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Blonde Ambition
Ann Coulter is not one to tolerate mob rule.
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering
America
By Anne Coulter
Crown Forum, 368 pages, $28.99
Ann Coulter has a gift for exasperating even the people who agree with her, but she is also an underrated public intellectual and one of the few pundits whose collected work rewards close scrutiny. Among the book-length broadsides for which she is known, none is more enlightening than this year’s Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, which was released in June by Crown Forum, a subsidiary of Random House, Inc.
This time around, a recounting of the savageries wrought by the French Revolution becomes the centerpiece of a sustained attack on the mob mentality that Coulter asserts is always and everywhere the lifeblood of progressive politics. Coulter has had it with people who lump the French Revolution with the more civilized American Revolution simply because both upheavals happened within a generation of each other. “In the American Revolution,” she points out, “fewer than 10,000 died in battle and another 10,000 died of disease or exposure during the war. And our king was fighting back!” In the French Revolution, she can’t help but note, “France’s king capitulated immediately, but the revolutionaries proceeded to liquidate more than half a million of their fellow citizens anyway, in what the revolutionary leaders themselves called the ‘Terror.’ “
Comes then the inspiration for writing a historical survey that might also function as a primer for the next election: “How did the nation of Voltaire, Descartes, Pascal, and Moliere transform itself into a bloody saturnalia overnight? This is a question liberals don’t want us to think about,” Coulter writes. That, of course, is reason enough to think about it, with “think” being the operative word, because it is mob leaders who traffic in images rather than ideas.
Case in point: If the anonymous folk who contribute hit pieces to the Los Angeles Times arts blog, “Culture Monster,” had read Coulter’s latest book, they might not have been as quick to join a hyperventilating colleague on the right coast in painting Michele Bachmann as a legislator who pines for the so-called “Dark Ages.” Were mainstream journalists conversant with history, hacks on both coasts might also have recognized the scurrilous pedigree and libelous nature of “Dark Ages” as an impressively-visual-but-empty-headed label for the Early Middle Ages.
Our revolution was essentially conservative, Coulter observes, whereas Robespierre and his Jacobins set a benchmark for nihilism that would later inspire the Communists, the Nazis, the Viet Cong, the Khmer Rouge, and, yes, the Democrats. (When Coulter has her dander up, expressions like “oh no, she didn’t!” tend to be leached of whatever surprise they imply for less controversial people.)
Her muse du jour is Gustave Le Bon, whose 1896 book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, apparently rivals Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer for prophetic takes on what would come down the pike.
Demonic has an off-putting title, but it ought to be perused by conservatives, simply because it sets the record straight on so much that passes for conventional wisdom these days. Reading Coulter is like accompanying Annie Oakley to a shooting gallery:
• Afraid — like Michael Crowley of Time magazine and other press release rewrite specialists who’ve never heard the Austrian critique of Keynesian economics — because the Tea Party movement “treats longtime political verities as hokum”? (That’s Crowley’s phrase) Ping! Coulter contrasts imaginary violence from the right with actual violence from the left.
• Think of Bastille Day as little more than the French version of the Fourth of July? Ping! Coulter revisits 18th-century history in a way that will raise hairs on the back of your neck, while doing more to rehabilitate the reputation of the unjustly-maligned Marie Antoinette than any other popular author.
• Confused about which American political party nurtured the Ku Klux Klan and which did not? Ping! Coulter settles that question, too, and not just with her trademark zingers — although they’re pretty good (“These days,’civil rights’ is nothing but a cat’s-paw for the mob’s left-wing social policies, such as abortion.… Back when civil rights meant rights for blacks, Democrats were standing in the schoolhouse door.”)
No other writer working today has the temerity to claim that the tragic shooting of four students at Kent State University in Ohio nevertheless had the salutary effect of ending the student riots of that era. Very few are bold enough to suggest, as Coulter does, that Martin Luther King, Jr. was not the best of civil rights leaders. Coulter questions the timing of King’s famous march on Birmingham, which was staged over the objections of others in the civil rights movement after the citizens of Alabama had already voted its racist Commissioner of Public Safety out of office.
In her reckoning, Thurgood Marshall must be ranked ahead of MLK because he had a more positive impact on American society. There are people who will hate this book for that contention alone, but Coulter’s blonde ambition is made of sterner stuff. Just to keep the ox-goring equitable, she also jabs Thomas Jefferson as unquestionably the “flakiest” of the Founding Fathers, and a man whose signature work was immeasurably helped by the take-no-prisoners editing of the other luminaries who helped to draft the Declaration of Independence.
The weaknesses of Demonic are real but not fatal, and they seem to be a consequence of Coulter’s failure to avert her gaze even when it would have been advisable. Coulter spares nothing in her survey of the depravities associated with the French Revolution. Closer to our own time, a chapter on why it was wrong to vacate guilty verdicts thirteen years after five New York teenagers were convicted of raping a woman in Central Park reads like a stomach-churning paper on the politics of jailhouse confession. While the episode can indeed be seen as an example of the left’s disdain for the rule of law, reading about it made me wonder whether Coulter would have done better to lean on something less despicable.
In a lighter vein, I’m glad that Coulter’s forays into theology were short and defensible if not sweet. (You want sweet nonfiction, you read someone else — All Creatures Great and Small is still in print.)
Yet “too analytical for her own good” is not the same as “heartless,” which is why I question Coulter’s judgment but applaud her motives, whether they include selling books, saving America, making good on her contract, or some combination of all three. In pioneering the genre of popular history-as-diatribe, defending the Christian foundations of the American founding, and voicing the kinds of opinions that the most genteel of progressives are sure to dismiss with a “bless her heart,” Coulter has again put her fierce intelligence to good use. This is not the kind of book you want to be seen reading on a subway or in a lunch room, but it is an act of public service, and in spite of its occasional hyperbole, it’s sure to outlive others of its type.
About the Author
Patrick O’Hannigan is a writer in North Carolina.
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Larry| 9.19.11 @ 6:30AM
A great, great book. It might be Ann's best yet and that takes in a lot of territors. I read it the week that it came out and am looking forward to shortly doing so again.
Highly recommended.
Alan Brooks| 9.19.11 @ 5:53PM
Coulter is very smart, but she is a bad writer: far too verbose; she is as bibulous as Churchill without Churchill's unique talents.
