An Elegy for Two Once-Divine Female Critics

The American Thinker ^ | December 8, 2012 | Robert Oscar Lopez

[FreedomPoster]

As importantly, they acted as if 2010 never happened. Or as if it happened because the GOPe replaced Steele with Priebus, and not because of the TEA Party movement.

[FreedomPoster]

>>I call the GOP the Washington Generals.

I just LOVE that! I am so going to use it.

In fairness, it’s more the GOPe that rates the appellation. We have seen Republicans who have overcome that role, but that have been relative outsiders - Reagan in the 80s and Newt in the 90s are probably the best examples.

How do we get another such to the top?

[jocon307]

“And way too into Doris Day.”

LOL, agreed!

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Camille's thing was how wonderful the Dionysian release of erotic energies in the 1960s was. She was part of that generation and experienced all that first hand. Here she's just reverting to her one big -- or small -- fundamental idea.

For a while, Paglia got a lot of mileage out of attacking the political correctness of the 1990s as a damper on the energies and passions she celebrated. Bill Clinton was also a major gift to her: she could be controversial about her in a way that she wasn't about Bush or Obama. She could also be interestingly ambivalent about Hillary. They allowed her to cut across ideological lines in a provocative and unpredictable way. But without the Clintons -- and having said just about all she can about political correctness -- Camille just hasn't been that interesting.

The comparison to Coulter seems forced. Coulter's writing about Latinos/Hispanics probably provoked Lopez to the point where he couldn't organize an response and couldn't just let it alone, so he rushes into an attack on her at the end of his article on Paglia. Sure, there are similarities between Ann Coulter and Camille Paglia, but they aren't the most revealing thing one could say about either writer.