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First his attacks a month or so ago on those pesky Christian conservatives who object to the Republicans taking all that lovely gay activist campaign cash just because of their "religious intolerance"---now he takes Ann to task for taking the "McCarthyism" myth to task, something he and Peter Collier also did about fifteen years ago in a book (Destructive Generation) that made much less of a splash than Ann's is making now. Horowitz actually managed to smear Ann in his latest article as indulging in rhetoric similar to the communists, equating her use of the term "functionally treasonous" with the communist chestnut "objectively fascist."

Maybe Dave's returning to his Red roots. Or maybe he just wants to please all his rich Left Coast neocon friends that help keep him living la belle vie in Malibu.

Ditto. I've been a Horowitz fan for a long time. But lately, he seems to be going back to his roots. I wonder what's up with him?

Maybe Dave's returning to his Red roots. Or maybe he just wants to please all his rich Left Coast neocon friends that help keep him living la belle vie in Malibu.

Or maybe Horowitz is just being consistent and honest in holding Ann to the same high standards he would hold anyone else to. I love Ann's writings, but she got sloppy with this book, and deserves the critique Horowitz gives her. You think Ronald Reagan, Abe Lincoln, and other conservatives didn't make mistakes in their youth? You think they were never called on the carpet by older conservatives/mentors, to be used as a learning and forming experience? Learning from mistakes is a part of the development process, 'as iron sharpens iron'. Horowitz in the long term has done Ms. Coulter, and conservatism, a favor.

Frankly your cheap smear against Horowitz is disgusting. How childish to slander and trash the man via extreme innuendo just because he says something you disagree with. He's done a tremendous amount of good work for the conservative cause, and his autobiography 'Radical Son' is an incredibly effective tool for winning liberals over to conservatism. Yeah, he's still liberal on a few social conservative issues, but judge the man on the whole of his contributions to conservatism, not a single-issue.

Frankly I am amazed that there are any conservatives left, given how some are always demanding witch trials at the first hint of a dissenting opinion.

This is part of my critique on the Horowitz review from another thread:

But Horowitz and some of the other non-social conservatives are frightened by the religious right, they feel just as threatened by social conservatives as moderate Democrats are feeling about the progressive take over of their party. Horowitz and Goldberg, et alias see a move to the right as a threat to the "big tent" Republicanism. So, an attack on Ann is predictable...."

You aren't the only one, who has had those thoughts. I think you've nailed Horowitz, with his own wordsa; hoisted him on his ancient petard...so to speak.