Derbyshire is my favorite conservative writer because he not only has a grasp of science but has written a book on math- perhaps more than one. Derbyshire ought to be editor of NR, not merely a conservative writer and radio host.
However there is little justice in the world.
Cosmo| 9.20.11 @ 2:47AM
Ann Coulter is a national treasure.
mzk1| 9.23.11 @ 3:33AM
Strange. Not only do I like Coulter's stuff, but so does my wife, although she is rather left-wing in her politics and discerning in her literary taste.
Vern Crisler | 9.20.11 @ 12:07AM
I'm looking forward to reading it. However, I think she is wrong in condemning the whole of the French Revolution. In fact, historians distinguish between two phases, the first part before the killing of the king and queen, and the part that followed that disgusting act.
The first part of the French revolution was when it was most like the American revolution. I think Ann is adopting Burke's tenditious critique -- which was directed against the first part of the French revolution. Despite what Burke said, the French revolution only really started going with the killing of the king and queen; that's when most of the violence and terrorism and silliness took place, and thus I would agree with her critique if it were directly only against the latter part.
We conservatives cannot be like Burke -- a conservative of the status quo, of class, of stultifying tradition -- but conservatives in the sense of the American founding fathers -- dedicated to libery and equality, as also was our belated founding father, Abraham Lincoln.
Vern Crisler | 9.20.11 @ 12:08AM
"started really going bad with the killing"
Larry| 9.19.11 @ 6:31AM
Oops, territors should be territory.
Brian Mc| 9.19.11 @ 6:56AM
The left hates Ann with a passion bordering on obsession. All the more reason to love her! She is a hero to my simple way of thinking. A true patriot who knocks 'em down quicker than they can construct. She brings a point to its inevitable conclusion faster than a mere mortal should have a right to, and with an amusing flare that leaves libs speechless in her wake. Keep it up, Ann!
oldfart| 9.19.11 @ 7:54AM
The left hates anyone who dares to stray from the fold of how they believe people should behave - especially women. If a woman dares to do anything other than wave their bras in the air, march for abortion, gay marriage, punch through the glass ceiling etc, (for instance Palin and Bachmann who want to hold their own views) then they are attacked like the puritan’s burning witches at the stake. And when it comes to men, if Bill Clinton had been a Republican then NOW would have had 24/7 demonstrations in Lafayette park until he was driving from office. Today being a liberal/progressive requires one to be a hypocrite.
Alan Brooks| 9.19.11 @ 7:40PM
"Palin and Bachmann"
If the GOP gets Palin and Bachmann to run on the same ticket, then I will vote for them. But America is too bloodthirsty to allow women positions that high. I don't think you can arrange it.
Alan Brooks| 9.19.11 @ 8:41PM
... if Palin and Bachmann ran on the same ticket, a Christian psycho would assassinate one or both of them, shouting:
"Thou Shalt Not Usurp The Authority Of A Man!"
If Hinckley could get to Reagan, think of what might happen.
Pelligrino| 9.19.11 @ 12:15PM
I appreciate very much that Ms. Coulter has the strength of character, smarts, wit, and plain back-bone of courage to court invites, accept them, and then follow through with college campus visits, talks, and Q & A.
For some truly bizarre reasons we have ceeded the university to the perverts (both in thinking and in deed) and twisted minds, i.e. the modern day Ph.D professors and the businessmen masquerading as deans, chancellors, or some other fancy titles.
Ms. Coulter goes into the breach.
She seems to relish it. Bully for her.
I love several chapters in her previous book where she lambasts the notion that we -- as society -- are somehow unkind and immoral for not aiding and underwriting the lives of single mothers. (If you have not read this, you should.) She trashes the notion of single mothers as the paragons of our time.
We need 50,000 more like Ms. Coulter.
Stuart Koehl| 9.19.11 @ 6:59AM
The French Revolution was bad enough without hyperbole. The total number killed in the Reign of Terror (which only lasted from September 1793 to July 1794) was no more than 40,000. If you decide to include the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, then the number climbs to something in excess of 2 million people over a period of 23 years (1792-1815).
potkas7| 9.19.11 @ 7:31AM
You might also throw in the Paris Commune. established in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and possible precursor of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 7:42AM
Coulter's book is, as usual, carefully sourced.
What's your source? And should we add 19th century French history to the list of things that you're an expert on, like Russian history and literature, as well as theology?
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 9:52AM
Do you disagree with Mr. Koehl's numbers? His comments are more interesting and informative than your daily repartee with Clint.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 10:05AM
Yes, I disagree.
Talk to Stu long enough and you'll find that he's a self-proclaimed expert on everything. Combined with the fact that he's often wrong (especially on religious issue), then I'm inclined to accept Coulter's fact-checked publication over Stu's "ex cathedra" pronouncements.
Regarding my "daily repartee" with Clint, 2 things:
1. Says who?, and...
2. Where IS Clint, today...?
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 10:34AM
Don't get me wrong, Doc, your repartee with Clint is funny, but it is getting old. I don't know Clint's whereabouts. Post something about the tea party or Israel and he will pop up.
I have read some of Stuart's articles, and they are well written. As for theology and religion, is there a right or wrong? It seems mostly opinion based on history, there is disagreement on the opinions one can draw from history. And there is also dispute about historical facts. I hope you are not another intolerant "Margie" when it comes to religion.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 10:42AM
Leave me out of your comments & go about your own business.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 10:51AM
In your own words, Clint-wit, get bent.
You and your comments about Ron Paul have become a running joke on this board, and if we want to laugh at them AND mention your name, too...we will.
Don't like it? Tough.
Again, in your own words "Wadda' ya' gonna' do about it, tough guy?"
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 11:02AM
Still Hidin' In Joisey, Dr.Reich.
Pussy.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 11:13AM
Still faking your Tea Party membership, dummy?
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 12:36PM
You're A Serial Liar Dr.Reich.
Aaaaand An Anti-Catholic Asshole.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 10:53AM
I didn't say his articles weren't "well written".
And YES, regarding theology, there IS a right and wrong. Otherwise, it's not theology, it's a self-help philosophy.
And "intolerant" depends on your definition, I suppose...
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 11:07AM
Uh Oh !
Here Comes The Self- Styled Reformed Whore, Dr.Reich & His Anti-Catholic Tipped Theology Fixations.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 11:14AM
Uh Oh!
Here comes Clint, the dumbest man on the board.
Go ahead, Clint...Make my day!
