Jun 07 2006
Anne Coulter Needs To Keep Quiet
Ed Morrissey has noticed a another Anne Coulter disaster-gaffe in her interview with Matt Lauer promoting her new book (which I will not be reading):
LAUER: On the 9-11 widows, an in particular a group that had been critical of the administration:
COULTER: “These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process.â€
“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much.â€
Ed Morrissey rightfully compares Anne to Ted Rall, one of the most despicable people on the planet. I don’t know what happened to Anne, but she is a walking disaster for conservatives. I was at CPAC when she made her disasterous comment about Ragheads. That was a horror too. At a time we need moderate Muslims to stand by our side and resist the Islamo-fascists Anne detonated a mega-ton stink bomb. Personally I doubt she should ever come back to CPAC. Because we don’t need Begala-Carville-Rall clone, we need all those Muslim-Conservatives groups that set up their tents at CPAC for a week showing solidarity.
I have no problem with anyone speaking in this country – it is their right. And they definitely deserve the right to be respected when speaking from conviction and painful experience, and not slandered and hurt in this way. Anne Coulter is no Conservative. She cannot be. Either that or I am no conservative. There is no way to condone such cruelty. Anne, sit down and just don’t talk anymore. You have done enough damage.
Addendum:Â The 9-11 widows respond to Coulter’s disgraceful comments:
Contrary to Ms. Coulter’s statements, there was no joy in watching men that we loved burn alive. There was no happiness in telling our children that their fathers were never coming home again. We adored these men and miss them every day.
It is in their honor and memory, that we will once again refocus the Nation’s attention to the real issues at hand: our lack of security, leadership and progress in the five years since 9/11.
There is much more, so please read the entire response.
CROSSP
‘Don’t quite understand why you said this
“And by extreme, I mean the really extreme. You know, the ones that voted for Pat Buchanan in the 2000 presidential election (all 449,895 of them). There aren’t that many of them but the Republicans seem to weight them more than they are worth in the pandering department”
Do you think any of those voters read this site. I know you want to imply that anyone that disagrees with you is in this 449,895 but I think I is far more likely that they are reading much more conservative(and that doesn’t take much) sites than this one. You may be more far out than they are
TrentK,
hey, if conservativism is being mouthy and cruel – count me out.
We will create the Politics With Class party, since the far left and far right are emotionally incapable of debating issues in a professional, serious manner and simply succumb to the need to insult. More power to indepenents! Do you think this worries me???
Crosspatch,
Don’t you think FE and all those who call those of us who despise Anne’s cruelty ‘closet liberals’ is just giving liberalism a huge positive? Not only did Anne and her robots tarnish cionservatism, the elevated liberals in the same breathe! I am not liberal. And I know liberals are just as cruel in their arguments. But….
Now that is political suicide. Amazing.
Tell me something will all this emotional blater going on is Ann insulting the 9/11 widows or the phony Jersey Girls.
If her book is insulting people and families who she knows zip about then she is a bitch,
But if she is ragging on people who have become the 9/11 widows appointed by the meda to become our Goddesses.
Then it’s your complaing that is the ragging.
AJ I wish you would stop accusing Hard Core Conservatives as tarnishing conservatism.
I think it is you and Terrye and others who are weakening our cause.
You folks want to make compromise the rule, I believe a true conservative sees it as the exception.
Comprimise by its very nature a failure.
Both sides have agreed by virtue of not getting what they want. They will come to some sort of accomodation.
Well Right and wrong exist.
The problem I see with so called moderates is they will rarely fight for want they believe is right to the end.
Conservatives will
Liberals will.
Moderates say let’s make a deal.
Balance is the key to life, in politics it leads to stagnation and collapse.
“those of us who despise Anne’s cruelty ‘closet liberals’ is just giving liberalism a huge positive?”
WOW, WHAT AN EGO, so being considered to be closet liberal is a huge positive for liberism?
I fear that it is the closet liberal, who does not understand that the closet is the Water Closet (or crapper) and that he is about to be flushed away with all the other crap into the cesspool. Just how that would be a huge positive is not quite clear.
Thanks, SallyV — I didn’t read the “Do As I Say” book, just excerpts, but I agree it made a great point in grand style. And, I hear you, about this crazy food-fight among our own. It’s painful.
We seem, too often, to be assuming the worst possible motives of any perceived adversary. That’s pretty much what the far-left has been doing (what else is Bush Derangement Syndrome when you get right down to it?), and the far-left is now little more than a caricature.
For my own peace of mind, I think I’ll slip a few “God, Please, give us all back our senses of humor” pleas in between the Our Fathers and Hail Marys. You think? And maybe I’ll toss in a “P.S. That’s only for us on the Right, Lord.”
