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Mugged: Ann Coulter’s Home Run

By on 9.27.12 @ 6:09AM

The liberal myth of race history exploded in latest book.

Ann Coulter is fearless.

In writing her newest book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama Ms. Coulter takes the time to carefully and in detail explode the self-made liberal myth of liberals and liberalism as heroes in the American civil rights movement.

As it happens, we have written on this subject several times in this space, (here, here, here and most recently here) fully aware that the idea of liberals as civil rights heroes is not only a tragedy and a myth but a seriously bad joke. As we often note, any group on record with enthusiastic support for slavery, segregation, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan and, in today’s world, everything from racial quotas to illegal immigration is decidedly no kind of American hero. As we have also frequently noted, racism and the Left go together like ham and eggs or peanut butter and jelly. Without playing the race card the Left would die of political oxygen deprivation.

Ann Coulter gets it. Mugged is not just a book — it’s a public service.

In chapter and verse, Coulter takes the time to detail the Left’s wretched racial history, saying:

Contrary to the to the myth Democrats told about themselves — that they were hairy-chested warriors for equal rights — the entire history of civil rights consists of Republicans battling Democrats to guarantee the constitutional rights of black people.

Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats and there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party….

All true. And Coulter, a lawyer, prosecutes her case with detailed enthusiasm.

There is the basic grounding in the argument that liberals love to ignore.

  • It was Republicans who passed the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery (as Coulter correctly notes “with 80 percent of Democrats voting against it.”)
  • It was Republicans who unanimously “enacted the Fourteenth Amendment, granting freed slaves the rights of citizenship” — with unanimous opposition from Democrats.
  • It was Republicans who passed the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote.

All of these a precursor to passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (providing citizenship and “full and equal benefit of all laws”), the Reconstruction Act of 1867, and … yes… an entire list of civil rights measures in 1875, 1890, 1922, 1935, 1938 (the latter three anti-lynching laws staunchly opposed by Democrats) and anti-poll tax bills in 1942, 1944, and 1946.

Nor does Coulter forget the basic fact that the Civil Rights laws of 1957, 1964 and 1965 were passed because of staunch Republican support — and were essentially do-overs of laws passed a century earlier but essentially stymied by the Democrats’ support for segregation and the use of what historian Columbia University historian Eric Foner has noted as the military arm of the Democrats — the Ku Klux Klan.

But these, as mentioned, are the basics.

What Coulter does that breaks new ground and doubtless more than a few political eggs is tackle headlong the racial controversies of the last several decades — and link them to the atrocious (make that horrifying) on-the-record dependence of Democrats and what is politely called “the race card.”

Noting acerbically and again correctly that “liberals have never been able to get the hang of a color-blind justice system,” she provides one example after another of how liberals went from treating blacks as below the law — to above it.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (226) |

Appleby| 9.27.12 @ 6:48AM

Of course, the Republican party of Lincoln was not the Republican party of today, but it's always good to remind people that history didn't start in 1965.

spike59| 9.27.12 @ 6:57AM

it would be helpful for the Left to quit pretending, regarding civil rights, that it's not STILL 1965...

The Avenger| 9.27.12 @ 7:04AM

They can't do it just as a leopard can't change its spots.

delahaya| 9.27.12 @ 11:13AM

It can be 1965 if they want. As stated, the facts are the GOP pushed through the Civil Right legislation, and the Democrats resisted.

Robert| 9.27.12 @ 5:34PM

...and the Democrat Party of Kennedy is a shadow of the Democrap Party of now.

spike59| 9.28.12 @ 6:38AM

today's Democrat Party is more like the "Fair Play for Cuba" group Oswald belonged to, mixed with the SDS and Black Panthers

The Avenger| 9.27.12 @ 7:03AM

Coulter is absolutely spot on in her analysis. The "party of diversity" is truly a party of exclusivity. They believe in diversity, just not diversity of thought. Anyone who strays from the party line is demonized and marginalized.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:18AM

Hahaha .... 96% of African-Americans, 68% of Hispanics, 60% of Women and 58% of Catholics all disagree with you. Not to mention Asians, Gays, Native Americans and all other non-WASPs...

Ann Coulter did say something right - " If we don't run NJ Gov Chris Krispy Kreme, we'll nominate Romney and we'll lose" ... Everything else out of her mouth or books is vitriolic hate speech just to make money off of foolish people who buy her crap.

Now, she's so supporting Romney? Yeah, she's got principles... NOT.

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 7:45AM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Stephie| 9.27.12 @ 8:11AM

These groups may disagree with us, but they are wrong. They have bought into the left's divide and conquer tactics and nothing more than pawns in the game of the regressive left.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 9:06AM

Nevertheless, they make up the majority - you're ideas are losing big time.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:05AM

Uh-oh. I'm channeling Purp's brain now. I can't help it. I've drawn a bead on not one, but both of his brain cells.

Here's Purp's proposal: Since it's obvious that white people dislike Obama not because he's a lazy, immature, ignorant, bigoted, racist, vengeful, angry, pompous, phony, insufferable, doctrinaire Marxist bent on destroying this country but because he's black, Purp has the ideal liberal solution. It's so simple, it's brilliant.

Purp believes that mere reparations are never going to be enough. Affirmative action isn't going to be enough. Craven solitiousness toward every person who is black isn't going to be enough. Idealizing the Gangsta and thug and prison cultures isn't going to be enough. Attributing all bad behavior on the part of blacks to white racism isn't going to be enough.

There is but one way to make things right: Re-enact slavery. We'll sunset the legislation, though, such that it will only last for 300 years. Of course it will be whites who will now be enslaved to African Americans. You know the liberal credo: Nothing rights a wrong more effectively than commiting the same wrong again!

Now of course this is going to require administrative skill, and Purp knows blacks aren't really up to that (if you get his drift). So he and his cronies will all be exempt from the slavery laws so that they can, uh, oversee the program. But you and me? We'll be under the yoke.

This would finally be social justice.

What could go wrong?

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:43PM

Did you spend all week making this shit up? You are one sore LOSER.

Most whites that don't like Obama are stuck - they're not sure why, and when they listen to Rush or Fox, they are confused. It's hilarious.

Nick| 9.27.12 @ 8:28PM

During the past couple of weeks, Burp has REPEATEDLY blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate. He STUPIDLY believes that an ambassador has more power than the president.

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence and lying.
__________________

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 8:06PM

"Who is in charge of the Embassy in a country? Who decides what is or isn't done in the Embassy?
"It is the Ambassador. He loved Libya, he miscalculated and tragically is dead.
"But, why would a President bother appointing an Ambassador if you're not going to listen to his advice. [...]
"Sadly, we can't ask the Ambassador himself - but that was his job."

__________________

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 10:49PM

"Say it all you want ... Ambassador is the boss. If he wanted more security, he'd have had it. It sure isn't the President's fault. [...] Twist all you want. He was the boss, and he is now dead."

__________________

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

topcat52| 9.29.12 @ 11:23PM

Sorry, I know why I don't want another four years of Obama, and its because the last four were so wonderful. I can't take the fabulous results that he has achieved in foreign policy - the death of Americans on American soil, our better relationship with Muslim countries, the reset with Russia and his upcoming flexibility with Putin. In handling the economy - 40+ months of 8+% unemployment, a reduction in the median household income of about 8%, the doubling of gas prices, banks not lending, increased taxes. And finally, in domestic policy - ACA, dropping the voter repression case against the New Black Panther Party, fast and furious, national security leaks. And I haven't even mentioned doing an end run around the Constitution and the separation of powers to achieve his goals that neither the Congress nor the People would allow for him.

Appleby| 9.27.12 @ 11:48AM

Voltaire said, "If fifty million Frenchmen believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." No matter how many people believe up is down, in is out and left is right, THEY'RE STILL WRONG.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:55AM

Great point.

Too bad the liberal class has already voted that "up is down." And when "up" is eventually proven, in fact, to be "up?" Guess what?

It'll be conservatives' fault. How hateful of us to point out that the sky is above us, not below us.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:43PM

But the President is winning - and MIGHT makes RIGHT. Oh well, have a nice day!

Stephie| 9.27.12 @ 1:18PM

Yeah I guess Purp you give any dumb whore a free telephone you can get them to do anything.

Stan Redmond| 9.27.12 @ 1:59PM

It doesn't make your moron majority right. And yes. People who are supporting the Obama agenda are morons. However they will always blame Bush, the republicans, the Jews, global warming and whatever boogeyman they need to to distract from the fact that it is leftist ideology that leads to destruction and misery. Castro will always be at war with America, Iran will always be at war with th great Satan, North Korea will always be at war with South Korea, and Oceania always been at war with Eurasia. And aren't all those leftist states just wonderful places.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:45PM

It is YOUR attitude that guarantees the President will win.

You and Romney are so smug and self satisfied that you have all the answers and your truth is THE truth, you turn off everyone but people that are in Fantasyland like you are. Everyone is wrong but you guys, is that it? Go with that Sunshine ... and you can salute your new President Nov 6th, Barack Hussein Obama!

Trinacria| 9.27.12 @ 7:19PM

"Nevertheless, they make up the majority - you're ideas are losing big time."

I find appeals to authority and consensus are the most compelling form of rational argument; why, everybody says so...

pogybait| 9.27.12 @ 8:12AM

Your estrogen must be off the charts today Purpy

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 9:07AM

Estrogen? Why how clever of you ... hahaha

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:57AM

I wouldn't throw stones if I were you, Mr. Glass House.

I got news for you: Human nature is color blind, and MLK was right - people should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

But that would destroy the Democrat party.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:46PM

I see no character worth judging on this site. Color has nothing to do with it.
Stupid cannot be fixed, and you exemplify that tenet.

Joellen| 9.27.12 @ 9:11AM

Perp, how many "Black" Americans, Hispanics, women are unemployed under the Liberal/Progressive agenda? As for 58% of Catholics who disagree with us - they are not Catholics - they're CINO's. Any Catholic who votes for Mr. Pro Death/Anti Sacred Marriage, social justice proponent does not know their faith, or in fact has rejected their faith (which one category do you fit in?).