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 12:38PM
No.
loulou| 9.19.11 @ 1:01PM
Clint, you're taking your meds, aren't y0u? You're more fun when you're off your meds.
Go ahead, let 'er rip!!
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 1:29PM
Take Two Gelilte Fish And Call Dr.Reich In The Morning, little loulou.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 1:55PM
Nice thinly-veiled anti-Semitic remark, Clint (the Ron Paul supporter)!
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 3:06PM
Uh Oh !
Dr.Reich attempts to play The Anti-Semite Card again,on Tea Party Clint.
I've eaten more gefilte fish than you ever will, Dr.Reich.
My Jewish buddies don't have an Israel Firster Litmus Test for our friendship, PropagandaBoy, Dr.Reich.
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 4:06PM
I dunno---he's pretty good on war stuff. (Stu)
On the other hand, Doctor, you're pretty awesome on most things.
Turning to C(lint) Elegans, the self fertilizing hermaphroditic 302 neuroned roundworm:
Clint, you have no Jewish buddies. You lie on that as on most things. The times you've tried some Yiddishkeit knowledge, you've screwed it up. Aaaand, if you're so called non-existent Jewish friends knew that you referred to them as "Sand Monkeys," you'd get the crap kicked out of you. So, they either, "A" don't exist, or "B" they are no cousins of mine.
I, myself, dislike my daily repartee with Clint; it's just impossible to not do, like a cavity must be explored by one's tongue.
Hey, let's talk about something interesting and intellectual and wash the Clint filth away---apparently, the Europeans are talking about the US Treasury bailing them out a'la the TARP writ large. Stu, anything about that on the Security Front? Comments from the rest?
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 1:54PM
Scared?
LOL!
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 3:08PM
Still Hiding In Joisey, Dr.Reich.
You're Scared Of The Tea Party & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Presidential Candidate Dr.Ron Paul.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 3:27PM
Joseph's a Papist, Dr. Right.
He despises Bible believing Christians.
Just quote a few Scriptures and watch him start reeling.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 3:36PM
Look Out !
The Meeting Of The " Anti-Catholics R Us " Is In The Building.
Today's Lecturers Are :
Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie's Topic : "Why Every Other Relgion Sucks, Except My Church Of Margie."
Dr.Reich's Topic: " The Whore Of Babylon."
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 3:40PM
And I didn't even post a single Scripture.. yet!
LOL.
Clint is anti-Christian and is ALWAYS in the building!
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 4:05PM
What's The Matter Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie, Afraid To Tell Protestant Groups What You Think Of Their Religions ?
Hmmmmmmm Bigot ?
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 4:08PM
I'm not afraid of anyone. Nor are you~ you aren't afraid of lying and attacking Bible believing Christians, and I'm not afraid of attacking the liars that attack them.
One of us for the Word of God~ and one is against Him.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 8:09PM
You're The Other American Spectator Resident Religious Bigot, Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 4:16PM
What's a "Protestant"?
Do you even know, Clint?
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 8:08PM
Ask Apocalyptic Crank Lady, Margie.
She Badmouths Protestant Groups ,As WellDr.Reich The Anti-Catholic Punk Bigot.
You're A Lapsed Catholic With A Fixation Ax To Grind Against Catholics.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 4:24PM
Margie
Do you believe in the divinity of Jesus?
Explain again how you don't believe in evolution, and God made woman from Adam's rib.
You are not a Christian.
You are the Mullah of the cult of Margie.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 4:27PM
See what I mean, Dr.?
This guy's a real punk.
Hey, Papist boy~
Explain how it is that you reject the Word of God?
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 5:25PM
Hey, Mullah. I read yesterday in your conversations with RCV that your mother and father are Catholics. Do you call them Papist, do you call the cult members, do you call them liars?
The term is Roman Catholic, not Papist, that went out with your ancestor Oliver Cromwell during the genocide in Ireland. Got that, bigot.
How about an answer, do you believe in the divinity of Jesus? You dodged the question with RCV. What are you afraid of, I don't care what you believe in, answer yes or no.
Your idiocy is not the word of God. And you are not a Christian. A Christian doesn't call people who disagree liars, punks( your favorite word), cowards, blah blah.
Are you here trying to recruit Doc to your cult?
Buzz off, go crawl back under your rock.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 6:32PM
A Christian doesn't call people liars??? Since when?!?!
If you're a liar, you should be called a liar.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 5:11PM
What do YOU believe, Joseph?
And why?
If you believe in Darwinian evolution, then you believe that something CAN come from nothing, and that inanimate, unliving matter can somehow be compelled to organize.
...And that's pretty dumb, BTW. And not at all scientific.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 5:18PM
What kind of doctor are you, did you go to medical school? Everyone knows that evolution is about development and not about the origin of life. Do you understand the difference?
Doc, do you believe in the divinity of Jesus, I do. Margie doesn't. Are you a member of her cult, she is trying to recruit you.
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 6:21PM
BUZZ!
Wrong, Joe! To claim that evolution is simply about the "development" of life as opposed to the origins of life negates the entire theory. If you think real hard, you might be able to understand that.
Otherwise, it's obvious that you don't really know much about Darwinian evolution..do you?
And FYI...Darwin's book was called "On the ORIGIN of Species"...
Lizard Kig| 9.20.11 @ 5:32AM
As a strictly applied scientific theory, biologic evolution (as a body of evidence supporting "common ancestry") , is not "Darwinism", "Evolutionism"or "Creationism". People, including Darwin can speculate on the transition of inanimate to animate, but that is as yet not describable with material evidence, hence it falls outside the bounds of an honest scientific theory. From a scientific perspective, what Darwin added to the modern synthesis of biological evolution is a mechanism for speciation driven by differential reproductive success in response natural selection. Any and all other attributions to the scientific theory of biologic eovlution asserted to be Darwinian, are speculative. The inherent shortcomings of all humans(intellectual and spiritual)incuding you, me, Darwin and Margie should not be brought to bare on scientific theory, which is after all merely a method of inqiury, albeit powerful should its body of evidence be, vast, materially sound and long lived. It has been useful for humanity to refrain from shackling science with the duty of representing the emotional, metaphysical, religious, dogmatic aspects so undeniably a part of our human nature.
Lizard King| 9.20.11 @ 5:39AM
"in response TO natural selection"
Doctor Right| 9.19.11 @ 6:25PM
Ummm...you're a fool, or a liar. Take your pick.
