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Coulter errs in her belief that there is any large number of "independents" to be attracted to anything.

There simply isn't.

As both Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson proved, and then had validated by Richard Nixon four years later, we have no MIDDLE and we have no INDEPENDENTS.

Everybody who is going to vote is a member of a group or class of some sort that's affiliated with one of the two great coalitions called Republicans or Democrats.

You win an election by holding onto your own party's voting base and peeling off a coalition member from the other party, or at least enough of one to make a difference in the final outcome.

Goldwater didn't hold the base ~ the Rockefeller Republicans, and a whole lot of others, simply abandoned him for a variety of reasons. But Johnson didn't rest on his laurels. He promised blacks that they'd get even more civil rights legislation, so they voted for him and got those laws. They never looked back.

Four years later Richard Nixon peeled off the Southern whites. They never looked back either.

Subsequently Ronald Reagan peeled off half the previously All Democrat Catholic voters ~ the half who go to church BTW ~ then later on Perot did the same thing, but not enough to win, but Clinton rode in without the Teamsters, or half the Catholics, and virtually none of the Southern whites.

That brings us to this election. We have 26 million UNEMPLOYED people. They are mostly young. The Obots still imagine the YOUTH are theirs ~ beefing up all their coalition members.

Ann still imagines those Youth are captives of the Democrats. She also imagines those imaginary Independents (or Moderates as they used to be called) will ride to the aid of the Republicans if given one of their own kind as a candidate.

Sorry. That doesn't work. There are no large masses of independents but there are large massives of unemployed young people and they will vote for Newt Gingrich if he appeals to them for help in moving the job killers out of Washington.

That's going to cause some of the Republican Representatives to lose their jobs of course, and maybe a couple of senators, but there are 26 million of these kids ~ far outnumbering any sort of independent vote!

I think he can do it.

I don't think a guy whose second biggest occupation, firing people, is attractive to them in the slightest!