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:47PM

Well, then stay in the loud, crass, stupid minority then... and be happy as a pig in shit... 'cause you are.

Bob Grant| 9.27.12 @ 9:25AM

Perp,

Didn't you read the article on which you commented?

Your "...96% of African Americans..." comment is exactly the point Mr. Lord and Ms. Coulter were trying to make.

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 9:44AM

Purp,
You just proved what Ann Coulter wrote about. You find joy in the fact that minorities are held back, treated like second class citizens and don't know what it feels like to be truly free without the hate they are told they must have against others. You yourself are the same way. You show hatred and ignorance at its highest.
What we conservatives would loike to see is everyone being treated equally. That starts with respecting all. Liberals only respect liberals and even then only liberals that are more liberal than they are. The hood has been pulled from the liberals head. All of us now know what you liberals really are. Scared. Scared of anything and anyone that does not agree with your immoral ways. You libverals are and always have been the racisit and bigots. You deny minorities any opportunity of ever knowing how good America really is. You're so busy whining about the 2% of the rich and living in fear of laws that say you can't do whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want, that you'd drag the whole country into the immoral abyss with you. Well, we ain't buying it anymorePurp. We know what you liberals really are, and the stuff we wipe from the bottom of our shoes has a better smell than any liberal.

Albertus Magnus| 9.27.12 @ 11:09AM

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Purp accusing someone ELSE of "vitriolic hate speech"?!!! What a LAUGH! Purp's arrogance and stupidity know no bounds. And hubris! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:25AM

The liberal mind:

Truth = Hate Speech

Liberal Hate Speech = Truth.

I have to hand it to you assholes who cling to your propaganda and your liberal religion; you've fixed your egos such that, no matter how mendacious, felonious, extortionist, malevolent or destructive your attitudes, in your own single, collective mind it's all sunshine, lollipops and gold stars from your mommy "just for being you."

What did you say you do for a living again, moron? Let me guess: "Activist" or "Professsional OWS layabout."

Come on, be proud of your lack of contribution to humanity - after all, the cookie-cutter dogma you've downloaded for free from Rachel Maddow ought to be all the contribution you need in order to deserve a lifestyle paid for by somebody else's labor.

Norman Conquest| 9.27.12 @ 12:08PM

WASPS? What is this Purp, the 1890's?
Good job of parodying a pompous, stupid,bigoted lib idiot though. It is a parody isn't it?

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 12:34PM

The liberal philosophy: balkanize, balkanize, balkanize, infantilize your penned-in victim groups, keep them feeling helpless and angry at imaginary slights and, most important, keep the affluent, white fools and the perpetual adolescents who visit this petting zoo feeling good about themselves for insisting the zoo be beautifully maintained and its population is kept comfortable.

Explain this to me, Purp: How does your advocating that one group of people you don't know pay money (at the point of a gun) to another group of people you don't know confer virtue on you? Seriously, please explain your moral calculus.

Trick question! you're one of the recipients of the extorted money, so it's not like you don't have skin in the gravy-train game. Still it would seem to a normal person (i.e., one who realizes that "up" is "up" and "down" is "down") that this actually confers a degree of corruption on you - not virtue.

Then again, the truth is perhaps the only commodity you want to make less available to the downtrodden.

Oldefarte| 9.27.12 @ 1:57PM

You and your lying Democrat associates are nothing but hypocrites, and the reasons why would require more time/space than this venue allows!!!!!!!!!

Seek| 9.27.12 @ 2:28PM

Ann Coulter looks like a drug addict. Has anyone else noticed this? I mean aside from the fact that she's a highly dishonest and shallow historian.

Laine| 9.27.12 @ 3:29PM

Libs are always into the looks, have you noticed that? Because they have nothing substantive to say. Coulter has written many well researched books. You describe her voluminous work as "dishonest" with no basis in fact. That's gee....dishonest.

Seek| 9.28.12 @ 4:14PM

I'm not a liberal. I'm just a man with good taste in women. And that extends to ideas. Ann Coulter's new book fails to impress for any number of reasons, not the least of which is her highly selective reading of history. As for my alleged lack of substantive things to say, I'll match my brain with yours anyday, Laine. Insulting people isn't the way to win hearts, minds or much of anything else.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 3:50PM

Stop standing on your head and telling the world it's upside down.

You can't come up with one fact Coulter is lying about.

You can't demonstrate in any way that anything she's ever written is shallow (unless you mistake wit for shallowness, always a possibility among pedantic liberals).

Of course it's subjective, but I think she's actually quite attractive.

Now if you want shallowness and deceit, well, those traits are required to be a Democrat. You can't look at the rubble of America and be proud of your handiwork unless you are a shallow liar.

Speaking of shallow liars, I'm guessing you find Rachel Maddow's generic androgyny attractive.

Von Mises Jr| 9.27.12 @ 7:22AM

Exactly, Avenger. Coulter's last book was "Demonic" that was based on Le Bon's explanation of the French Revolution called "The Crowd," and "The Psychology of Revolution." Liberal's default position is to think like crowds. The leaders advance the party line, and no one objects for fear of what the crowd or its leaders might do to them. It may only be being ostracized, but that is enough to thwart any original thought or bold proclamation.
They are the true sheep.

Pecos Pete| 9.27.12 @ 7:39AM

VMJ: Excellent. For proof read Violet's post above yours. Violet epitomizes stupid group think. And, Violet lists groups that are the sheep being led to slaughter by the democrats.

Jack London| 9.27.12 @ 7:47AM

Who let you out of your bunker, pistol-packing Pecos Pete?

Bob Grant| 9.27.12 @ 9:32AM

Great insight.

Hack, Violet,

Keep posting. All you do is buttress Mr. Lord's and Ms. Coulter's argument.

Albertus Magnus| 9.27.12 @ 11:10AM

Who let you out of your padded cell, London?

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 3:52PM

If construction cones were given keyboards, they'd produce about the quality of drivel that you do.

How do you type without opposable thumbs?

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:52AM

Liberals aren't afraid of you or anything else.

They built this country with you conservatives kicking and screaming all the way.

Everything good about this country were liberal ideas.

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 8:29AM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Von Mises Jr| 9.27.12 @ 8:44AM

CJW, these are the "Best and Brightest" that blamed a movie trailer while they had a real movie about to be released spiking the ball on Obama killing Osama. Isn't that what the Islamist was chanting: "Obama, Obama, we are all Osamas."
The gay BLT movement should be upset since they said the Ambassador frequented gay bars. So I guess to shield Barry and Hillary, it was alright to sacrifice a gay guy to the Islamist. They sent him off with a treat, although I don't think they kissed him first.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 9:08AM

Nevertheless, your side is losing the Presidency, the Senate and maybe even the House. You are being rejected nationwide. So snark away, while you fade away.

Von Mises Jr| 9.27.12 @ 9:23AM

Very lucid argument Caliban. Did you say you have a PhD or were just a JO?
I swear you are a 12 year old and not even performing at grade level. You mommy should make you read something other than The Daily Kos. Or perhaps she is busy earning a living in the boudoir while you are blogging in the basement?

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 10:42AM

Purpie
Some career advice for you.

Obama will lose.

Hillary will run in 2016. So sharpen up on your Hillary talking points and start posting now for Hillary.

Maybe you will get a raise from $10 per hour to a livable wage.

Von Mises Jr| 9.27.12 @ 1:03PM

He better bone up on his Hillary talking points. Otherwise he will have to work the public bathroom again.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:50PM

I knew you wrote off Romney - you just won't admit it ... ;-) Maybe you'll run the other Bush next time. Whaddya think?

pogybait| 9.27.12 @ 8:59AM

Yes, we are watching how liberalism is currently building our country.....elevated levels of poverty and hopelessness, the earmarks of liberalism, all in the name of good intentions.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 9:10AM

Yep, don't "Blame Yo'selves" for nominating Todd Akin, Mitt Romney, Josh Mandel, Tommy Thompson, Scott Brown, Lyin'Ryan, Dean Heller and so many others. Those nominations are liberalism's fault, right?

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:46AM

Todd Akin?
You mean the next "Gentleman from Missouri"???
and if Scott Brown can't beat the Yellow-Haired-Squaw-with-Face-of-Horse, I'll eat my Chief Nok-a-Homer War Bonnet...

Frank "How" Drackman

Laine| 9.27.12 @ 3:34PM

A guy with Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer and too numerous to count corrupt Congresskritters on his team should hardly be squawking about Republican nominations.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:51PM

You do, I can ... it's that simple. Free speech is an American right - or do you want to suppress that too?

Skippy| 9.28.12 @ 3:21PM

Only yours.

fmm| 9.27.12 @ 10:26AM

That should be the lead joke in your next book, "The Life of Fools"

Albertus Magnus| 9.27.12 @ 12:11PM

Purp's hubris is boundless. Societies and economies are built by hard working conservative people. Fact of life. "Liberals" (by today's definition) are incapable of building anything, but eminently capable of taking credit for things they did not and indeed can not do.

Albertus Magnus| 9.27.12 @ 12:15PM

Note: This is why Liberals go in to Government and place such great emphasis on Government, because they can't actually DO anything, except take credit.

Those who can't do, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach Gym.
Those who can't teach Gym, go into politics.
Politicians are the lowest of the low, which is why Purp idolizes and worships politicians and derides and condemns productive, self-reliant people.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:53PM

Can you explain why so many conservatives want to be in Government? Hmmmmm?

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 1:16AM

Most don't. Your premise is incorrect. Liberals worship government (e.g they worship themselves). Liberals see government as the beginning and end of civilization (it isn't). Most conservatives who do go in to politics do so out of a desire to help others or to stop the usurpations and corruptions of liberals. Conservatives usually have money before they go in to politics. It is liberals who go in to government to make themselves rich at taxpayer expense. Again, you offer nothing of value or even coherence. You poor, dim-witted fool.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:53PM

How insulting. The country you live in was BUILT by FDR, TRUMAN, Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ ... Ronald the Clown has torn down some of it... but THAT's who built America of today. God you people are dumb.

