, writer and TV pundit Ann Coulter to the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute, which promotes school choice and prepares young women for conservative leadership. Her most recent book, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right," is currently on the New York Times best-seller list.

[RonDog]

...Even the current president, [George W.] Bush, began his campaign by making "compassionate conservatism" the hallmark of his campaign.
I don't know; a lot of us think conservatism is compassionate...

LOL! Great minds think alike.

conservatism_IS_compassion signed up 1999-02-27.

[TLBSHOW]

bump to truth

[RonDog]

The following are excerpts from a recent speech given by lecturer, writer and TV pundit Ann Coulter to the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute, which promotes school choice and prepares young women for conservative leadership...

From http://www.cblpolicyinstitute.org/clarebio.htm:

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987

        The Institute looks to the achievements and philosophy of Clare Boothe Luce for guidance because she personified the qualities that mainstream women admire.

         Mrs. Luce was a leader in the free world's opposition to communism, an outspoken advocate of free enterprise, and a woman devoted to her family.   She came under the same kind of attack from liberals and feminists of her day that modern women encounter today when they are successful without espousing feminist ideas.

         Mrs. Luce was the editor of Vanity Fair, an award-winning playwright, a prolific author, a foreign and domestic journalist, a Congresswoman from Connecticut, the American Ambassador to Italy, a widely admired conservative leader, as well as a loving wife and mother.

         Mrs. Luce is thought by many to have been the most influential woman in both modern American history and the American conservative movement.  Born just three years after the turn of the century, her astounding personal and public accomplishments made it natural that the title "The Woman of the Century" was bestowed upon her after her death.

Creative Language from Clare Boothe Luce

Learn More About Clare Boothe Luce at the Library of Congress

Read an excerpt from Luce's essay "Is the New Morality Destroying America?"

Memories From Her Grandaughter, Clare Luce Abbey

[RAT Patrol]

I love that woman! She defends me better than anyone!

[RonDog]

Bought and read her book...

From:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/bestseller/0818besthardnonfiction.html
(no-charge registration required to view this page):

August 18, 2002

Hardcover Nonfiction

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	SLANDER, by Ann Coulter. (Crown, $25.95.) The lawyer and pundit enumerates "liberal lies about the American right."	1	6

[Chemnitz]

Brilliant and beautiful. Sigh.

[sweetliberty]

" the one issue that really unites liberals is hate"

What poetic irony.

[vetvetdoug]

I believe Cohen played right into Ann's hand with his recent diatribe against her. She has dared the libs to debate and give valid cogent reasons for their beliefs and all they can do is attack her, not her beliefs. This lady has dared them to do the opposite of what they have been doing and offer them some small amount of credibility and all they do is validate her book and her points with every op-ed and newsmedia report. Cohen was right on one aspect, Ann is a shrew but he left out the last letter (shrewd).

[WaterDragon]

Click HERE for a grateful tribute to beautiful Ann Coulter.

[goldstategop]

There's no political conversation in this country worthy of the name. With liberals full of hate as they are we ought to refuse to debate them, respond to their water carriers in the media, and go over their heads to the American people. We ought not to dignify their perverted philosophy or pretend they are a legitimate party in American life. The other side does neither. So why play their game? As Ann says, if we took a hike American politics and our government would be much better off for it. What's the use of electing Republicans to office if they're constantly afraid of the Rats and trying to compete with them in how many X dollars can be stolen from hard working Americans? Its time to send a powerful message that we expect the best of our own candidates and we won't tolerate the kind of juvenile behavior we've been seeing in the other side anymore. Let's take the election this year as an opportunity to send one.

[ArGee]

"Liberals are liars, there are no ghosts and let's stop debating."

I posted this theory on another thread, but I'll post it here also.

People are born with a lot of problems. Some are born without full use of their limbs. Some are born with birth defects like spina bifida. All are born hopelessly ignorante. However, people rise above these problems rather than surrendering to them.

Make that "conservatives" not "people." Liberals seem to just surrender to being hopelessly ignorant.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

Absolutely. I'm sick of "compassionate conservatism".

What we need is a good tagname for liberalism. One very bad example is "lousy liberalism." I can't think of a good one, but the best minds on FR can.

Worthless liberalism is accurate, but not alliterative.

'Lil help?

Shalom.

[American Preservative]

This appearance's for you. ; )

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Bought and read her book and would love to see her debate Hitlery!

Fat chance of that! Only if Hil was on the ticket as vp (nearly impossible) and Cheney decided to retire in favor of a younger man person.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Great minds think alike.

conservatism_IS_compassion signed up 1999-02-27.

I'll go along with that!

[George W.] Bush, began his campaign
by making "compassionate conservatism" the hallmark of his campaign.

I don't know; a lot of us think conservatism is compassionate...

You'll note that the date I signed up--and picked this handle--was well before the '00 primaries . . .

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What we need is a good tagname for liberalism.

It'd be even better if we could get the term back from the socialists . . .

The truth is that even "socialism" itself is a deceitful coinage. Leave aside dictionary definitions, and just look at the root word "social." "Socialism" is actually governmentism.

You can easily veryify that by challenging the next "liberal" who says "society should" do such and so. No matter what society at large may already be doing about the concern, the "liberal won't be satisfied because the government isn't doing it. The "liberal" deliberately and systematically uses "society" to mean "government". That usage is a smokescreen precisely to keep the conservative from pointing what society already does.

The free market is social. What is "social" about tyranny?

[elcaudillo]

Thanks for the link. A member of the VRWC, having read the review, would race out to buy Ann's book for sure!

[elcaudillo]

Thanks for the link. A member of the VRWC, having read the review, would race out to buy Ann's book for sure!

[elcaudillo]

Hiccup?

[katherineisgreat]

I was there! It was awesome!