Posted on 11/07/2004 12:04:29 AM PST by churchillbuff
IBD's website summarizes Coulter's Monday column as follows: "By not commenting on hot button issues, Bush made the election closer, says Ann Coulter."
I read the column on the newsstand today (it's not reprinted online). Coulter says gay marriage and partial birth abortion are wildly UNpopular - with people far beyond the evangelical and catholic communities - yet, she says, Rove had Bush keep basically mum on these issues. She takes direct aim at Rove for bungling this matter. Had the social issues been truly front and center in the Bush campaign - had Bush talked about them again and again - Coulter claims the election wouldn't have been close, but a blowout for Bush, and the polls would have had Bush running away with it weeks ago.
Republican bigwigs are scared of the convictions of their party faithful, she implies - even though those convictions are highly popular with the people at large.
GET IBD AND READ THE COLUMN FOR YOURSELF. IT'S FOOD FOR THOUGHT, WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH IT OR NOT.
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Ann has presided over how many suceessful runs for office..Hmmmm??
What is this desperate, all most hysterical, need for certain people on the right to attack Rove. WE WON. OK? Let's worry about GOVERNING for a while instead of pursuing these petty personal vendettas.
Can't find the article from your link ??
As much as I hate to say it, I'm gonna have to disagree with Ms. Coulter on this one.
Courts are going to have a tough time upholding the bans.
She sure is pretty though....
Ann is right but we live in a world where the truth is the last thing you will ever hear from most people.
Rove is a smart guy but smart guys can make lots of mistakes just as John Sears did with Reagan (up to the point when Reagan fired him in February of 1980). Ann is right about this. When Bush got politically correct with his statements in support of civil unions of faggots he lost votes and demoralized many of his folks. Is it worth standing in line for two and half hours to vote for faggot lib?
If you scroll down, you'll see IBD's summary of the column, as I put in quotes. They don't reprint the column itself; you'll have to pick up Monday's issue on the newsstand to read it in full. (They have Monday's for sale over the weekend, that's how I saw it.)
Because they just hate the fact that a guy who looks like a timid Elmer Fudd kicks their butts.
Just go to her website. It's her weekly column. The last third or so is about Rove.
It's kind like the fans that were biatching about the Red Sox pitching prospects next year on WEEI the day after they won the World Series.....
Ann is right about one thing. This election should have been an incredible blow-out, far greater than it was, given the circumstances. It's a joke that Kerry was in this thing, and that he ended up so close to 270 electoral votes.
Ann is right. Don't lionize Rove He's a jackass. He is not conservative. He can't be trusted. If you want to give him credit for anything, it should be for knocking Bush from 60% to 51%
Will do.
me, too
Yeah, I think Karl Rove's strategy is brilliant if you consider the big picture.
Bush has maximized his moral values vote not by paying lip service to the issues but by standing up for them. People didn't need to HEAR Bush talk about these issues, they KNEW where stands anyway.
That's why people who placed these issues at the top voted overwhelmingly for him.
I trust Karl Rove much more with running a campaign than Ann Coulter.
I think if Bush made moral issues like abortion, even just partial birth, and gay marriage he would've opened himself up big to the press.
That's the strategy Alan Keyes pursued in Illinois. Keyes always talked about moral issues and he got his ass handed to him 71/28 IIRC. 40% of Republicans voted for the Democrat because Keyes was so divisive about these issues.
Coulter was smoking something when she wrote that one or she is being taken out of context. I dont know which one, but she's WRONG.
Butt pirates believe in monogamy like like Michael Moore believes in dieting.
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