Posted on 03/04/2007 1:18:25 AM PST by XR7
WASHINGTON, March 3 — Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party’s best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here.
The remarks by Ann Coulter, an author who regularly speaks at conservative events, were sharply denounced by the candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona, Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Their statements came after Democrats, gay rights groups and bloggers raised a storm of protest over the remarks.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference before an overflow crowd on Friday, Ms. Coulter said, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”
Mr. Edwards’s aides responded with an e-mail message that attacked Ms. Coulter and urged supporters to donate to Mr. Edwards’s campaign. “John was singled out for a personal attack because the Republican establishment knows he poses the greatest threat to their power,” said his campaign manager, David E. Bonior. “Since they have nothing real to use against him, Coulter’s resorting to the classic right-wing strategy of riling up hate to smear a progressive champion.”
Ms. Coulter, asked for a reaction to the Republican criticism, said in an e-mail message: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”
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RINOS all.
3 wimps.
Ann has a caustic, quick sense of humor. I some times do wish she would use her intelligence in a more consistently beneficial way but she does crave attention it seems. Her words aren't always helpful to the causes and candidates she supports. But she does get the headlines.
Woo hoo!! Go Annie!!
“C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”Ouch!
RINOS all.Ouch!
Tell me, did the NYet Times ever slam Edwards in a headline for the bigoted Christian-bashing his campaign staffers wrote on his blog?
The double standard of this fishwrap stinks.
My thoughts exactly.
How about the part where he is licking his lips over and over? I couldn`t even watch the rest, that enough got me nauseous.
I have a term for what happens when someone says something that the liberals use to try to destroy them.
"Brownshirting."
They want to silence Ann just like those Nazi thugs did on the streets of Germany years ago.
But instead of using a mob like the Nazis did the
liberals use their media and politicians to do the job.
Rush Limbaugh's ESPN comments were a perfect example of coordinated liberal media Bownshirting.
And as much as I don't like him on other issues, Trent Lott's Strom Thurmond comments involved "Brownshirting" that cost him his job.
And the White House followed along, not defending Lott.
Republicans should have no part of this campaign against Ann.
Cowards....hypocrites...
faggot: a small bundle of firewood
Dems are the party of minorities, gays and lesbians. Why is it an insult to refer a candidate as a faggot?
faggot: a small bundle of firewood
Dems are the party of minorities, gays and lesbians. Why is it an insult to refer a candidate as a faggot?
In the words of Gen. Honore, "Don't get stuck on stupid!" Being a Republican has nothing to do with agreement with such a ridiculous remark.
Maybe next year you'd like David Duke to speak at CPAC. He knows how to upset the RINOs too, and that's all you really want, isn't it?
Your point being?
I guess his point being, if you want over the top comments invite David Duke to CPAC.
Already, several Republicans have publicly repudiated Ann and her remarks. If she were a Democrat, the whole party would be rallying to her support.
Cases in point: Kerry and his "botched" joke about the military, Biden and his "clean Black" comment, etc.
On the other hand, the Republicans couldn't run fast enough to throw Trent Lott under the bus after his praise of Strom Thurmond...
And the Republican leadership wonders why it got its Butt kicked back in November...
Thanks for jumping in to answer for someone else.
Comparing Ann Coulter to David Duke is idiotic.
Besides, read post #5 above.
I'm with Jim. Who you with?
"Being a Republican has nothing to do with agreement with such a ridiculous remark."
Nor does it have anything to do with embracing the cultural war that has made using the word faggot a thought crime.
They now do the word with stars for letters in the print media, you may have noticed....f****t. That really seems strange.
Yes. How gay.
They seem to think the Mark Foley strategy will work.
I am sick of the perverts. Ann Coulter would make a better president.
As as matter of fact, David Duke was over in the middle east making uber liberal comments supporting the islam fascists. His commentary would be far more welcome at moveon.org...
...or the National Press Club. And it sounds like you've bought their line about Ann being a fascist who needs to be silenced.
Yup.
The Iraq war not going well is why the Dems won last November.
The Republican candidates seem to be unanimous: Ann needs to go to rehab.
I would never vote for any of these three anyways. All three RINO's who let Democrats dictate to them.
All 3 march in lock step. Do we really want any of them? They are already showing they will cave to lib criticism.
There not saying that.
There just saying, her comments were stupid.
If some Democrat said only anorexics should support Ann.
You would say what a stupid comment.
It seems like everybody is trying to glom onto Ann. Sort of like when they mention Rush's name. Hint that Rush is in a story and the audience shoots way up. The same is true with Ann. Thats because they are both effective. Write about Ann Coulter, or Rush, and your little seldom seen column gets seen and heard.
I guess the Rinos are looking for a little Ann time as well. And who can really blame them. What better way to mollify the bullies of the leftist mob. But it never works. And this is where the Rinos always, eternally, screw up and give justice to the supposed moral indignation to the lefty lynch mob. But its a fake moral indignation. And everybody knows it. Ann calls them on it. And they don't like it. So they enlist the Rinos to join their lynch mob and do their dirty work for them.
But there is a studied radio silence about the daily, no, a thousand times daily, outrages against basic humanity and decency cast over all of society like a pall, unleashed in torrents from the Dems and the left. Gimme a break. They're just trying to deflect attention away from the war-like, (against their own country),radical, indecent, rhetoric, that suppurates regularly from their side. All day, every day.
Is Hugh Hewitt a RINO?
Who is Hugh? Is he running?
Thank God she didn't call Al Gore a fat, snake oil salesman...
Your comment is right on. A comment that makes more sense than I have heard lately.
Yes, well said, Cowboy Bob. And, let me add: ditto!
It's because of statements like this the country remains is in such an idiotic PC culture. What do you think is "helpful" by kow towing to liberal whims by expanding a PC fantasy land of redefining words to aviod hurting people's feelings?!
After all, protecting feelings are more important than labeling something for what it really is...< /holier-than-thou>
What's worse? Rush constantly referring to Edwards as "The Breck Girl" or Coulter's remark? They are both commentators...get over it. Also, I recall the left - Michael Moore, Gore...referring to the "extra chromosome Right wing" and other such invectives.
Edwards is effeminite....the faggots themselves name some of their groups "queer nation" and the like.
call a spade a spade.
Yes, and wouldn't you know it. We now find out Trent Lott was just complimenting Rev Al Sharptons relatives. Haha ...so good
Worse than RINOs are the democrats in YouTube commenting on the video (190,000 viewers) who are masking as republicans and posting suggestions that "'all gays in america should be killed' and 'God Bless Ann Coulter and Bush'" with the purpose of getting readers of the comments to believe that they really are republicans posting that crap which could result in much more violence than Ann Coulter's comment which was directed at the issue of "Bad Word Rehab". Democrats will do anything to win. They will pretend to be republicans cite violence against gays, go into their room and secretly pray that violence will occur just so that they can point their finger at Ann Coulter and say "see what you republicans did?"
They are nasty and need to be Freeped and exposed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9Bi3C4rs8
You sound like Homer Simpson. Speaking is not thinking.
Listening to C-SPAN Morning Journal call-ins. What a smug self righteous PC bunch! "Brownshirting" (referenced earlier on this thread) sums up their attitude:
Un-PC people should be SILENCED!
(Hey, you DU-libs: don't like `faggot'? "Faggie" sounds much more descriptive!)
OBTW, callers say Maher wanting Cheney dead is OK.
It's obvious most C-SPAN callers have WAY too much time on their hands!
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