Margie most certainly does believe in the divinity of Christ. So what are you talking about???
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 7:10PM
Ask her Doc.
Did you go to med school?
Did God make Eve from Adam's rib?
mzk1| 9.23.11 @ 3:42AM
Rib? Not in my Bible. "Tzela" also means side, as in Exodus, and so we understand it. To put it another way, it is possible, even in a traditional interpretation to say that Adam descended from others ("dust from the earth") and was given a soul by God - but Eve was cloned.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 7:14PM
Ummm...Doc, read the article by Hal Golebach on Evolution, think it was Friday, about 500 comments, read Margie and RCV and Nick, then get back to me.
Do you believe in the divinity of Jesus. I do.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 8:29PM
Papists are liars. Repent, Joseph the troll.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 9:09PM
What is a papist, Mullah.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 9:10PM
Margie, tell Doc Right that you believe in the divinity of Jesus.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 11:58PM
I don't allow Papists to tell me what to do, nor do I answer them accordingly.
Just to clue you in, pal.
Lizard King| 9.20.11 @ 4:46AM
"Margie" is not religiously intolertant so long as you're a, biblcal literalist, born again Christian, bathed in the blood of HER Lamb, scientifically illiterate, lover of the sinner but hater of the sin, KJV Bible thumpin'..........
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:31PM
That would be THE Lamb of God, sir.
THE Lamb of God. Though I do in fact enjoy knowing that He did indeed shed His blood for me personally, too.
Repent, fool!
Danny Lemieux| 9.19.11 @ 7:54AM
In the Vendee department of France as in others, French peasants, bourgeoisie and nobles resisted the revolution. Casualties in this department alone exceeded 250,000.
RT| 9.19.11 @ 8:07AM
Anne's the best!
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.19.11 @ 8:14AM
This time Coulter's gone too far!! This book is great, because Ann doesn't take any prisoners here, she just drags the Left through the mud, exposing them for what they really are, a violent ugly mob!! She's at the top of my list, as the best writer we've got out there today. She's sharp, funny, and she pretty too (although you can't tell that from her writing, but she is). I can't wait for her next book!!
Derek Leaberry| 9.19.11 @ 8:27AM
As a member of the homosexual lobby group GOProud, it is hard to think of Ann Coulter as any sort of cultural conservative. She is part of the dark side.
albert constantine jr.| 9.19.11 @ 8:37AM
In both the Culture War and the struggle of ideologies, Ann Coulter is a Patton of the right. God bless her.
Who Knows?| 9.19.11 @ 9:02AM
Anne Coulter and Mark Steyn are THE best!
Imagine them married.
Or, one is president and the other VP, legally, but truly working as a partnership, to eviscerate all things liberal 24/7/365 for eight years!
Contrasting this fantasy with reality shows how desperate things actually are.
skip| 9.23.11 @ 10:49AM
'The Five' has replaced Beck on Fox.
My dream five:
Ann Coulter
Mark Steyn
Burt Prelutsky
James Taranto
Ted Nugent
The biting barbs of any one show by this assemblage of wits would forever alter the life of the most delusional liberal. Which, of course, would never be admitted, despite the truth. The entertainment factor would be off the charts riotous.
loulou| 9.19.11 @ 10:05AM
Unfortunately I will not be buying this book. I used to love Ann but she's turned a little odd what with her obsession with the RINO Chris Christie. Didn't she do research on him?
She also dismissed the disturbing information about Obama's citizenship status without applying her vaunted researching skills to the issue. Was she intimidated?
Ann still has her uses but she's not getting any of my money. Mark Steyn, on the other hand, is brilliant and consistant--no wacky infatuations.
MOS was 71331| 9.19.11 @ 10:38AM
You don't have to buy AC's book, loulou. Just borrow it from the library like I did.
I agree AC is overly obsessed with Christie and could have questioned O's citizenship, but give her a break. Nobody can be correct on everything or agree with you (or me) on everything.
For my money, Ann C is right far more often than she's wrong. And even when she's wrong, she's still fun to read.
Dan Hirsch| 9.19.11 @ 12:27PM
And I am not impressed with her touting of Mitt Romney. Who, in my book plays HunstmanLite to John Huntsman's ObamaLite...unless I misunderstand that her expressions are not of support but of her expectations of the outcome.
I fail to see any thing particularly conservative about Mitt Romney. In a general election between Mitt and BHO, every time ANYBODY says anything about ObamaCare, the political opposition will presume Mitt supports Obamacare as he has not refuted Romneycare. Mitt's states' rights argument is a 'nuance' only a Clinton get. Consider how little traction Rick Perry's 'I'd do Gardisil differently' has gotten.
In the general election, every moderate position Romney has ever taken will become the "official Conservative" position from which the MSM will make all measurements. This moves the body politic to the left, NOT the right. What, if in 2008, McCain hadn't clapped his hand over Sarah Palin's mouth, every time she got close to exposing another BHO shortcoming?
At least with a real conservative Presidential candidate, the 'center' becomes way more conservative, by virtue of the 'right' side actually being conservative rather than already centrist.
DTOM
DH
PS- The real problem with moderates is that their position is just the midpoint between the two sides. So, if Pol Pot ran against Joe Stalin, the moderates would have to agree that millions of citizens needed to be exterminated. And if the Democrats put up another candidate to the left of Obama, Obama would become the midpoint and therefore, their position...
It's simple:
No principles=no brain.
It's not that hard...DH
I Survived Arlen Specter| 9.19.11 @ 7:26PM
Dan, I could not have out this better. Thank you. Coulter has become a tool of the GOP establishment.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 9.19.11 @ 7:26PM
Said, not out.
mzk1| 9.23.11 @ 3:43AM
We did ally with Stalin against Hitler, you know.
J.C.Eaton| 9.19.11 @ 11:11AM
I like the shot at Jefferson....he peaked at an early age when he wrote the Dec. After that: America's first limo liberal and a real pain in Washington's ass.
rendite| 9.19.11 @ 12:43PM
Having lived a heap of time in Europe and being a bit of a poltical discourse addict?, nay, hobbyist, I am appreciative of a woman of Ms. Coulter's obvious temerity.
If she were trying to peddle even 12% of what she writes in her books to a European audience, she'd be made a modern day Salem trial victim -- if not literally, then a leper to be forever reviled.