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 1:25AM

You are the dumbest stump I have seen on these pages. This country was built by FREE PEOPLE! Not by government. FDR was a cheezy, corrupt jack-ass, who used taxpayer money to buy votes during the depression, who bought and then destroyed food while people went hungry, just to support dairy prices, who doled out "New Deal" money slowly and targeted to regions where he needed votes the most, while other areas were left out to dry. LBJ took the corruption of the New Deal and expanded it to buy Black votes with his "Great Society" fraud. Economies are built by industrious, hard working people, not governments. Fact of History, fact of economics. One is left to wonder if you really believe the insipid nonsense you spew like vomit on these pages. Can people really be as stupid as you present yourself, and still be able to write?

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 12:49PM

Revise history much? This country was built by conservatives. The extent to which it is now a bloody mess (which I know you actually love) is the extent to which liberals have screwed it up.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:55PM

WHO was a conservative that built America? Who? George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Benjamin Franklin? Abraham Lincoln? Just Who?

Oldefarte| 9.27.12 @ 2:01PM

Yean they built this country's snowball that is about ready to reach the bottom of the economic hill and crash into the brick wall of fiscal bankruptcy [from Roosevelt to THE BLACK JESUS]; and if/when it explodes, all of your will be responsible for the resultant carnage!!!!!!

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:54PM

10 Trillion of debt was from Ronald the Clown and the Bush Twins... Blame Yo'self dummy.

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 10:32AM

More horse manure from the #1 horse's ass. The only "clown" president this nation has ever had is in the white house right now. President Bozo is by far the dumbest STUMP (Stupid Trainee Under Military Protection) in American Political History. What a pathetic little loser you are, poor thing.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:44AM

The flip-side of that is that they fetishize groups - they have contempt for individuals (look at their pathetic record of giving to charities), but idolize abstractions.

The plight of the poor black teenager who can't get a job in Harlem because no local business can employ him because minimum wage laws preclude it? Who cares? That kid's individual story has no meaning whatsoever - his only function to the liberal mind is as a fungible victim of "white greed." His victim script is written for him, and god help him if he strays from it - they have no use for this apostate now, and he must be villifed (Allen West, anybody?).

They love "The Poor," "The Black Community," "Hispanics," "LGBT," etc.

Likewise, they embrace abstract concepts and not indivudal realities when dealing with their bigoted hatreds: "The Rich." "The 1 percent." "Tea baggers." - they paint these groups with a single, monochromatic, prejudiced brush - and then accuse US of bigotry!

And so liberals are tools of group-think coming and going: They behave like a flock of birds in turning to their "cause du jour" or the "issue of the day" - getting their marching orders from their legions of corrupt "strategists." And the causes and issues they champion have nothing whatsoever to do with actual human beings. It's all about group identity.

Paul McGrath| 9.27.12 @ 12:08PM

Brilliant Grym. Out of the park. This one goes into the archives.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 12:48PM

Muchos gracias, as Purp would have us say (English being an artificat of EVIL American imperialism).

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 2:04PM

Mr G
Great points.
The lefty liberals love the "Poor" and "Blacks" as a concept but they do not like them much as individuals. They live in expensive predominantly white areas, such as Obama, Algore, Clinton, and Rev Wright, and send their children to private schools, like Obama and Algore and Clinton sent theirs to Sidwell. At least Jimmy Carter sent his daughter to the DC public schools.
They like them from far away.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:56PM

Funny - we say exactly the same thing of the dittoheads and sheeple onthe right!!!

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 10:34AM

"Sheeple" are only on the Left. The term was coined to describe leftist useful idiots, like yourself.

Jacobite| 9.27.12 @ 3:06PM

In the 350-year-old race war in America, the Dems were on the side of whites until FDR, when they began a slo-mo 180. Now, the GOP in post-war Reconstruction were viscious enemies of whites, subordinating them to the battalions of illiterate, drunk, dim-witted freedmen they shoved into the House and Senate. Even Northern whites got sick of the side-show and cut the legs out from under the Radical Republicans. While fighting the Emperor Barakobama I's re-election bid, reminding whites of the GOP's support of Civil Rights Laws which institutionalized anti-white racial discrimination might not be the best move ever. Another example of the truism that whites cannot trust anyone of any race from the NE, ever, on anything. Maybe, in the long run, destroying the GOP and replacing it with a new third party will aid in whites' efforts to reverse their second-class citizenship under law.

PaleRider2| 10.2.12 @ 12:38PM

Now THIS is a correct interpretation of American history, Jacobite, unlike the twisted half-truths of some of Coulter's writing.
Of course, it's not the fact of what PARTY one identifies with, but rather with what IDEOLOGY that PARTY endorses.
The fact that conservative white people fled en masse the Democrat Party, particularly after LBJ, is a fact seemingly lost on Coulter.
For a smart girl she sure is 'stoopid', sometimes.

Gary B| 9.27.12 @ 7:05AM

Another direct hit by Coulter. There's no one better.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 11:46AM

I actually thought Coulter was going wobbly for awhile - her infatuation with Christie is downright bizarre; he is no conservative.

I'm somwhwat reassured by this.

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 12:09PM

Mr G
I think we all liked when Chrisite was combative with the press and unions becaue it was so out of character for a Republican. We are used to Dole and Bush and McCain "reaching across the aisle." whatever that means. That seems the appeal of Christie.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 12:47PM

Agreed, but I thought Coulter was more circumspect than that. I know she said taming budget issues was the most important thing - Christie's coddling of militant Islam being not as important - but, first of all, Christie is liberal in a lot of fiscal ways and, second, it is bloody foolish for anyone to fall in love with any politician (they will inevitably eventually break your heart). It's downright alarming in a supposedly savvy pundit.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:57PM

She purveys to the worst people among us ... and I guess that's you.

Pecos Pete| 9.27.12 @ 7:35AM

Coulter proves that there is no reasoning with stupidity.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:53AM

So I guess she won't be reasoning with you, huh?

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 8:29AM

You laugh about Ambassador Stevens's death.
Sicko.
You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:44AM

Well, it IS sort of funny that these Touchy-Feely-Kum-Ba-Ya-Granola-Earth-Shoe-Wearing Diplomats think they're gonna go to a turbulent A-rab country and not get there hair mussed...
Amazing thing is that MORE ambassadors haven't been killed...

Frank

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 1:26PM

Oohh. Sizzling zinger.

I'm awed by your pedestrian mind.

Oldefarte| 9.27.12 @ 2:03PM

Go do your "reasoning" with Jeremiah Wright or Henry Louis Gates, both of whom are on the same mental plane as you are!!!!!

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 7:58PM

Ruh-roh, Fart Blossom is heard from ... I thought there was a stench in here - oh that's Romney, Paul Ryan's new name for Romney - "STENCH".

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 9:48AM

Purp proves there is no reasoning with stupidity.

TinaB| 9.27.12 @ 8:01AM

I don't think Ann ever claimed to be perfect, in fact she claims just the opposite, that she is a sinner saved by grace. Because we have a two party political system, if she doesn't support Romney, or doesn't vote, it's a vote for the Commie in power. Nothing unprincipled about it. jerk.

JimP| 9.27.12 @ 8:39AM

Like ham and eggs? Like PB&J? Please Mr. Lord. I like those things. OK, I'll think of it as 'racism and left go together like the gulag and archipelago or Hitler and the swastika'. There, now I'm not reminded of 'liberals' while eating some of my favorite foods.

Jack London| 9.27.12 @ 8:47AM

As I keep saying - Jeffery Lord is a genius. He's the only one who's figured out that in fighting discrimination and standing up for equal rights Obama and the Dems are actually hiding the same mentality as those who hung niggers on trees.

Lord will be vindicated when Obama hangs himself on the White House Christmas tree in a symbolic recognition of just what anyone with a liberal outlook really stands for – just wait and see.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 1:38PM

Uh, affirmative action is, by definition, a form of discrimination.

Just for starters.

You don't fight discrimination. You create discrimination - always pointing far away from those pockets where it does exist (i.e., in YOUR OWN pants) and then pretend to fight it. You pretend to care about "victim groups," but you need them to be perpetually victims - not only does this lie provide you with unearned, counterfeit "moral superiority," but it keeps the crooks who are feathering your nest in power.

"Fighting discrimination" is the carrot you dangle in front of the beasts of burden upon whose backs you live like kings and congratulate yourselves. And if those individuals' lives are destroyed, well, there's always more where THAT came from.

Hence your attitude toward illegal immigration.

CJW| 9.27.12 @ 2:08PM

Hubert Humphrey said there was no language in the Civil Rights laws requiring or providing for affirmative action such as quota hiring systems, and if anyone could find such language, he would eat the bill. Notice he said he would eat the bill and not read the bill.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 2:34PM

Quotas are the coin of the realm in America today, one of the chief reasons that mediocrity is now blithely accepted everywhere.

Affirmative action is so destructive - to both blacks and the people who hire them. We need look no further than our affirmative action president; reprobates like Purp like to say we don't like Obama because he's black, but they never admit the real truth: The ONLY reason he rose to every single position in his life is precisely because he is black.

It sure as hell wasn't his intelligence, ability or charm.

Ok, also because the siren song of liberalism has, since 9/11, reached a fevered crescendo (don't tell Emmett Tyrrell, whatever you do); the generations of Marxist propaganda taught to our students, combined with the deliberate omission of teaching critical thinking, has produced a populace of perpetual babies whose only desire in life is to fan the flames of their own vanity or else extort money from others via craven greed disguised as "goodness."

We have decided as a country that we would rather have a business (or bureaucracy) staffed by incompetent people who "look like America," whatever that really means, than have a business (or bureaucracy) staffed by the best people for their jobs regardless of what they look like.

I'll bet a billion dollars that if Purp ever needs emergency surgery, he's not going to insist that the hospital wait until his surgical team is staffed by people who "look like America" regardless of their skill.