No sense in giving the left an even playing field. 🙂
These attacks on Coulter are a bunch of crap!…
Standing on their husbands graves to raise themselves up high enough to have their voices heard and then they agitate for the defeat…
Do you think any of those voters read this site. I know you want to imply that anyone that disagrees with you is in this 449,895
No, you THINK you know that. There are many people that disagree with me on many things that I don’t put in that (roughly) half-million.
but I think I is far more likely that they are reading much more conservative(and that doesn’t take much) sites than this one.
Goody. And I hope find lots more to occupy their time. In my opinion, they give conservatism a bad name. They think they are “conservative” but I find them borderline fascist. I am torn. These people would have the old definition of conservatism meaning resistance to change and strict adherance to dogma. I am of the new definition of conservative (which is actually the ancient definition of liberal) in that I am for greater personal freedom, less interference by government into people’s lives, and knowing the difference between a safety net and a hammock.
You may be more far out than they are
Huh? I don’t think so. Take a look at some national polls sometime. Want to know who is the number one Republican candidate in just about every poll against a Democrat in a mock presidential election? Rudy. Rudy beats Romney or Gingrich by nearly 20 points in some polls. Here is a look at some Republican primary polls for 2008 and then here are some 2008 general election polls and you tell me who is further “out there”.
Quite possibly. I had made a long response to FE but when I hit submit it disappeared. Bottom line to my comment was to look at this polling data for the Republican primary and this general election data and tell me who is further “out there”.
Rudy beats the pants off of Gingrich or Romney by 20 points just among Republicans.
I also agree with you AJ in that what Bush is doing is very smart and not appreciated by a large number of the public. He knows he is not running for election. People keep throwing poll numbers up there as if they mean something to him. I am sure he has the volume on the “poll” knob turned to about zero on the scale. He isn’t interested in polls right now, he is doing what is right, even if it isn’t popular. For that I thank him from the bottom of my heart. I was born after Truman but if every there was a Harry Truman in my time, Bush is it.
Well, that’s two posts I left that have disappeared. Testing
Ann Coulter- The truth behind the sarcasm…
She is testy, harsh and unapologetic. She is the uncontested queen of invective and vitriol. And she is likely the focal point of a hatred that is unparalleled by the left… a point which she is really unconcerned with.
Her c…
Quite possibly. For several reasons. Firstly, they play into the stereotype of what they would like to present as the prototypical conservative. They scare people as much as the far left weirdos do. Secondly, they cause the party as a whole to be dragged further to the right than I even think most of the party wants to go. Looking at polling data (yeah, I know it is way early), Rudy, for example, beats Gingrich and Romney both by over 20 points among Republicans for the party nomination. Rudy also beats any Democratic candidate he faces in a general election poll scenario. He beats Hillary by 9 points and has the best showing of any Republican candidate.
What the people on the far right don’t understand is compromise. Putting up the “correct” candidate does you no good if he is a guaranteed loser. Sometimes one must bend a little. I am not interested in dogma. I am interested in liberty. Government doesn’t need to stick its nose in my personal business. In that respect the far left and far right are scary to me because they both would have government dictating my choices to me. I expect a government that knows the difference between a safety net and a hammock. I expect a strong defense.
As for the Pat Buchanan Republicans, I hope you do find more “conservative” sites than this one … I hope you find lots more. Really, I do. Honestly. Please. That group got 0.4% of the popular vote in 2000. We need Pat to run every year as far as I am concerned. It will keep those people busy.
Poll data:
2008 General Election
2008 Republican Primary
Poll data:
Check the links for General Election and Republican nomination. When I post those links here by post gets trashed and doesn’t show up on the site. My guess is because of a # in one of the links.
Maybe it just goes to show that there is a wider spectrum of thought within our party and that we debate issues in a lively manner. If we all agreed it might be a bad sign. I just wish we could disagree in a more mature manner.
“AJ I wish you would stop accusing Hard Core Conservatives as tarnishing conservatism.”
Truth is that “hard core” anything is probably tarnishing. The most successful people in history have been people who knew how and when to compromise. To be a successful warrior, one must know how to retreat to their best advantage.
Comment I read somewhere else in the context of Zarqawi’s death:
AJ:
How do you reconcile “I have no problem with anyone speaking in this country – it is their right” with “Anne Coulter Needs To Keep Quiet.”?
Ann has zero tolerance for liberal hypocrisy. The Jersey Girls are rank hypocrites to blame Bush for 9/11 when their hero, Bill Clinton, did next to nothing to fight terrorism.
Ann Coulter, Marketing Genius…
Ann Coulter is going to sell a lot of books.
She does this every time. Liberals hate her, some conservatives do to, but the rest of us appreciate her edgy commentary and controversial remarks for what they are: press-generating, book marketing plans….