The US cocktail circuit media fueled public discourse landscape is no cakewalk for an Anglo-Saxon white conservative woman either.
She is reviled because "How dare she!" take on Planned Parenthood, NOW, section 8 recipients, black victimhood, liberal tenured professors, La Raza, illegals, muslim victimhood, Gitmo, and the list goes on.
Thank goodness this lady has guts and brains!
Yes, a bit to her detriment, Ann too has become media savvy and she knows how to deploy her 5 and 7 second TV zingers. She knows how to bring flash and bang into a 3 minute TV segment, how to market.
And so she comes across at times as just too pre-packaged.
But -- as long as she doesn't get to big a head (the trap and achilles heel for all of us) -- she'll remain the national treasure she's solidly proven to be over the last decade.
God save and protect dear Ann. She valliantly attacks evil and evil will surely attempt to chip away at her in revenge. So, dear lady, please keep writing, researching, commenting, and revealing over these next decades. And stay safe. We sorely need candid, real world truth telling.
Should Have Impeached| 9.19.11 @ 10:32PM
Yes, God bless Anne. She's free speech on legs, walking proof that (for now) there's still hope for America.
Joe D.| 9.19.11 @ 1:04PM
Well done again Ms. Coulter!!!
Con Chef (NB) | 9.19.11 @ 1:13PM
I've read Ms. Couter's book & also found it excellent. And, as others have pointed out, her touting of Romney is a little bothersome to me. That being said, I ALWAYS read her columns on Townhall every week. And EVERY WEEK, no matter WHAT the topic, the libs FLOOD the thread with their attacks on her & her alone. NEVER the article. Its almost as hilarious as watching dudes like Clint try & debate.
In all seriousness, though, I thought that just by posting an article related to Coulter & her book, the leftards would've swamped Am Spec like they do Townhall every week. Guess I'll have to see what happens here tonight....
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 1:35PM
I like Ann Coulter, Israel Firster PropagandaBoy Con Job.
Con Chef (NB) | 9.19.11 @ 2:11PM
Where did I say you DIDN'T? Can you not read? I said you argue in a style as vaccuous as that of regressives, Ru Paul fellator.
Run along now, before I use your blood for my Purim cookies.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 2:32PM
Why don't you just try to make me run along, Israel Firster Cupcake, Con Job.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:32PM
Do you ever consider that one day God Himself is gonna make you....?
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 4:07PM
Yeah, Clint, just like you she's an Israel Firster.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 8:04PM
Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic, Tool Job Isis all zany crazed because Many of We Tea Party Patriots & Our Tea Party Senator From Kentucky Dr.Rand Paul & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul don't Asskiss Tool Job's Israel Firster Agenda.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 11:05PM
Ann Coulter supports Israel, Clint. Other than Israel, no word in the preceeding sentence had more than 2 syllables. Even you ought to get it.
Try grammar and spell-check sometime, too, Clown.
loulou| 9.19.11 @ 11:27PM
Now we're cooking!
Clint's gone off half-cocked!!
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 11:33PM
Dear Lou-Lou---please review the mating patterns of C. Elegans, and you will see that the problem with Clint stems further than his smallish sized "wedding tackle."
mzk1| 9.23.11 @ 3:45AM
That's right clint, the way to make convincing arguments is to use lots of capital letters.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 1:55PM
Ann went after Dr.Ron Paul over a marriage issue, where again Dr.Ron Paul wanted The Federal Government to stay out of private contracts.
Interviewer: "Who's the leading candidate for the Republicans in 2012?"
Ann Coulter: "I think Ron Paul. The war will be over, and basically I agreed with Ron Paul on everything."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 3:36PM
LOL.
The "interview" Ckint's talking about, where I believe Ann is mockingly endorsing him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 3:46PM
Ann Coulter,
"Anything Ron Paul says, as long as it doesn't have to do with foreign policy, I'm good with it."
The tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 3:50PM
Ann Coulter On Dr. Ron Paul In 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGs5RgKD_-Q
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 3:59PM
As most would also agree with. Generally. But he's also a dope concerning dope, which I'll never agree with.
His Libertarianism's a turn off, it equals so called social liberalism.
Where's the conservative in that?
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 4:08PM
Yes, and on foreign policy Ron sucks. That has been my position too, C. Elegans.
Glad you agree with me, now. About time, Clint.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 4:24PM
O.T.,
Just a point of interest~ Clint posted a link in which the words of Ann "backing Ron Paul" are written on the screen, and it's obviously a pro-Paul vid.
I posted the actual vid of her actually speaking in the interview.
To me, it's hard to tell if she's being sarcastic or serious, but I thought she was rather joking.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 4:25PM
p.s. Thanks for the kind words, below. :^).
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 11:17PM
Margie:
Life is very short, as you know, and most uncertain. I try to make sure that the people I like most know that and know that they are special, whenever possible.
I make sure I tell my children every day how fantastic they are and how blessed I am to have them. Tell my saintly wife of 16 years the same thing. Tell my best friend, a fantastic Physiatrist (rehab specialist) who sees my patients for primary care at the hospital and is just a splendid all around guy (and Army Vet, and Conservative, and, of course, pro-Israel (and Italian)), how blessed I am for his counsel and how blessed my patients are to have him (being a country doc is weary making). I thank my nurses and techs for their excellent care and compassion of my patients.
And then I come here and learn much from you, and Stu, and Ken, and so many others.
For example, I learned from you in particular how to be kind to someone who others despise or ridicule. I mean, I knew it already, but sometimes seeing a beautiful example helps. (Your Winehouse comments were simply superb)
Most of my life, therefore, is a joy. Whatever happens. Margie, G-d Bless.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 12:09AM
Dear O.T.,
Life is indeed short~shorter than we think. Perhaps tonight will be my last day here, or maybe tomorrow. I hope and pray God is merciful when it's my time, and allows me into His Kingdom. I pray that for you, too.
If you liked my comments concerning Amy W., then you would like how I feel about Sinead O'Connor, too. She's another hurting soul that I know God is working on, and needs a lot of prayer.
I posted about her in that article on Evilution. (LOL, Evolution).
Anyway, I was reading the latest info re:Amy W. Her Mom spoke up to the British press over on The Daily Mail. She said that Amy had quit drugs on her own for some time now and was getting healthier. She was giving up the alcohol as well. They found no dope in her system.
Imagine the dummies who want to make this stuff legal. I just don't get it.