Lullabys Legends and Lies| 9.27.12 @ 8:47AM

I haven't gotten "Mugged" yet, but I will this weekend! I have all her other books already, and she's terrific, I wish we had a lot more Coulters' on our side, because she brings the fight to the Left, with plenty of wit, history, and facts! She's fearless, and funny too! I get this feeling she won't be invited on MSLSD anytime soon though, to help sell her book, but then again, that's alright, she doesn't need their help, this book is gonna be #1 (again) with or without them!

On a side note, to Purp, that line of yours above, "Everything good about this country were liberal ideas", that was a good one! You made me laugh out loud, which I don't do often! Thanks for the laugh!

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 9:12AM

You're welcome and for the America you live in. The Founders were liberals too, ya know ....

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:16AM

because they owned Slaves?
Stupid Homo.

Frank

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 8:00PM

No, because they revolted against tyranny ... liberals created all you have that you hold dear .. and you call ME stupid?

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 9:55AM

Sorry Purp, but you are taking the founders out of context. Yes, they were liberal in that they thought the should free themselves of an ever burdoning government and ever increasing taxes, and thats where it ends.
They were conservative in their beleifs not only of religion, but in the way they lived their lives and what they beleived was theirs that no government or individual had a right to. Their work(their money), their pursuit of happiness(their right to work and keep what they earned and too speak, pray and belive the way they wanted) without interence from the government. All things you liberals despise. You want other people work(their money) and you want to tell us what we can or cannot say and what or who we can believe in or not believe in.
Sorry Purp, again we ain't buying what you're selling.
What we scrape off our shoes smells better than any liberal.

Warrior| 9.27.12 @ 10:54AM

Other than Hamilton and his ilk, they held "r"epublican values. They risked everything for what they believed.

Arguing with Soros paid seminar trollers will get you nowhere. You can't find one piece of independent thought.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 8:02PM

Nope - taxation without representation ... do you know what that means? God you are dumb.

Liberals created the Declaration and the Constitution. Conservatives fought NOT to have the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, you dolt. They fought to keep slavery ban out of the Constitution, you know-nothing.

Go back to school and TRY to learn it the first time correctly. You mother is ashamed of you.

Oldefarte| 9.27.12 @ 2:06PM

Quote one factual instance of their stated positions on homosexual marriage, abortion etc to prove your asinine and ludicrous point!!!!!

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 8:03PM

State one statement that Jesus Christ said for or against either one ... ! I'll take HIS word over any human's, but I guess you prefer Rush Loudmouth to Jesus?

Laine| 9.27.12 @ 3:45PM

Liberal in the days of the Founders and liberal now are two different things, a case of progressives stealing a word with positive connotations and mis-applying it to themselves. That's why I call the modern version "libs", in order to deny them a descriptive that does not describe them. The only place where libs grant limitless freedom is sex all the way to the most depraved acts. Everything else, speech, religion, association they attempt to control through government.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 8:06PM

You are completely cockeyed. Project much? The ACLU is hardly a conservative org and THEY fight for all those freedoms. NOT the conservatives that want to restrict everyone to what THEY believe.
No abortion, no gay marriage, no pot smoking, Christianity over all, Vaginal Ultrasound Probes, Legitimate Rape, Healthcare for the healthy only - that is the conservative mental derangement syndrome.

Jo Dowless| 9.27.12 @ 8:59AM

Every word Coulter writes about Democrats NOT being at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement is a lie, including every "and" and "the".

Democrats have a long and proud history of defending Civil Rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans. From the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, Democrats have fought to end discrimination in all forms—including discrimination based on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability.

It's true that many Democrats were segregations, but these Democrats were mostly Southern and RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVES (right-wing like the readers of AmSpec) who did not represent the Democrat majority.

Coulter, a vicious demagogue, is playing a Parlor Trick, the same parlor trick that Republicans have played over and over to hide their despicable civil rights record.

When it comes to corrupting the truth, you people will stop at nothing. Liars, all of you.

Jo Dowless| 9.27.12 @ 9:06AM

And one more thing:

Much of AmSpec's readers' vitriol directed at our president is rooted hatred of Obama's color.

There. I've said it. Now deal with it.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:17AM

Deal with my 14 inches of Alabama Black Snake...

Frank

Bob Grant| 9.27.12 @ 9:37AM

Examples of hatred please.

Oh, and please be more specific of the color to which you refer.

cowgirl| 9.27.12 @ 10:07AM

First of all I don't "hate" Obama. More than anything I feel very sorry for him. Abandoned by not only his father, but his mother and raised by communist parents and mentor Frank Marshall Davis ( a known child molester) most likely had a huge affect on his personality. One of his most prominent personality defects is his emotional detachment from just about everything - a strong indication of sexual abuse at a young age.

Obama is half-white and was raised more as a "white" person than a "black" person. He attended very expensive private schools as a child in Hawaii and then on to very expensive elite universities such as Harvard and Columbia. He lived more a privileged white life than that of a black person.

Let's compare Obama to say Herman Cain who was raised in the south during segregation and Jim Crow laws. Hermain Cain was born to a black mother and a black father both who were poor and worked multiple jobs in order to support their families. Hermain Cain did not attend schools like Harvard or Columbia, but he did obtain degress in computer science and math. He is an accomplished businessman, entreprenuar, singer, radio talk show host and speaker. Obama has a law degree and what has he accomplished? Nothing that any of us know about more than some community organizing and defending a Chicago Slum Lord who turned off water to his BLACK tenants. The Slum Lord won by the way.

I voted and supported Herman Cain and the last time I checked he was a Black Man.

Bill8472| 9.27.12 @ 1:15PM

Prove your claim. You made it, now back it up.

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 4:12PM

Right. Couldn't be the fact that he's an ignorant, angry, immature, pompous, entitled Marxist who opposes everything people on this site believe in.

Nah. It's his skin color. Of course! You people cream your jeans over racism. You LOVE it so much you fantasize about it. You create it because you need it.

In your world, black people are all angels who do nothing wrong. Because any criticism of a black person can ONLY be the result of racism. Of course Jimmy Carter stood for much of what Obama does - there's a lot of vitriol on this site directed at him. Is that because of his skin color, too?

The only reason you hate Allen West is because he's a black who wandered off the liberal plantation.

Those uppity boys just don't know their place, to they, Jo?

jothepro| 9.27.12 @ 9:11AM

Hey Jo, Just keep your head up your ass because there isn't anything you can post here that isn't laughed at or scorned as the thoughts of an ignoramus.

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 9:59AM

Joe,
Then maybe you can tell us Martin Luther King was a republican? Maybe you can tell us why both Kennedy and Johnson had the FBI tapping his phone line and spying on him. Maybe you can tell why LBJ said, "We'll have them niggers voting for us for the next fifty years", when his Great Society was passed. Maybe you'll tell us why the liberal states still vote to keep the voting rights act enforced only in some states that have shown no racism intheor voting patterns for over 40 years, and when they did show racism in voting it was the Democrats that controlled every one of those states?
We look forward to your answers to those questions. Not the name calling or the changing of the subject you liberals like to do, but answers.

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 10:02AM

the above is for Joe Dowless.

Paul McGrath| 9.27.12 @ 12:16PM

Here is an interesting statistic for you. There have been two black Supreme Court Justices in American history; one a liberal, Thurgood Marshall; and one a conservative, Clarence Thomas.

91% of the NO votes for Thurgood Marshall came from Democrats.

96% of the NO votes for Clarence Thomas came from Democrats.

Explain this please.

Laine| 9.27.12 @ 3:54PM

Jo Dowless. Please bring to this table the number of Democrats vs Republicans as recorded in the Congressional Record who voted for and against the Civil Rights Act and then try to maintain your asinine beliefs against recorded facts. Like all libs, Facts are krypton to libs like you who refuse to touch them so I'll inform you that more Republicans than Dems voted to pass the Civil Rights Act. Hopefully your head will now explode.

Jo Dowless| 9.27.12 @ 9:07AM

Make that "rooted in the hatred of Obama's color."

jothepro| 9.27.12 @ 9:13AM

I actually have more trouble with The One's white side than the black side..

Bill8472| 9.27.12 @ 1:16PM

Prove it.

Louis Jenkins| 9.27.12 @ 9:22AM

I am not a hater of blacks. I believe almost every word written by Sowel, who by the way is black. I support Keyes, and other black men who, unfortunately to your ears, tells the truth. I dislike Obama because he is white, which truly he is. He only wears the black mask. I dislike Obama because of his political and social beliefs. His personal history of cavorting with Communists, socialists, and others is most distasteful. You will notice, of course, that Jo immediately mentions our hatred is rooted by a man's color. Gotta play that race card don't we. Feel better?

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:23AM

Everyone always wants to have "A Discussion about Race", OK, here it goes.
How come you N-words get to use the N-word and we don't? How come more N-Words kill Non-N-Words than the other way around? How come NFL players making millions of dollars drive with expired tags? How come N-words support DemoKKKrats, who support Abortion, thats killed so many potential N-words, that Richard Rountree would have been the first N-word president in 1992. Why hasn't OJ been shanked, and last of all,
HOW COME YOU N-WORDS RUIN PERFECTLY GOOD CROWN VICTORIAS WITH THOSE REDICULOUS 34 INCH WHEELS(They're WHEELS, not "RIMS") and CURB FEELERS.

Frank "Air Ruwanda is ready when you are" Drakcman

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 9:31AM

Here's some news from Florida about your right-wing hate-monger Ann Coulter that you Repukes may have missed.

Ms. Coulter was accused of voter fraud not too long ago, for registering to vote using her real estate agent’s address. Now it turns out she may have used the same address to register a driver’s license—meaning Coulter could be charged with two third-degree felonies and one misdemeanor, if only someone would prosecute the case.

Bob Grant| 9.27.12 @ 9:42AM

Lord,

How about we prosecute all voter fraud cases?

Laine| 9.27.12 @ 3:56PM

Good idea. The net loss will be for Dems who live by voter fraud.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.27.12 @ 10:42PM

Ironic, that a man who blogs under the name of a famous fugitive would be concerned about the criminal acts of others.

