Posted on 07/05/2003 4:28:35 PM PDT by Pokey78
? Not sure I follow you?
Lyndon Johnson was not anti -communist. Lyndon was pro-Johnson. If that meant sending American soldiers into So. Vietnam to prop up the Saigon government until after the 1968 election and his reelection, he would do it. It didn't matter if the enemy was commie or not. "Charlie" was, simply, Lyndon's political enemy. Nothing more. (sigh)
Scoop Jackson is anything but representative of the Democrat party today or even in his own day. He was a maverick in their ranks and in no reasonable sense represented anything in their mainstream. Truman did fight the commies fairly consistently - not great or all out, but about as good as one could expect from a Dem and certainly better than his old Soviet-cuddling boss Franklin Roosevelt. The same goes for Kennedy who did stand up to the commies (cuban missile crisis), one of the few Dem supporters of McCarthy, and was eventually killed by a communist (Oswald) or many communists (Castro's minions), depending on if you take the standard version or the conspiracy fringe version.
LBJ an anti-communist? Not a chance. He fought another faction of communism abroad while doing his best to install his own version here at home. It was called the Great Society.
In other words, Sullivan's attempted rebuttal does nothing more than prove Coulter's rule by citing the few exceptions (some of them genuine exceptions and some anything but).
LOL. Amen.
I find it amazing that so many folks take any of them so seriously. ;-)
Coulters modus operandi is rhetorical extremity...Well, sort of.
But her style was BETTER described HERE:
[Coulter] 'I love to pick fights with liberals'
Electronic Telegraph ^ | 19 July, 2002 | Toby Harnden
Posted on 07/19/2002 4:40 AM PDT by brityank
'I love to pick fights with liberals'
(Filed: 19/07/2002)
Right-wing broadcaster Ann Coulter captured the belligerent mood of America after September 11.
Toby Harnden meets her in enemy territory
Believe what you read about Ann Coulter and you could be forgiven for wanting to skip a lunch date with her. Surf the web and you can take your pick - she is anything from a "Right-wing telebimbo", "America's favourite blonde neo-fascist" or "Ku Klux Coulter" to the "whore of babble on". She is also the "Queen of the Maneaters", a female friend warns me.
Coulter is not difficult to spot as she enters the chic La Goulue restaurant on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. She is rail-thin, wears a skirt so short that it would be better described as a small flannel, and leaves men staring in silent awe. "It's my total slutty look," she confides later.
Loud and proud:
'It's my total slutty look'
says Ann CoulterIt's a good thing I've got a tape recorder, she tells me breezily, because writers who take notes "always step on the punch line and make me sound like a pedestrian idiot".
Coulter is no idiot and few would describe her as pedestrian. With an Ivy League degree from Cornell, she went to law school before joining a corporate practice and working as legal counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Her book High Crimes and Misdemeanours became the definitive conservative case for impeaching President Bill Clinton and her syndicated columns gained a nationwide following.
She has also been a big hit on television since the Clinton scandals broke. Totally fearless, relentlessly combative and unwilling to brook any talk of mushy compromise, Miss Coulter is the ultimate pin-up for the militia crowd.
It all happened by accident, she says, happily. "It really was just God looking down and saying: 'We've got enough lawyers, I'm putting you on TV'."
Now she is sitting pretty at the top of the New York Times bestseller list with her second book, Slander, a devastating diatribe against the Left and all its works - the New York Times in particular.
Coulter's approach is not so much "take no prisoners" as "capture one's opponents, string them up with piano wire, machine-gun them until all movement has ceased and then fire a celebratory volley into the air..."
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Mr. Sullivan:
(I'm hoping you are vain enough to scan what is written about you here.)
Couldn't you have told us one place where Ms. Coulter got it wrong in her book if you are going to be so critical?
You quote some fool who does the same thing (fail to point out any inaccuracies) as if that were evidence that Coulter hasn't done her homework.
Surely you can do better.
ML/NJ
Right because Dumbo Moore is too fat. Otherwise, they are both idiots who make idiotic statements that are unsupportable. Andrew is right. Ann is more attractive than Moore but nonetheless she is nut. She undercuts her own argument when she claims all Dems are traitors and all Dems are anti-American. Was Reagan a traitor during his years as a Dem. Was Jean Kirkpatrick a traitor? Was Strom Thurmond? Hell he was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican and he definitely was a Dem during the McCarthy period.
you know the rules....(sigh)......
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11 posted on 07/04/2003 3:57 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Sullivan's logical premise in that statement is a load of fallacious garbage unto itself. It is also indicative that he is unfamiliar with what Coulter wrote about McCarthy.
To start, Sullivan begins with the premise that McCarthy used the dirty and evil tactics that are popularly associated with his name and that therefore any praise of him is a defense of the indefensible.
The argument only functions if (1) we assume Sullivan's premise about McCarthy to be correct and (2) we assume that Coulter simply praised his name in spite of the tactics that are previously assumed. But as anyone who has actually read the book will tell you, Coulter does NOT simply praise McCarthy and in fact develops an argument as to why many of the assumptions contained in Sullivan's own premise are factually inaccurate.
She said we should invade nations that promote terrorism. She did not use the word 'forcible' when she said that we should convert Muslims to Christianity.
But go ahead and believe what you want to believe.
Was Jim Robinson evil when he was a democrat? Ronald Reagan? I need a delineation point. Have all democrats always been evil? Was there a cut-off point say, January 26, 1983 where any non evil democrats left the party? Please clarify.
...speaking of poorly written and tedious.
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