God bless you too, always.
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 11:44AM
Occam
Ask you Italian friend, who is probably Roman Catholic, or Papist, if he thinks his religion is a cult,demonic, lie, not Christian, and so forth. Show him your friend's comments to Nick and RCV and others about religion, then get back to us.
Clint| 9.19.11 @ 8:02PM
Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic, Tool Job Isis all zany crazed because Many of We Tea Party Patriots & Our Tea Party Senator From Kentucky Dr.Rand Paul & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul don't Asskiss Tool Job's Israel Firster Agenda.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 8:32PM
Clint,
You believe in fairy tales anyway.
Good luck with that.
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:05PM
What I can't understand is why Clint attacks Occam on being an "Israel firster", then praises "Israel-firsters" like Palin and Coulter. Coulter ripper into Paul in a column a month or so ago.
(He never calls me that, presumably because I would admit it, as I live there.)
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:05PM
OK, for. I can't type.
Philip| 9.19.11 @ 3:33PM
Mr. O'Hannigan, while mostly spot on, misses entirely the point of the Central Park rape case, which is how our free press has become a mob press, with media elites embracing the same sort of demonic advocacy that freed those convicted rapists, without the slightest question or disinterested journalistic skepticism. Indeed, it is the mob press and mob punditry that does exactly as Ann Coulter accuses them of and illustrates so well with the rape case: the mob press frees the guilty and punishes the innocent. If O'Hannigan's stomach churns over that, then perhaps he has ADD or needed an Alka Selzter.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 3:37PM
Ann's my kinda person. Annie, keep gettin' yer guns!
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 4:10PM
As for my views on Ann and politics in general: on about 99% of things, I agree with Margie.
I have some theological disagreements (but greatly respect her views), but no political ones worth mentioning.
And, as people, she and her hubby are aces.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 4:29PM
You respect her view that you should convert to her whatever Bible religion? Are you then going to switch to the Margie religion. You can accept it but to respect it means only you don't want to hurt her feelings.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 4:52PM
Since he actually believes the Old Testament, he's already halfway there, troll.
LOL
And perhaps closer to Salvation than you are, judging from your own hateful posts towards Bible believing Christians.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 5:34PM
You are not a Christian.
You are simply a bigot.
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 7:11PM
So Jews are halfway to salvation according the Mullah.
Margie| 9.19.11 @ 8:30PM
You're a bigot of the worst kind~ it's called a Papist.
Jesus Christ is LORD.
Repent!
Joseph| 9.19.11 @ 9:30PM
Mullah,
I like the name Papist, thanks, I will use it.
Do you believe in the divinity of Jesus as do Christians?
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 12:10AM
Do you believe that God is just? If so, you've been warned.
Joseph a/k/a Proud Papist| 9.20.11 @ 11:55AM
I don't answer questions from a Mullah.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:35PM
I'm not a Mullah, I'm a child of God. It's called Christian.
Now, if you don't like being asked a question by me, then stop asking me yours.
Especially when I've been posting here for a few years now, and it's quite clear what I believe.
Jesus Christ is LORD.
If that isn't good enough for you, oops! Sorry!
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 3:54PM
Ask away, Mullah.
Do you believe in the divinity of Jesus?
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:08PM
Why not? I have no problem with people who think I will go to hell, as long as they don't try to stop me or help me get there. Although if I were Christian, I would be Catholic.
Mazzuchelli| 9.19.11 @ 4:37PM
While many pundits, right and left, like to capture the zeitgeist of a moment, Ann captures the truth. She is controversial because the truth is always painful.
POST American| 9.19.11 @ 10:35PM
-------------------BOTTOM LINE-----------------------
Once again, Rockefellow FAKE OP
'right winger' Ann Coulter is right,
in the wrong way and at the wrong time.
Also we find the cuing of this theme just
as the world is waking up to the reality
of Globalism, USURY and EUGENICS
---to say nothing of the, no doubt, provocatered
London violence ---even more fishy than
those DEPOP 'friendly' , RED China
'positive' 3/11 and 4/11 Fukishima earthquakes.
And we can't remember any smart aleck
references on her part to GE's Jeff I-Melt-down,
OR that other agenda advancing SE Asia
tsunami a few years ago ---on Mao Tse Tung's
Birthday.
We wonder just how much time and space
Coulter devotes to the 'men behind the curtains'
of virtually every mass mob action of the
last two centuries.
Surely, she's been a complete NO SHOW on
our own 4 decades of 'men behind the curtain',
in broad daylight RED China TREASON OP.
She's also said NOTHING of substance about
the ILLEGAL Fed, or its legacy of involvement,
indeed, instigation, of such passing fads as
Bolshevism and Nazism.
"Understand Freemasonry's a religion.
An ABSOLUTE religion of total and unending
revolution, the destruction of all that was,
---ALLL in the service of the 'Great Work'.
-ALAN WATT
--------------In other words, forget the mobs,
keep your eyes on the 'bennie factors' of
'bennie violence'.
In short, Coulter's a 'Daddy's Girl' poisoner,
set out there to confound and misdirect
genuine, sane indignation and outrage
about just what's going on.
------------a Sugar Daddy's Girl'.
----------------DON'T BE DECEIVED-----------------
Dan Mathewson| 9.20.11 @ 6:34PM
And you're flat out a gen-u-WINE wingnut.
Occam's Tool| 9.19.11 @ 11:31PM
Joseph,
Please review the concept of the Righteous Gentile in Judaism. I went to TCU. I see things other than strictly Black and White.
Here's a question: based on their writings, who on this blog could you trust with your kids? Margie is a pretty safe bet, as is Ken, as is Dr. R., RCV, and some others (I am not insulting anyone by leaving them out, except Clint and Jack, who I wouldn't trust with my pets, let alone my kids).
Civilization is what we pass on to the next generation, and is at most 2 generations deep ( parents/grandparents). In 2 generations Germany, for example, has gone from the most aggressive nation in the world to one that is aging and dying off because they hate their own kids.
I trust Margie and the others named to pass decent values on to kids (RCV is a Scoop Jackson type), and that matters more than anything. Margie is not a "Mullah," but an Evangelical Protestant, precise denomination unknown. Please tell me where she believes in "honor killing," marrying little girls off at 9 years of age, keeping little girls illiterate and throwing acid in their faces if they go to school, cutting off teenage girls' noses and ears, etc.