John Navratil| 9.27.12 @ 9:35AM

Purp must have gotten a raise, or some new porn. He's definitely excited.

Derek Leaberry| 9.27.12 @ 9:37AM

As is her wont, Ann is disingenuous about her history. Southern Conservative Democrats switched over a fifty year period to being the bulwark of the Republican Party once the Democrats became the party of liberal whites and blacks, beginning in the 60s. These Southern Conservative Democrats supported segregation until the Supreme Court and the liberals of both parties destroyed segregation in the mid-60s.

On another note, it is a given that a larger percentage of Republican senators supported certain civil rights laws in the mid-60s than Democrats. Yet these were largely liberal and moderate Republicans, condemned as RINOS today, and unlikely to be nominated in the Republican Party today. These include Jacob Javits of New York, Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, George Aiken of Vermont, Clifford Case of New Jersey, and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania.

And one last item. The South had segregation for a century due to the proximity of the races. The North had and has its own way of dealing with racial differences. There used to be restrictive covenants and red-lining in Yankeedom until these were struck down. And, of course, "white flight" is a phenomena that began in Yankeedom and is strongest in the states who fought for the Union 1861-65. You might say that "white flight" is the Yankee form of segregation. When cities and neighborhoods like Detroit, south Chicago, the Bronx, and Prince George's County MD get to a tipping point, white run away.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 9:41AM

its "Whites" BTW, or are you adopting the ebonics practice of dropping the plural "s"..
I know, its progress, and in a few generations English will consist of a series of teeth clicks and popping sounds...
Frank

John Navratil| 9.27.12 @ 11:27AM

Derek Leaberry,

You might note the Black flight back from the northern urban areas to the South.

Derek Leaberry| 9.27.12 @ 3:54PM

True. But the "black flight" isn't to the rural South. It is to cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Dallas and Nashville.

John Navratil| 9.27.12 @ 8:00PM

Derek Leaberry,

And the majority of black flight from the South was also from the urban areas. They fled the segregationist Democrats fifty years ago and are moving back to the South now that it is more conservative.

To go back to your point of southern segregationists (which were almost entirely Democrat), which migrated to the Republican party. OK, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. Who else? Can you name one? Robert Byrd? Fritz Hollings? George Wallace? Talmadge? Being from Louisiana, I can ask Leander Perez, J. Bennet Johnson, Russell Long, and John McKeithen? How about Lester Maddox?

Who are all these old segregationist Democrats in the Republican party?

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 9:46AM

The quote below is from Derek Leaberry's above comment, and it is very telling:

"On another note, it is a given that a larger percentage of Republican senators supported certain civil rights laws in the mid-60s than Democrats. Yet these were largely liberal and moderate Republicans, condemned as RINOS today, and unlikely to be nominated in the Republican Party today."

The Republican Party today is not the civilized party of ladies and gentlemen it used to be.
Today's Republican Party is made up mostly of crazed Christian fundamentalists tea party types-- the very types dignified, educated Republicans detest.

This is why I am now a Democrat.

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 9:48AM

As for today's typical Republican, take a look at Frank Drackman's posts. Ignorant, brutish vulgarity.

Alej| 9.27.12 @ 10:13AM

It seems posts by Frank "The Truth" Drackman have hit a nerve !

Ah'm luvin' ee-yut !

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 11:59AM

As far as ignorant, brutish vulgarity, The first thing that pop's to my mind is "It's constitutional bitches!" or how about Hillary's advisor telling the reporter to "F- off" or the historic vice president telling everyone what a big F-n deal Obama care is into an open mike. Ignorant...corpsemen, 57 states, sissy, dope smoking coward.

And spaking of "Brutish" that Michelle Obama is one handsome piece of work...for a Klingon.

The typical liberal is a liar and a lover of lies. They are simply fleas and locusts, vermin that should be eradicated.

Should you idiots on the left ever get your way you will be the first lined up against the wall and shot by the same people you put in power.

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 12:00PM

You are a democrat because you are a homosexual.

Dave Williams| 9.27.12 @ 12:11PM

I'm a Cornell PhD, an out and proud atheist, and a staunch Reagan Republican. Deal with it.

Nick| 9.27.12 @ 12:30PM

You're a proud atheist who won't defend your statements, Mr. Williams.

Dave Williams| 9.27.12 @ 12:11PM

I'm a Cornell PhD, an out and proud atheist, and a staunch Reagan Republican. Deal with it.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 12:14PM

See, a Surpreme Being wouldn't post twice, even without a PhD.

Frank

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 12:14PM

See, a Surpreme Being wouldn't post twice, even without a PhD.

Frank

Bill8472| 9.27.12 @ 1:31PM

"High above Cayuga's waters,
There's an awful smell!
Some say it's Cayuga's waters,
Some say it's Cornell!"

nathan| 9.28.12 @ 9:42AM

Interesting combination (smile)

Grzmlyk| 9.27.12 @ 4:38PM

I guess you are proof that not everbody gets wiser as they get older.

Some of them devolve back into children.

For which the Democrat party was tailor-made!

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 10:10AM

Lucan says, "Today's Republican Party is made up mostly of crazed Christian fundamentalists tea party types-- the very types dignified, educated Republicans detest."
Lucan, you prove the point of what Ann Coulter is saying with that one sentence. Yep, you are a Democrat.
You wouldn't know a crazed Christian from any other type of Christian. You'd have to step into a church first.You'd have to read the bible and learn from it and you'd have to do your best to abide by the Ten Commandments. Several of which you just vilated.
As for Tea Pariers, you have no idea what they are really about. Tea Partiers want the Constitution followed. We want our tax dollars to be used properly and we want our taxes lowered. Pretty simple stuff.

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 10:18AM

Sorry, Stkman, but I was what you would call a "country club Republican." We were more dignified, more civil in our speech.

As you can see in my above post, I switched over to the Democratic Party because of the riff-raff that has taken over today's Republican Party.

The right-wing extremist elements have destroyed what was once the proud, civilized, educated party of refined conservatives.

Today's Republicans, on the other hand, despise the very idea of refinement.

Nick| 9.27.12 @ 10:46AM

You're full of it, Lord Tucan.
Why didn't you leave in 1994, when conservatives took back the Congress, after 40 years of democrat rule? (Because RINOs, like yourself, liked being in the minority.)

The House and Senate GOP members of today are only slightly more conservative than the Class of '95.

Stkman| 9.27.12 @ 10:51AM

Sorry Lucan,
You are the one that is wrong. Republicans used to be people who helped their fellow Americans. Then the so called country club group as you like to call them joined forces with G.W. Bush and started the new world order, or as we common folk call it, the wholesale transfer of jobs to Asia for your bank account. You see, we Tea Partiers are the Party of a Republican named Theodore Roosevelt, not G.W. Bush, G.H.W Bush or even Romney.
We Tea Pariers believe that whats good for the average American is good for all Americans. You seem to think that whats good for elitist is good for them and to hell with everyone else. Elitist like you are really liberals, just in another form.

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 12:01PM

You were a log cabin republican.

Jeff| 9.28.12 @ 11:31AM

Refinement is not a principle. Which appears to be the reason you hate conservatives....on principle.

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 10:21AM

Beautiful day here on Hilton Head. Off to the club for a round of . . .

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 12:01PM

Gay sex in the bushes?

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 12:13PM

Nah, Lucan hates Bush.
More like cleaning Pedro the Poolboy's balls...

Lord Lucan| 9.27.12 @ 1:01PM

Can't wait until Wed., November 7th, the day y'all will post your pathetic, unhinged, Lewis Carroll, MAD TEA PARTY reactions to Obama's re-election to his shimmering second term.

Oh, the Mad Hatter remarks y'all will make while foaming at the mouth.

Losers.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 2:43PM

Jokes on You, Lord of the Flies.
Even if EICOTUS(Evolver in Chief of the United States)wins, he'll be lucky to last a year.
DON'T Call the Secret Service, I'm talking about the President's(Peace be upon Him)unhealthy smoking habit.
And I hear he smokes tobacco too....
Seriously, I think he's already got Joe Paterno's disease, the gravely voice, black shoes, blind eye to Federal Felonies committed right under his nose...
Our Future, I see, a blitthering idiot making Oval Orifice TV speaches, just like FDR did during the great Recession..

Frank "what smells?"Drackman

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 3:06PM

A couple of things Frank; One, check out a web site called "Stuff Black People Don't Like." It is one of my favorites and I'm sure you would enjoy it very much. Two it's not EICOTUS it's SCFOMF (Stuttering Cluster F... of A Miserable Failure)..

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 3:52PM

"Stuff Black People don't like"??????
I don't get it, after "Jobs" "Pickup Trucks" "Golf" "Sitting Quietly in Movie Theaters", "Workfare", "Drug Tests", what's left??
Oh yeah, "Firehoses"...
they don't like em for some reason..

Frank

Boar Hunter| 9.27.12 @ 2:58PM

I have maintained for some time now that I do in fact hope Obama wins.

I believe that by his attempt to administer the coupe-de-gra to America during his second and last term, the cowards in the Republican party establishment will finally wake up.

I believe it is possible that even the blacks may suddenly realize that Obama has no more love for them than he does for his brother in the Kenyan ghetto or those illiterate animals in the Chicago slums he organized.

Oh well, as long as he is pro gay you will vote for him, cause that's all that matters. How funny that you homo's rant about the Christian haters and support the guy that is empowering the very religion that would cut off your heads. I do certainly hope you get what you are asking for.

Yes, you heard right. I do hope one of those muslim animals cuts off your head or you get mugged by some flash mob of blacks all while you scream, but, but but "I voted for Obama!"

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 3:49PM

"You Homo's"????
first of all, I thought I was the only one who still said that, its sort of 80's Retro, like "Tubular"...
and I think you used the ' incorrectly, You Homo.

Frank

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 10:28AM

Really,
whats the deal with Jerry-Kurls? Did anyone think that was a good look?
Umm except for Jules Winfield, don't want to piss that Nigger off...

