We still love ya, Ann!
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Posted on 03/05/2007 12:51:58 AM PST by kristinn
It is with growing dismay and frustration that I am watching so many of my friends and acquaintances in the conservative community attack Ann Coulter for her comments pointing out that saying the word 'faggot' can get you sent to a rehabilitation clinic.
That she said it in the context of primping pretty boy Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards has sent conservatives to the fainting couch in an episode of 'why I never!' mass hysteria.
Ann Coulter has walked point for conservatives for almost a decade. She has been assaulted, threatened and stalked. She requires bodyguards for protection. Liberals believe they are justified in physically attacking Ann. I heard one say so at CPAC--not in response to her rehab joke, but because Ann 'insults people.'
Ann has been an early and loyal friend of Free Republic. She is one of the few prominent conservatives who regularly breaks bread with FReepers. Her friendship is now being repayed by FReepers who want her driven out of conservatism.
That so many conservatives want Ann banned from CPAC is a sad indicator of the state of conservatism. It is not Ann Coulter's fault that Republicans lost both houses of Congress. It is not Ann Coulter's fault that President Bush is not popular. Sacrificing Ann Coulter on the altar of political correctness will not win the elections of 2008 nor will it prevent conservatives from being sent to rehab for uttering politically incorrect words and ideas.
After Ann uttered the words that have given so many conservatives the vapors, the line for her booksigning at CPAC was just as long as usual. I know, I was standing in that line. If CPAC attendees were so outraged about Ann's remarks, it was not manifested there. I didn't learn about the controversy until I read about it online later that night.
I spent the next day at CPAC. Ann's remarks were not a hot topic. I know because the only time I heard it talked about was when I brought it up. Those I spoke with about it were not upset.
I do not wish to speak ill of my friends and acquaintances who are dumping on Ann, other than to express my disappointment. I do wish they'd reconsider and stop attacking a friend who has walked point for them. Liberals must be laughing themselves silly as they watch us take out someone they've been wanting to eliminate for years.
We still love ya, Ann!
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
I "ditto" your post.
Well-said, kristinn! Thanks for this outstanding post.
God Bless Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter is an entertainer. Her job is to attract attention to herself - and she's succeeded.
I support Ann too. I think her words just made it so much more easy to see how the Dems can say anything with no outrage, but conservatives certainly can't! Ann does not need to make an appology. Lets first hear one from Bill Maher for saying it was too bad Cheney didn't get killed in the bombing!
To some extent you may be right, but the fact is, nobody out there does a better job of ripping apart liberal arguments than Ann, not even Rush.
Fellow GATOR FAN!
Think about it. We also have the right to EXPRESS that we do not agree.
Ann can say whatever she wants.
I can criticize it.
I posted this once before but I'd like to put it on this thread:
Am I the only one who thinks Ann, in an exquisitely executed statement, revealed the craven hypocrisy of her "conservative" audience, which is preparing to embraced Rudy, who is the crown jewel of the gay lobby?
What if it was Rosie O'Donnell, Keith Olbermann or Janeane Garofalo or Bill Maher saying that his or her only regret about McVeigh was that he didn't drive his truck to Fox News or the White House? Wouldn't you get angry about that?
The thing about Annie is she inspires people to adopt double standards. For her defenders whatever she says is justified by some already existing internal political war. If someone on the other side spoke as she did, they'd condemn her, but for Annie anything goes.
Also, I'm still trying to figure things out between the people who say that her comment was alright because "faggot" didn't necessarily refer to homosexuals and those who say that her comment was okay because "faggot" only refers to homosexuals. Get on the same page, people.
A decade too long, IMO. She's a crude, abrasive provocateur who does what she does for the benefit of her book sales, not for the conservative movement. She does us more harm than good.
Ann has been an early and loyal friend of Free Republic.From a previous thread:
Are we all getting just a little to sensative? It's just a fricken word for heavens sakes! It's just ridiculous. You go Ann! He does act and look light in the loafers anyway!
"Anyone who attacks Ann Coulter is not a conservative. They might say they are but they aren't." Okay, so now the litmus test for a 'true' conservative is that they can't condemn ad hominem attacks? I guess Reagan isn't a conservative because I don't recall him ever sinking to the level of personal attacks.
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