This equivalence of Evangelical Christianity and Radical Islam is moronic. I lived in small town Alabama and went to TCU. Among devout Christians, I was safe. It was only among people who would support Ron Paul and other Islamophiles that I felt endangered. (For example, StormFront is Islamophilic)
So please, lecture me not. I spent 20 years in the Deep South and Kentucky.
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 8:02AM
If you trust Margie to turn your children into bigots then you are a fool. I would trust RCV, I haven't read much of Ken or Dr. Right. I agree with some of Doc' politics . Your friend is not a Christian, she is a bigot, if you can't see it then you are the only one here who can't. I agree with your comment about devout Christians, but she is not a Christian. She insults everybody here, calls everybody a liar,a punk, a coward, except you because you kiss her ass everyday.
I don't have any intention or interest in lecturing you, but if anybody else told you to convert and your are halfway to salvation you would call that anti semitic language.
We aren't talking about honor killings or Islam, so don't change the subject.
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 8:11AM
PS. It's pretty bad that to defend Margie you compare her to a Muslim Jihadist.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:40PM
You are a liar, and a punk.
And apparently, you cannot read, either.
Oh, and you are a coward as well.
You might choose to actually grow up one day and become a man.
I hope you do.
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 3:55PM
Mullah, you are a punkette,a bigot, and not a
Christian. You do not believe in the divinity of Jesus.
Occam's Tool| 9.21.11 @ 12:24PM
Actually, a request to convert is not antisemitic. A desire to murder 5 million Jews is.
I don't kowtow to her on religion. I disagree politely with her views, but respect her.
Geez, Joseph, why am I doing the lecturing on how to disagree without being disagreeable?
By the way, Joseph, I went to TEXAS CHRISTIAN. many of my friends tried at one point to convert me. If you knew anything about true Evangelicals, you would realize that force and humiliation on this is not an option.
If you want to have a pleasant religious conversation with Margie on religious topics, start by not insulting her as a person. Dr Right and I, for example, agree on not much religiously, yet we have never had a cross word. RCV and I disagree a hell of a lot, but we are nice to each other.
On the other hand, when I write something to state that I agree with Clint on an issue, he calls me a douchebag. Not a way to win friends.
But to put it bluntly with Margie: she and I disagree on the nature of Christ rather profoundly. But she has nothing but the best wishes for my health and future happiness and that of my wife, kids, and ethnic/religious group. How this makes her an antisemitic bigot or a hater, I have no clue. I think she is just the opposite. I have a concept of the Righteous Gentile, and she meets those criterion with flying colors. (Does she act in such a way to support the current and future existence of the Jewish people---that is to say, my kids and I?---Very simple. I admit her desire to convert me is on the negative side of this, but her positives are overwhelming. It's like saying that Rogers Hornsby was a poor baseball player because he didn't field fly balls well. (Margie, if you don't know who the Rajah was, ask Victor---a very high compliment intended, indeed.))
She also is capable of having quite polite disagreements with Catholic/Christian gentlemen such as Nick. But if you call her a Mullah, you've earned her rage, and hell hath no fury, etc.
By the way, when you genuinely like someone, it is not asskissing to be nice to them. We have a problem in the West confusing niceness with syncophony.
It may be difficult to tell by my razing of Clint (the boy DOES annoy me), but with the majority of folks I respond to I try to be very kind. For example, I think I'm so, here. I wish you luck, and health, and good things, sir. ( I have deep amusement telling a Christian to turn the other cheek. ;-))
You seem like a decent human, Joseph.
To switch the subject, on the concept of Israel as a border state onto a lawless land: do get on the CIA Factbook website, go through the demographic data (median age and birthrate per woman are where to start) for Western Europe and, say, Saudi, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Yemen, extrapolate the number of military age men in 2030 from the data, note that the Social Welfare system in Western Europe is already starting to crumble, extrapolate the ability to maintain social stability with a declining and aging workforce, consider where they are getting replacement workers from, and consider the effect of this social change on the US relationship with Western Europe.
My apologies for all of the subordinate clauses. Do all that, and then you will see where Margie, Dr. R, Ken, and I are going with our international views, which, coincidentally, RCV doesn't much disagree with. In my humble opinion, that agreement is far more important than theological issues.
And Joseph, you are the one who called her a "Mullah." I pointed out the comparison is lazy and ill informed, sir.
Joseph| 9.21.11 @ 5:30PM
Occam
Thank you for your reply.
On the subject of Israel as a border state?? I don't recall saying anything about that...maybe I'm getting old, or you have me confused with another.
On the subject of Margie, we will agree to disagree. She acts like a Mullah because she believes she is 100% correct on theology, and calls everyone who disagrees a liar, punk, papist. You know nobody is 100% correct. I don't know how you can read her posts to Nick and RCV and others who did not call her Mullah and she called Nick and RCV, punks, liars, blah. Maybe she has seen too many Clint Eastwood movies and thinks Punk is normal speech.
She regularly uses the word Papist as a pejorative to all she suspects as Catholics. Would you like the word N_____. or K____?
Today she is attacking Ken, whom I don't know, but seems like a decent man.
Listen, you like her, she is your friend and you are supportive and loyal. Good qualities for you.
I am not lecturing but from you posts you say you are in the mental health field, then help her. There is no way on God's earth I believe you want your children to talk like her. Please read her comments on the Evolution article by Hal Golebach last Friday. She does not disagree politely with anyone.
But I will continue to respond to her, as you do to Clint, if she continues with her nonsense. We should not humor her bigotry.
I've read some of your stuff. You seem decent and well informed. I agree with most of your politcs, and also wish you the best.
Joseph| 9.21.11 @ 6:33PM
P.S. Occam,
Whenever there is any article here using the word "Catholic" in any fashion, Margie and Doc R are always first to say Catholicism is a lie, contradicts Bible, jokes about priests, Doc loves jokes about rosary beads, and so forth. They always start and seem eager for a fight.
I know it is best to ignore such nonsense but they have never written mean spirited jokes about Jews, Jewish customs, or say that the Jewish religion is false, a lie, and the usual stuff they write about the Catholic religion. How would you react if they substituted the word Jewish for Catholic?
. I know they are obsessed because they claim to be former Catholics, just like self hating Jews that you know.
If I may make a suggestion, why don't you tell both to can it. They are not interested in a respectful dialogue on religion. I'll believe it when I see it.