Frank "Did I break your Concentration?" Drackman

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 10:36AM

The Voting Fraud in Florida's so bad, I saw someone trying to register wearing a "Tray-von Martin" shirt, AS Tray-von Martin...

Frank "Massah" Drackman

Who Knows?| 9.27.12 @ 10:51AM

Maybe purp is a conservative, working for The American Spectator, whose job is to parrot the extreme left talking points.

Surely no one could actually believe what he writes.

Purp| 9.27.12 @ 8:09PM

Wanna bet? But most of us wouldn't bother with you ... but I think some of you are worth saving... I'm just like Father Flanigan - there are no bad boys, just boys that had bad things happen to them.

Come to me misinformed conservadums - I will save you!!!

Nick| 9.27.12 @ 8:23PM

During the past couple of weeks, Burp has REPEATEDLY blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate. He STUPIDLY believes that an ambassador has more power than the president.

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence and lying.
__________________

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 8:06PM

"Who is in charge of the Embassy in a country? Who decides what is or isn't done in the Embassy?
"It is the Ambassador. He loved Libya, he miscalculated and tragically is dead.
"But, why would a President bother appointing an Ambassador if you're not going to listen to his advice. [...]
"Sadly, we can't ask the Ambassador himself - but that was his job."

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Purp| 9.19.12 @ 10:49PM

"Say it all you want ... Ambassador is the boss. If he wanted more security, he'd have had it. It sure isn't the President's fault. [...] Twist all you want. He was the boss, and he is now dead."

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You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

spike59| 9.28.12 @ 6:40AM

Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
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Purp is but one part of the collective known as the "multitude of fools"

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 1:39PM

This is the best post of the month. Truer words were never spoken.

Who Knows?| 9.27.12 @ 11:04AM

Extremist right wing kudos to reliable Ann Coulter!

May she live a long and productive life, cranking out many more books exposing the lies and suicidal essence of liberals.

I think it was Lincoln who pointed out that America offered wide open fields for those willing to work, and succeed. Well, when it comes to topics for tilling, there’s room for many more Ann Coulters!

The liberal crap IS far and wide and deep!

I think of Ms. Coulter as a political sewage treatment plant. Why, liberals are all for a clean environment.

Why do they, then, THEMSELVES, pollute the noosphere, so diligently?

Pace this, did you notice the Drudge link, “Children’s brains imprinted with fast-food logos”--

http://www.medicaldaily.com/ar.....brains.htm

As I’ve been saying for years, it’s the brainwashing, stupid!

Wisdom is sorely lacking in most people, most of the time.

Where is the discriminative knowledge precisely cognizing all the separate objects and elements without confounding any of them?

The pathetic fallacy may be wrong. Dogs, people?

Pavlov rules.

delahaya| 9.27.12 @ 11:16AM

Yep, there's a reason liberals go into the media and education. Both have become propaganda tools under their rule. People ARE affected by what they see and hear, its obvious. There is a reason advertisers pay big bucks for commercials.

atilla| 9.27.12 @ 11:08AM

I LOVE ANN COULTER CAUSE SHE'S A BABE....WITH A BRAIN

delahaya| 9.27.12 @ 11:13AM

As a Southerner, I would buy this book simply for its evisceration of the stupid "Southern Strategy" meme from the MSM. To recount the hypocrisy surrounding race would take pages, but here's just an example. I was accused recently by a liberal friend of going to a "lily-white" church. Well, first, nothing wrong with that in a free society. Second, he's just wrong. He simply assumed that because he knows many people going there and we're mostly conservatives. Not only is the church multiracial, it is getting more so as members foster and adopt children both here and abroad. We don't need a big government program; we're taking care of these kids ourselves. This same liberal friend has also used the tired canard that pro-lifers only care about the fetus, not the born child, which is also clearly untrue. Oh, my liberal friend lives in one of those new gated communities with a guard. I have yet to see anyone other than a white person in this neighborhood when I visit. My neighborhood is a upper-middle class conservative area that I also get criticized for. It's makeup is as follows: Neighbors to right are white. Neighbors to left are Indian. Neighbor behind is Hispanic. Neighbors across street left are white. Neighbors across right are black. We are all conservatives except for the white neighbor across the street. Maybe someday liberals will enter reality. Until then, we just have to live with their silly psychological projections.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 11:25AM

As a HookNose/Kike/Hebe/Christ-Killer(Black People! Help me out, what epithets am I forgetting?) I don't like Whites(Damn Backward-Nascar-Hat-Wearin-Hillbillies) OR Blacks(Damn Backward-Malcolm the X-Hat-Wearing-Poach-Monkeys)
I prefer the As-ian Neighborhoods, clean, quiet, no annoying stray animals, and no rude comments when I do my daily Kata in the backyard(Nude of course)

Frank "Chinese Eyes" Drackman

Bill8472| 9.27.12 @ 12:51PM

"Jesus saves."

"Moses invests."

Bill8472| 9.27.12 @ 11:49AM

I believe Ann Coulter is a fair-minded person, and I haven't read Mugged. I do respectfully claim that many of the foremost activists of the Civil Rights movement were more to the left than they were to the right. I have in mind the Freedom Riders, who paid some serious dues for their drive to bring the franchise to southern black people, and to the people from Freedom Summer and the voter registration drives. I think it's fair to say that they were probably lefty-oriented. Perhaps they were just youthful idealists and would have voted Republican after they reached their maturity, but I honestly don't think so.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.27.12 @ 11:12PM

I haven't read the book yet, but I get the impression from what she has written elsewhere (as well as what she has been saying on this book tour, and what is in this article) that it is important to expand your understanding of the advance of Civil Rights as more than just the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the period of time immediately preceding it.

Jeffrey Lord has covered well some of this history in other articles here previously. If one considers that the Republican Party was founded in the 1850s in large part to advance the abolition of slavery, and considers the role that Democrats played during the largest part of that period, their record has consistently been the one which advocates placing the rights of one race over another.

That there were voting rights advocates from the left during a small portion of this 160+ year movement does not erase that those who were lynching blacks in the 1920s, burying these civil rights workers in earthen dams or turning the fire hoses on the crowd were registered Democrats.

While a few Dixiecrat or segregationist politicians became Republicans (Strom Thurmond), most (former KKK recruiter Robert Byrd, Fulbright, Faubus, Al Gore Sr.,) died Democrats. Though George Wallace splintered off in 1968, formed the American Party and took some of the Democrat segregationist vote from Humphrey, when he was running fror President in 1972, he was doing it in the Democrat primary when he was shot by Arthur Bremer.

Seek| 9.27.12 @ 11:57AM

Ann Coulter's new book tells us nothing we haven't read a thousand times before by Jonah Goldberg, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin and other blowhard, race-denying pundits on a fool's errand. There are no surprises here -- just the usual meme about "liberal racism" that utterly misses the main reality: The Left, far from hating blacks (there might be some good reasons if they did, by the way), love them. And they readily work on behalf of black interests in teh name of "Diversity."

Democrat is no more synonymous with "liberal" than Republican is synonymous with "conservative." Southern Democrats for a good century after the Civil War were generally quite conservative on race matters. It was Northern Democrats who declared war on the Klan, with Republicans generally siding with the Northern faction. Cherry-picking a few Red State-approved talking points isn't going to make history go away.

We should vote against Democrats, all right. But we should do so for the OPPOSITE reason that the Ann Coulters of this world urge us to: They are anti-white. Let the blacks provide their own p.r. We whites don't need to do it for them. The Left is laughing at us for being so naive, as we do their dirty work, barring race-realist conservatives from employment and publication (talk to John Derbyshire about that one).

Thom| 9.27.12 @ 6:07PM

“Democrat is no more synonymous with "liberal" than Republican is synonymous with "conservative."”

Really? Explain how 63 “conservative” Democrats got thrown out of the House in 2010 after having voted to give “liberal” King Obama every major vote he ask for?

Several “conservative” Democrat Senators have decided to no run for re-election or are in a fight for their seats because they backed King Obama at every turn. What you do defines who you are not what you say you are.

Seek| 9.28.12 @ 4:26PM

For a full century in the South following the Civil War, the period in which the Klan was regnant, "Democrat" and "liberal" usually meant the opposite, and not the same thing. There is, like it or not, a long Jefferson-derived tradition of Democratic Party libertarian decentralism, albeit with a nasty streak. (It was Hamilton who was the true ancestor of the Republicans.) Coulter, so completely obsessed with saying and doing the opposite of everything today's liberals say and do, simply won't acknowledge this. So she constructs a counter-narrative of history in which Democrats -- clearly the ANTI-WHITE party -- are recast as anti-black.

My question: Why bother with this exercise in futility? Is Ann freaked out over the prospect being called a "racist?" Who cares what the blacks or their white enablers think of us? Why implicitly accept the main assumption of the Left -- that "racism" is bad and shouldn't be tolerated, so long as liberals are "guilty" of it? There is no reason why we whites should feel guilty about sticking up our own kind. Let the blacks do their own public relations. That's what they have Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton & the like for. They don't need our help.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 12:20PM

How did a Nation, that not too long ago, had a former KKK Grand Kleagle 4th in line for the Presidency, get to the point that 38% of the White Vote wins the WhiteHouse???
I mean if I'd known this would happen, I'd have picked my own Cotton...

Frank "I declare"Drackman

loulou| 9.27.12 @ 1:40PM

I just want to be able to use the word "niggardly" again.

Seek| 9.27.12 @ 2:33PM

Hey, you'd be committing a "hate crime." We can't have that in the Age of Mandatory Diversity.

Bill8472| 9.28.12 @ 12:38PM

And "black hole."

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 2:47PM

Hey, lets take a break from the Politics, Racial Strife, Namecalling...
Am I the only one who thinks Ann Coulter would be really great in the sack? My gracious, she sounds like she's orgasm-ing when-ever she mentions that Fatty Chris Christie....
And how bout a 3-way with Dana Parino, Ann, and that Mink, Minka Zyzzzzbryzn-ski from PMS-NBC????
OK, everyone can name there favorite racist 3 Stooges Episode...
I like the one with the Cook with the bugeyes...

