Posted on 04/20/2011 8:04:35 PM PDT by kristinn
Grover Norquist has recently been trying to drum up a right-wing anti-war “coalition” with Steve Clemons, a director at the indisputably left-wing New America Foundation. According to Norquist, conservatives are growing tired of the war in Afghanistan and want to have a “serious conversation” about abandoning the mission. So today Norquist, Clemons, and Ann Coulter held a panel discussion titled “On the Right: The Afghanistan Conversation.”
Coulter’s standard speech of one-liners was met with bewildered silence from a left-wing audience that clearly came expecting anti-war platitudes. She said she disagreed with the war in Afghanistan, apparently because she felt the U.S. should be spending its time waging more wars for oil and taking military action against Iran instead. The audience wasn’t amused.
The awkwardness continued through the Q&A portion of the event.
“Ahmadinejad won the 2009 elections] fair and square, we have to get over it,” one attendee informed the panel. A Code Pink activist asked Coulter whether she was concerned about “immense profits for corporations” from the wars. Another attendee suggested that Coulter should convince GOP presidential candidates to come out against the war in Afghanistan.
The audience appeared to enjoy Norquist’s speech more than Coulter’s, possibly because he kept decrying the “American occupation of Afghanistan.” He also spent much of his time on the panel insisting that the conservative movement doesn’t have a strong opinion on foreign policy.
“This is now Obama’s war…so everyone on the right is allowed to think for themselves on this issue,” he said. If the president pulled out of Afghanistan, “there may be five op-ed writers who would send him nasty notes,” said Norquist. “There’s no institution [that would oppose it].”
Sadly, Norquist never explained why he and Coulter were the only ones speaking at the conference if there was allegedly so much conservative opposition to Afghanistan. Or why the audience was overwhelmingly liberal. But at least we got to see what his idea of a “serious conversation” on the war looks like.
My post there was more a rebuttal to that poster. I don’t discourage anyone from liking her. She is a right winger. I just know that when she says odd things, it is more than likely to get her ink than from a strong idealism she has. I watched her for a spell on Hannity this week and still find her interesting and entertaining. Ann is Ann after all. The left still despises her. Provocateurs are sometimes fun.
Okay, gotcha. I think after it is all said and done, Ann is an east coast elite first and a conservative second. The elites stick together no matter which party I believe. I may be wrong but that is my take. When I first started listening to her and reading her books I did not see the elite bit there. Maybe it was all along.
I agree, we should withdraw from Afghanistan as well as Iraq — via Teheran.
Glover Norquist is married to a Muslim woman....which would make me question anything he has to say about our fight on terrorism.
You really ought to try Clearasil; I hear it’s great after you get poked in the eye.
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