Posted on 04/26/2014 6:58:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The biggest lesson in Nevada’s Bundy Ranch standoff is how it’s angered conservative America, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said, urging Republicans to channel that passion in the most effective way possible.
“Republicans and conservatives ought to learn, be careful before you choose a mascot,” Coulter said Friday in an interview with CNN’s Bill Weir.
In a comparison sure to anger some of rancher Cliven Bundy’s most vocal supporters, Coulter likened the Nevada cattle battle to the ineffectual Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011, when thousands of unwashed, unemployed and unhappy young people took to the streets to protest not getting milk and cookies before their afternoon nap.
“I never thought this was a great cause,” Coulter said of Bundy’s battle. “I don’t see much difference … between what’s going on at that ranch and Occupy Wall Street.”
The fallout from Bundy’s comments about slavery – which liberals heralded from the moment they broke in The New York Times on Wednesday – helps make Coulter’s point that flash-in-the-pan protests like Bundy’s are diversions from bigger concerns over the direction the country is taking in the age of Obama.
That anger needs to be channeled productively – and that’s something prominent conservatives who should be leading the movement are failing to do, Coulter said.
“There’s a lot to be angry about, and people want to punch back,” Coulter said, listing as boiling points Obamacare and the growing number of states approving gay marriage and legalizing marijuana.
“But what I think is happening is people we look to be leaders to direct that justified anger are instead being followers,” she said.
“Stop following the mob – you’re supposed to direct the mob, who have a legitimate grievance.”
The libs are going to love hearing Coulter call conservative activists “the mob,” but they’d be missing the point, as usual. Her message is that conservatives aren’t just the Occupy movement with better hygiene. A raft of issues with major implications for America’s future are at a tipping point, and turning them in the right direction requires effective political organization – not just foot-stomping or camera-hogging.
That means the conservative movement needs leaders who aren’t getting distracted by another romantic “mascot” who may turn out – rightly or wrongly — to be an embarrassment.
“There is legitimate anger,” she said. “We see these random explosions here and there – where it ought to be directed to something useful and directed at something we can do something about.”
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And nothing more.
Ann is past her sell-by date. Just another drone for the establishment right now, with a Mitch McConnell fetish.
Ann saw Mittens Romney as a “Great Conservative”. ROFLMAO!!!
Ann is a New York idiot.
Huh? I think this exposes a fundamental issue -- the federal government has no business taking over our lands. That is the issue. It has nothing to do with Bundy or any specific personalities. This wrong is happening in Texas and elsewhere.
“Republicans and conservatives ought to learn, be careful before you choose a mascot,” Coulter said
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Yeah. *Looks at the mannish former mascot*
The federal government has no business owning so much land. It’s like the king’s forests of feudal England. How can Coulter not see this as an important issue?
Ann was a long-time friend of FR. This really saddens me.
She writes extremely well, she knows the law, and she’s smart. I’m afraid that all these crazy statements, beginning with her pact with Drudge to nominate Romney by telling repeated lies about the conservative opposition, are not the result of stupidity. Because she still can write well when she wants to.
There must be some sort of payoff, or career opportunity, behind these pieces of RINO nonsense.
Because she already has hers and really DGAS about the rest of us???
She must also see little difference between crap and chocolate ice cream, simply because they’re both brown.
No, what Republicans and Conservatives must learn is to take a stand and stick with it, and do not go wobbly when the heat rises.
Well, as Bundy said, at least he’s producing something the country needs. Can’t say that about OWS.
What a crock !! ...For thousands of years it was a given you had a right to graze animal on public waste land.
Ann’s lost her mojo. It’s too bad.
We really need to kick these a..holes to the curb..they fliped the whole premises of the country on its head..you have to ask the goverment permission to live your life..there it such thing as common public land now..its all the kings private land now you to have permission be on...
Particularly since his slavery remarks we all know that this guy’s gonna lose.Not that he *should* lose but that he *will*.That’s simply because both Dirty Harry (who clearly stands to benefit financially) and Osama Obama are both utterly fearless *and* utterly amoral.
I don't choose mascots. I respond to events that threaten liberty.
Ann Coulter and her ilk are stuck in the old, worn out practice of crafting vain images and bolstering political celebrities.
Shut your stupid yap, Coulter. You no longer speak for us.
Mann doesn’t need the press.
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