Is she perhaps thought by the righties to be essentially an entertainer, a late-night stand-up comic? Somebody who’s fun to laugh along with as she gleefully bashes “the others”, but isn’t actually taken seriously by most, who go elsewhere for actual thought? I hope so, anyway.
From the annals of http://www.nicedoggie.net possibly the most virulently right-wing (and popular, with over 2000 hits a day) blog on the net:
Yeah, that sure sounds like a thorough repudiation to me :rolleyes:
Yea, that’s a regular right wing think tank. :rolleyes: About 29 posts posts either talking about how hot she is or about Edward’s hair.
She does the dirty work the conservatives want. She appeals to the basest of the repubs and they need them to succeed. She can not be defended intellectually, but she strikes an emotional response to the haters. She gets paid well to throw as much shit as possible hoping some will stick. She is part of the strategy and is not outside the party at all.
The Republican leadership knows exactly who she is and what she represents, and yet still gets invited to Republican functions, and is regularly invited to represent the Republican position on national television.
If she doesn’t represent the views of the Republican party, they should stop having her speak on their behalf.
I gotta tell you, the only time I ever see her words is on the dope. Other than that, I wouldn’t know she exists.
It seems to me that in the interests of full disclosure, if you have the links of Ann Coulter stepping out of a limo without having put underpants on first, you should be sharing them with us all. :eek:
Or, were you inferring that some whores accomplish the same goal by using one set of lips instead of another? If that was the case, i wholeheartedly agree with you.
Cartooniverse
Oh, I think you’ll be seeing more of this one.
This guy sees himself as a mainstream conservative, and he seems to agree with you.
Also, from his current front page:
I urge everyone – right and left – to take the following actions:
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Never write another blog post about Ann Coulter no matter how outrageous, cruel, or bigoted her language.
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Immediately write the Presidents of Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN demanding that they refuse to schedule Coulter on any show for any reason on their networks.
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Write the editor of Human Events and demand that they drop her column.
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If her column appears in your local newspaper, write a letter to the editor demanding that they drop her column.
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If you see her writings in any on line or print publication, write the editor and demand that they stop carrying her columns.
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Any upcoming forum in which she is scheduled as a speaker or panel participant, write a letter to the organizers and make it clear that the reason you are not attending is due to Coulter’s presence.
The goal is to starve the witch of the attention she craves. I’ll have more on this later today, including an on-line petition we can sign and send to the cable nets and a report on my progress.
Elvis, I think think is the role she plays.
As Mr. Moto noted above, William F. Buckley’s National Review is pretty much the voice of mainstream conservatives, and Coulter’s writing has no place there, nor does any writing like hers. I’ve subscribed to the magazine since the 80s. It is still jarring to see her picture in ads in National Review for conservative gatherings despite her absence from the editorial content. I guess she has some sort of star appeal to people who have the money and the inclination to go to these things. I don’t get it, myself. I think she’s a lousy writer who depends on writing ever more outrageous stuff to maintain any attention at all.
Consider yourself lucky.
FWIW, I would second what Crotalus said. Coulter is basically an entertainer (or insult comic, perhaps) and Buckley is much, much closer to the reality of mainstream conservatism in this country.
Then why do her books sell so well?
What a piece of shit she is. Yet she continues to get lots of time in conservative media, despite how little she represents them. :rolleyes:
In all your posts here, Mr. Moto, its interesting to me that you’ve never expressed an opinion about Coulter saying what she said, even though you’ve made clear you’re not defending her.
Lots of people here not defending her, but defending the conservative infrastructure that provides her with all the support she needs. If you lie down with bitches…
She doesn’t consider herself a comic. She’s an unapologetic right wing pundit and best selling author. She doesn’t tell jokes when she’s booked to speak at schools and talk shows. Read her own bio
I can see where you’d be a little embarrassed publicly that people like Coulter and Limbaugh are pundit’s for your party, but that’s what they are.
You wakes up wit itches! Dass what I’M talkin’ about!
My notion is that they are purchased by hard-core conservatives in the main who agree with much of the overall position she takes but not necessarily everything she says, and especially not the more outrageous comments that she’s become known for recently. I also suspect that the great majority of those who buy her books don’t take them all that seriously.
But even more importantly, the number of people who buy her books is miniscule compared with the overall number of conservatives out there. I don’t think her book sales are an accurate indicator of her influence or acceptance among the conservative population as a whole.
And on preview, Caridwen, when I spoke of Coulter as an insult comic, I referring to how I believe many of those who watch/listen to her perceive her, not necessarily how she would describe herself.
And considering how often she has to explain her outrages with “it was a joke”, I’d say her self-described status as a pundit and not a comic is, well, laughable.
Has Coulter gotten more nutty over the years? I remember when I first saw her, maybe 10 years ago or so, she seemed a lot more libertarian in her beliefs, but now she’s practically a card-carrying member of the Religious Right. I used to find that I agreed with a lot of her positions, even if I didn’t like her delivery, but now I find very little of her political positions that make any sense at all.
I’m calling BS on this one too. CPAC is a gathering of conservative activists. It isn’t a meeting sanctioned by the RNC or any other official Republican committee.
There is overlap between the two in terms of membership, sure, but the distinction is important.
If someone made an outlandish comment at, say, an ACLU convention, it wouldn’t be fair for me to use that to brand Democrats in general, would it?
I also made clear that I was outraged by it, and that I wasn’t pleased that she was present at the convention in the first place. You either missed that or didn’t really want to see it.
I really don’t know what more you want from me.