Frank

Sjccoach| 9.27.12 @ 2:55PM

The modern day definition of civil rights is treat me equally when it suits my purposes, treat me more than equally when is suits my purposes.

Thom| 9.27.12 @ 3:31PM

"idea of liberals as civil rights heroes is not only a tragedy and a myth but a seriously bad joke"

You can rule a country with just 30% support if you control certain things. The free flow of information is one of those things. The education, care and feeding of children are two important others. The big lie like this works because the Marxist control 80% of the "news" and similar amounts of the education, care and feeding of children business through their institutionalized government based or supported programs. This is not a "bad joke", it is an unfolding tragedy that will eventually become something much, much worse for most. The assumption that "blacks" don't know that the Democrat party is racist based is "false". Give a "slave" a choice between living off the fruits of someone else's labor or biting the hand that feeds them and we know how this story ends.

The "ugly" truth of the matter is that the ancestors of freed slaves have freely chosen with their votes to be wards of the Democrat Party. Like a pet, as long as the gravy keeps showing up each month in whatever form that takes the modern day "slaves" are content to live in what some call squalor but the bulk of the rest of the world would call living in "high cotton". Never underestimate humanity's ability to enslave itself to any willing Master. The Truth is only important to people who honor virtue.

Frank Drackman| 9.27.12 @ 3:58PM

Umm I don't get your "Pet" anal-ology Thom(whatever happened to Thom McMahon Shoes BTW?)
Cause if you had a Pet who didn't work, used drugs, murdered your race at 10 times the rate of any other ethic group, and ran so many redlights I sometimes think I'm flashbacking to Khoramshar Iran(don't ask, or I'll have to kill you)
Like I said, if you had a Pet like that, you'd take him to the Pound for a Zyklon-B "Breathalyzer"(HT Barak Obama)
Just kidding, you wouldn't have a pet euthanized just for being annoying.
Down South We'd "12-gauge-a-nize" em...

Frank

Thom| 9.27.12 @ 5:19PM

Frank,
Have you ever tried to make a pet out of a wild animal that has claws, teeth that can hurt you and it didn’t want to be a “pet”? That’s one of my hobbies sort of and it is demanding work. Bleeding is not optional. Humans on the other hand are reasoning beings and can make rational self-interest decisions that animals can’t Simply put it is easier to make “pets” out of humans than wild animals. If you doubt that look at all the slave cultures and you will find the following: a magnitude of order more slaves than Masters. No slave culture could stand if the slaves really wanted to not be slaves…. There is a bond between Master and slaves that make the culture work. If you still doubt that then you don’t understand what Benjamin Franklin meant when he said, “a republic, if you can keep it”. Democracies produce slave cultures and fall, Republics do not. The difference between the two is not semantics and quite fatal to one.

Randolph Greene| 9.27.12 @ 5:52PM

Frank Drackman, the poor, poor soul.

He's been running his mouth on this blog since 9:46 A.M. non-stop, and his last post was posted at 3:58 P.M.

The man has no life. He's probably wheelchair bound, "trying to reach out to the world . . ."

So sad . . .

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.27.12 @ 11:28PM

Posting as Randolph Greene today, are we (Fall coming early to the mountains outside of Portland)? You seem obsessed with that wheelchair thing, as well.

RCV| 9.27.12 @ 4:21PM

Just a few months ago, TAS rightwingers were complaining what a lying, demented sellout Ann Coulter was. Now she's back in their favor. Fickle group!

John Navratil| 9.27.12 @ 8:04PM

RCV,

Context, please. About the only thing I remember was her support for Chris Christie being foolish. It was, but here corollary that Romney will lose to Obama may ultimately (one despairs) be right.

Lying? Demented? I don't recall. I'm obviously suffering from dementia.

sotto voce| 9.27.12 @ 7:56PM

I'm so glad Coulter wrote this book. This has been a pet subject of mine ever since the blinders fell from my eyes. I was raised a liberal Democrat and believed the all-Republicans-are-racist nonsense until I started doing some research. It's incredible that Democrats have been able to rewrite history and fool so many people for decades. Kudos to Coulter for exposing them. They're not going to go quietly, though. The harpies on The View worked themselves into a frenzy lambasting Coulter for telling the truth. I love the clip where Whoopi demands Ann tell her what she knows about being black, and Ann responds (I'm paraphrasing) that her book isn't about being black, it's about what white liberalism has done to blacks.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 4:10AM

sotto, put your blinders back on because they were your glasses. All Coulter does is rewrite right wingdumb history. The party on the right has no color... why is that Sottie? Well, let me answer that for you.. It is because the right wingdumb does not relate to the "OTHER". Once upon a time the party that Lincoln belonged to, did not want to compete with cheap labor or slave labor that the southerners could use... so in order to create a level labor field, Slavery had to go. Racism / slavery can also be seen as a work force that the Northerners could not compete with... Since the North had pretty much abolished slavery...the north created a situation where early industrialist and agriculturalist could not compete with southern slave labor...

Albertus Magnus| 9.28.12 @ 1:44PM

"All Coulter does is rewrite right wingdumb history." This is a false statement.

"The party on the right has no color..." This too is a false statement and a false premise to your silly rhetorical question.

"Racism / slavery can also be seen as a work force that the Northerners could not compete with..." This is just ridiculous. Racism was not confined to the South and was well established in such "genteel" Northern States as Massachussetts, a racism which continued well into the late 20th Century.

You history is weak and your reasoning is simply absurd.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 3:28PM

All, You are correct on one account, "racism continued well into the 20th century", and it didn'y stop there... racism is alive and well into the 21st century, especially in the right wing kingdumb. If you don't believe that then read any of your right wing hate blogs comment sections, such as WMD, the Blaze, This one. and so on. One would have to be quite ill-equipped at reading the english language to not notice the hate for Blacks and other minorities, Muslims, gays, feminist, etc.

As well the right wing has virtually no color, for what little skin color variation there is still, if not white it's beige thinking.

I grew up in Kentucky, I know what racism is. I can also tell you for a fact that todays conservatives, especially from where I have lived in the US, are by and large more blatantly racist or generally more xenophobic than those on the left.

And as far as your Lincoln Republicans... its cool that Lincoln became the icon for ending slavery in the US, BUT one has to remember that Abe Lincoln never had any Black friends.... And I stand behind the economic reason why slave labor was unfair competition against norther wage labor.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:44PM

Clip all your socialist blather. Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of Planned Parenthood, a private corporation which nonetheless gets a Federal subsidy thanks to the Democratic Party, said this to one of her organizers who didn't see the need to have Black ministers in paid positions with birth-control clinics: "we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

The Democrats have been incredible experts in painting up their projects as being race-neutral, but the fact is, it's not just the South where they've nodded quietly to racism. The National Guard was required to integrate the schools in South Boston because racism in that Democratic Party stronghold was a fact. The Democratic Party OWNED the part of Detroit where Eminen filmed "8 Mile" - where local residents actually built a wall to delineate where the white people lived and where the black people lived. Local politicians were conspicuous by their silence about this.

Mike in N.C.| 9.27.12 @ 10:45PM

Home run? No, just another Coulter brain fart that will reverberate around the right wing echo chamber where it will be taken seriously. It will be dissected, discredited and mocked by anybody else who bothers to read her latest screed. How much was the kickback, Jeffrey?

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:55PM

Dunno, Mike. What sort of kickback has Barack Obama gotten for shunting "distressed entities" to Warren Buffett and George Soros? He's a confirmed member of that famous 1% now - not because of his official salary, but his capital holdings.

I can't help but think Jeffrey Lord doesn't need kickbacks from Ann Coulter and her publishers.

(pause)

Sorry, but someone who gets his news from the mainstream media calling anything else an "echo chamber" had me rolling on the floor, laughing.

Mike in N.C.| 9.27.12 @ 10:47PM

Home run? No, just another Coulter brain fart that will reverberate around the right wing echo chamber where it will be taken seriously. It will be dissected, discredited and mocked by anybody else who bothers to read her latest screed. How much was the kickback, Jeffrey?

Jeff| 9.28.12 @ 11:26AM

You have a curious way of not addressing the issue.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:59PM

Jeff, Mike and his buddies have NEVER addressed the issue of racism in the Left, any more than Daniel Inouye has told Hawaiian kids to stop holding "Beat a Haole Day," or Russell Long ever denounced Chalin Perez.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 2:20AM

I see that it's the old cyclical right wing spin article about how wonderful and non-racist the right wingdubm is. And dear old Ann, just can't win at getting anyone but the choir to listen. No doubt there were the racist southern Dixiecrats that probably made up the majority of Southern democrats...at one point in time... Not now though. The democratic party today are certainly not made up of dixiecrats, nor were the northern Democrats who coexisted alongside the southern democrats, collectively racist either. The Dems had a split party on the race issue. ... Then came along Johnson who signed modern civil rights legislation into law, at the bidding of republicans as well as Democrats. Johnson was most likely a bigot himself from what I can gather, however, even though it were an unpopular thing to do, amongst many dems and republicans of that time, Johnson signed unpopular legislation anyway. Perhaps his better side won out in the end.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 2:21AM

But now we have the Republican party that is almost all white... And to say that numbers don't speak volumes about attitudes, is silly--for that many conservative white right wingers are not log cabin republicans anymore. As well, to ignore the reality that Blacks and other minorities in this country, vote left of right wingdumb is simply a matter of voting for the party that offers better ways to come up...as in social programs, such as affirmative action, education, etc.