Sorry for the long winded reply.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 12:16AM
Occam,
Joseph the troll is a Catholic, in other words, he's a Papist. Catholicism isn't Christianity~ and Bible believing Christians reject Catholicism's false teachings.
So, the more they are in love with the Pope, the more they hate Christians.
It's like water and vinegar. They don't mix.
I can quote Scripture all day long to show where I stand~ but to the Papists, I'm not a Christian, because I'm not a Catholic.
Unless I bow to their teachings, I'm a heretic.
Christians follow Jesus. Catholics follow the Pope.
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 8:03AM
Hey Occam, why don't you have your children read this, and all the other comments by Margie and then get back to us
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:37PM
You prove what I said there, every day of your lying existence.
Good Papist, Joseph!
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 2:44PM
p.s.
O.T.
I'm not a Protestant. I'm a Bible believing Christian.
That's another lie of Catholicism that you've been taught.
To the Catholics~ everyone who isn't a Catholic must be a Protestant.
They think that we're "protesting" their "Mother Church", therefore that's what they call anyone who isn't Catholic.
The dumb clucks who choose to call themselves Protestant are only submitting to this nonsense. They don't seem to mind it.
I'm non-denominational. My Bible is my doctrine.
Catholics absolutely can't stand it!!
Joseph| 9.20.11 @ 3:57PM
We have no problem with "Protestant" denominations. Protestant is not a term of derision, apparantly everything is a word of derision to you because all you know is how to insult.
You are not a Christian. You are someone who reads one version of the Bible and created your own cult.
Margie| 9.20.11 @ 11:33PM
Liar.
Every single word you just wrote is a blatant lie.
God will see fit to deal with you accordingly.
Repent, fool!
cowgirl| 9.20.11 @ 8:04AM
Ann Coulter has more cojones than the men presently running this country.
Siegfried X| 9.20.11 @ 10:49AM
It would be interesting to hear what Ann Coulter REALLY thinks. Unfortunately she has chosen to be a shock jock-ette, who speaks for no other reason than to get rich and famous by saying whatever will get attention and provoke people.
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:17PM
I read a wonderful article she wrote on feminist legal theory (very apropos to the current news from Canada) one year out of law school. It was rejected by NR, but she has not changed one bit.
Today's column is highly recommended.
POST American| 9.20.11 @ 11:53PM
----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE--------------------
COULTER's been SILENT on:
-the Globalizatio RED China set up and TREASON OP
-the de facto, Bush initiated, dissolution of
American sovereignty via NAFTA etc.
-the Law of Moses --ABOMINATION--
of psycho-pathic, debt serf generating,
EUGENICS spawning -----USURY
-the gargantuan scandal behind EUGENISTS
controlling our entire capstone medical
establishment ---and the now all but UNDENIABLE
link between the AUTISM
epidemic --and the injection campaigns of
the past decades (CHECK OUT the graphs!)
--the utter outrage of Monsanto's stealth
saturation of our food chain with organ
destroying, cancer generating, inter-generational
sterilizing ----GMO food
--the scandalous, long standing infiltration of
all our churches and political movements
by the agents of capstone FREEMASONRY
and the USURY INTER--national banking
sin--dick--its
AS the RED China TREASON OP rounds
the last bend ---and as FUKISHIMA burns
away ---unnoticed----
"You're run by professionals. You're
mind's been run by professionals.
By psychopaths. It's their system.
A psychopathic system. You're living
in, trying to 'fit' yourself into a
psychopathic system. NOTHING good
or normal can come from it."
-ALAN WATT
(astounding coverage online)
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:18PM
OK, so she isn't crazy.
Patrick O'Hannigan| 9.21.11 @ 11:58PM
I don't understand some of you people. I write a review of a book by Ann Coulter, who sent to some trouble to document the dangers of mob rule, and rather than riff on anything she said or anything I said, you get into fights with each other over who is or is not Christian, and who can or cannot be trusted. The hell?
That's disrespectful to the Spectator brand and to the people who work hard to make this a forum for ideas. Your readersihip is appreciated, but it does not imply that you also have a right to hijack conversations with ad hominem attacks.
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:28PM
I'm not sure you are actually Mr. O'Hannigam, but my problem with the article (not having read the book) is that I don't understand why you thing Coulter should have been mroe delicate. I think her descriptions of the French Revolution (as I saw elsewhere) help make her point. As they say, at some point you hear the screams.
POST American| 9.22.11 @ 1:09AM
----------------BEYOND BOTTOMLESS---------------
YOU are NOT reading carefully.
Of course Coulter makes points.
---BUT, as she covers up the RED China
Globalist TREASON OP --and delivers
smart aleck quips in the face of the greatest
world nuclear disaster of ALLL time
-----------------her ill-timed spiel on mobs
------------------------is cunningly timed
--------------------------to further cover for
-------------------------------GLOBALIST USURY
"--The Rockefellers funded Hitler. Funded
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. They discovered
EUGENICS. They discovered that cancer was
a virus back inthe 1920's. They were behind
the cancer viruses in the polio shots.
They are BEHIND ---EUGENICS.
-----It's GOT TO END."
-ALEX JONES
---------------SO, get off your Rock--F--L--O
rectums and GET REAL.
---------------------------------------------GET IT???
mzk1| 9.22.11 @ 2:26PM
So you are against usury, which properly defined, means taking any interest at all on loans? As a religous Jew, I do have sympathy for the position, as the basic idea is that while interest makes perfect economic sense, the social cost is too high.
Still, this was the old argument between the anti-finance Jacksonians and the Capitalist Whigs / Republicans.
So you are a Democrat?
Gabriel Austin| 9.22.11 @ 4:35PM
On the French Revolution, it is not enough to pull out and play with [unreliable] statistics; one must consider the underlying philosophy. And consider the state of government in the country.
If democracy is to be responsive to the will of the people, you must accept that it will occasionally go off the rails. But it is much of muchness to choose between the mob [the demos] and the government of France at the time, with its unimaginable complexities and bureaucracy, all favoring the aristocracy and the aristocracy of the robe [lawyers].
The mob brushed all this aside. One may be sorry for Marie Antoinette; but one must also be sorry for the many other men and women who were caught up in the revolution. For two centuries the pressure had been building up: heavy taxes, imposed draft, obligatory work, and eventually starvation. There came the point where the mob had nothing to lose.