The GOP likes to claim Blacks are too enslaved or ignorant to join the GOP. Well, listen here GOP people and Tea Party People, if you think Blacks and other minorities are too ignorant to vote against their best interest then you are making a pretty ignorant judgment about people who are not lacking in mental attributes. If you GOPers want the balck vote then give people a way out of poverty...not just cheer leading pom poms about how great and brave you will be without a safety net.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 7:22AM

I gather from the contents of your post that you concur with Mitt Romney from the May 2012 tape that he should not count on the votes of up to 47% of the people who are not paying income taxes and receiving government benefits.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 3:36PM

All, you know as well as I do that everyone pays taxes in one form or another, whether it be property taxes, sales taxes, state income taxes, car registration, etc. and you are right, Romney is not likely to get the vote from retirees whose sole income is SS (non taxable income) or others who he insulted... Anyway, it doesn't really matter, Romney will not be elected President... he is to much like the previous administration that got us into this mess in the first place.

Bush wasn't invited to the GOP convention because Bush would of reminded everyone of what the GOP has become--The Grand Outdated Party.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:30PM

richard, the taxes "everyone" pays pay for specific things like keeping the local schools open, paving the roads, or running local government. What Romney was saying is that Obama's voters want to take even more money from the Federal tax fund, but are happy - thrilled, even - not to have to pay into that tax fund.

I take it from YOUR comment that you prefer people like Obama who have Congress pass Obamacare in ignorance, and lie to us about how it and everything else the Federal government does is paid for to be in charge.

I didn't think Romney was particularly bright as a politician for speaking the truth about the 47%, but it's time someone in charge told us the truth.

And you may be surprised. Carter led in the polls up until that important poll taken the first week in November, 1980. So did Mondale. So did Dukakis. So did Gore.

Statistically, if Obama manages to hang on to his job after getting his ambassador to Libya and three other people killed and showing he didn't know what he was talking about when this Muslim family connection he's so coy about didn't make him any more popular with the "Arab street" than Bush was... it'll be a surprise.

Besides, in almost every state not totally controlled by the Democrats, the polls will be watched a lot more carefully than they were last time. No more $7 voter registrations for Obama.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:19PM

Let's cut it up into bite-size pieces for you:

Obamacare has business owners terrified that they'll be taxed out of business just for hiring people next year.

Businesses pay taxes when they make enough money to have a profit left over after they pay their bills.

If they don't think they can pay their bills at all if they hire new people, they won't hire new people,

The taxes we'll need to pay for your "safety net" don't get paid on business that doesn't happen and jobs that don't exist.

Ordinary people, unfortunately, pay taxes FIRST - the government insists on it.

They don't get to negotiate with Barack Obama over whether they're better off paying 2,000 dollars more next year so the family down the road which makes less than $30,000 a year gets medical care free because Barack Obama and a bullied Congress decreed they go on Medicaid.

If making more than $30,000 a year means you pay all of YOUR medical costs and all of someone else's, too... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the smart move is to keep your income down to the point where you take and don't give. Even less tax money to pay all for all that free medical care.

But Democrats like you don't seem to get any of that. Yet, you have the nerve to call US dumb.

No new jobs and no new business means no new tax money to pay for all the giveaways Barack Obama wants.

That simple enough for you?

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 5:14PM

We're waiting for you to actually rebut Ann Coulter's point in her new book "Mugged." Suggestions for you to research (shouldn't be hard if your political accusations weren't strongly influenced by bong hits):

- Give us a nice list of all the times and places Lyndon Baines Johnson or ANY national figure in the Democratic Party denounced Plaquemines Parish Democratic political boss Chalin Perez's building of a concentration camp south of New Orleans to house "Northern agitators and nigras"

- Explain why Martin Luther King, Jr. remained a registered Republican to his death;

- Explain the UAW's record on civil rights up until it had to change to keep union leaders out of jail on racketeering charges;

- Please, please, describe South Boston's reasons for resisting integration of public schools so violently that National Guard troops had to be called in, and the local Democratic Party's role in that;

- likewise, the school bus bombings along the Great Lakes in Democrat country.

Split party. Right.

spike59| 9.28.12 @ 6:43AM

Coulter's book WINS, if for no other reason than it made ''Rape-Rape" Whoopi have a public meltdown...i just love it when that dude gets upset

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 4:36PM

spike59. I never considered the question seriously before, but yeah - only a GUY would say that drugging a 13-year old girl, forcing yourself on her, then sending her back to her mom isn't "RAPE rape."

Whoopi Goldberg is obviously packing. How nice of ABC News to make sure a Democratic man has a seat on The View.

Collectivist| 9.28.12 @ 10:20AM

Entitlement = Slavery
Affirmative Action = Jim Crow
Black Panthers = KKK

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 3:44PM

So what your saying is that Social security is = to slavery. LOL, Ayn Rand eventually received Social Security and Medicare payments under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).

spike59| 10.1.12 @ 6:17AM

no, so what he's saying is:

Entitlement = Slavery...your ignorant carp is your own; why is it that you Libtards are so addicted to telling the rest of us what we think (ignoring what we tell you POINT-BLANK) and what we are saying (again, ignoring what we tell you POIN-BLANK)?????

caitlin| 9.28.12 @ 2:51PM

I'm a day late, so I doubt this will be seen. Anyway,
having grown up in a mixed party household and now having some friends (for 40 years) who are both Dem. and Rep., I read as much conservative and liberal info as I can on any issue. The comment sections are especially interesting. Liberals accuse conservatives of the same things conservatives accuse liberals of: lying, bigotry,hate speech, whatever...You know, using hate speech, a liberal accuses conservatives of using hate speech. And vice versa.
My own personal anecdote: I know Tea Party members who still make racist jokes in certain company and get annoyed when a black family moves into the neighborhood. Can they be the only ones? And you're going to tell me that they're the people who want equality for black people? I don't get it.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 3:27PM

You’re a dollar short, too, to the extent that you’re wrong that it won’t be read, and I find fault with what I believe is your premise. Nonetheless, if I might be allowed some additional commentary, please allow me to go back to what I perceived to be the point of the article, wherein Jeffrey Lord, who writes frequently on the issue (and links to those articles in this latest article, in the event that you haven’t read them), is (to some extent) reviewing Ann Coulter’s book on the same topic, which is the record of the Democrat Party on the issues of race and civil rights. While it is common that many who discuss the issue conflate Republican with conservative, and Democrat with liberal, when one looks overall merely at party history, the history of the Democrats on the issue of race is shameful.

As a conservative, I believe this record becomes even more shameful when one considers that during the last 40-50 years, the Left has been attempting to shift the position of the Democrats from the party that discriminated against blacks to the party that discriminates against whites (and/ or the wealthy, or the successful, or the Christians, or what have you), to the detriment of all.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 3:29PM

Regarding race, one can support a colorblind society, or one can advocate for quotas, preferences or whatever you choose to call it to make reparations for past wrongs. It is not really possible to be both. Jeffrey Lord points out in his last paragraph that MLK advocated for a colorblind society. That you might know somebody (or several)in the Tea Party (a grass roots group of political activists not affiliated with one political party, but more frequently linked to Republicans) that meets your definition of racist does not alter that MLK was once a registered Republican.

richard611| 9.28.12 @ 4:36PM

What the conservative conveniently leaves out of its reframing of racial history in the US, particularly in what led up to 60's civil right and voting right legislation is that today's conserves like to pretend that there was only one Democratic party... which was not the case. The southern democrats were more or less segregationist, where as the Northern Democrats were not.

Initially Kennedy pushed for civil right legislation but was filibustered by southern democrats...after Kennedy was assassinated Johnson eventually pushed through a similar version of Kennedy's legislation... as well during Kennedy and Johnson's tenure, both houses of congress were controlled by democrats... and it was essentially democrats who overcame other democrats for Johnson to sign it all into law... as well there were republicans who stood with the segregationist democrats, but since the republicans were a minority it was a Democratic victory.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.28.12 @ 9:25PM

There is no need to re-frame anything. No one is denying the role that some Democrats played in the 1965 Civil Rights Act, which is but one small point on a 110 year Civil Rights timeline (at the time it was passed), in which previously the majority of Democrats by a majority opposed every effort (both legislatively and with violence via the Ku Klux Klan) to improve the lot of slaves or former slaves.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 3:58PM

Caitlin, here's MY personal anecdote as a native Louisianian: I know dozens of lifelong Democrats who make racist jokes pretty much all the time, and who, when it was effectively legal to do so, discriminated against African-Americans every chance they got as officials in government and education ("The advantage of a well-designed tyranny is that it gives every pissant an anthill to piss from" - P.J. O'Rourke).

My anecdote pretty much sums up what Ann Coulter's talking about. And if you don't get that your beloved Democratic Party has waded chin-deep in racism as a lock on power as far north as South Boston, you should adjust your blindfold.

ReaganConservative| 9.29.12 @ 3:53AM

What do the Republicans, or more accurately- Conservatives represent- They represent Individual Freedom, Liberty, the US Constitution, Equal Justice (not social racial injustice) self-reliance, independence, self-motivation, hard work, educational achievement, etc, which all fosters and equates to achieving and maintaining self-esteem, pride, self-confidence, and dignity, ie; personal success- the end result of the Individual pursuit of happiness. Something that religion in those communities preach is what they should strive for. This is the thread that should be associated with them as their core beliefs, that should run through and resonate within their communities.

This is what the message of the Republican Party should be, ie; the truth. That principles and values are what matter, not a political party, (especially not the Democratic party from the time they were established, through the Civil War.. who were the Confederacy- ie; the party that represented slavery and segregation, to today).. which is what makes people successful and happy, not dependency on govt- ie; free stuff.. which is not free.. It comes at a cost, and that cost is their Independence, Freedom, and Liberty.

It's amazing how a people would voluntarily enslave themselves to a political party, that enslaved them physically for centuries.. What sense does that make. None, and is why it is important to correct this stereotype lie, asap.

Vance P. Frickey| 9.30.12 @ 3:46PM

I will have to read Coulter's latest book. I hope she fought the temptation this time to trade outrage for incisiveness, because the overarching theme of the book is actually valid. Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of Planned Parenthood, stressed again and again the absolute necessity to sterilize African-Americans. You can't get much more racist than cutting out the uteri of women because you don't like the color of their skin. Ann... do us all a favor and let the facts speak this time. There are plenty of them and they mostly confirm your point.

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