Great job.

What does Ann Coulter say that isn’t faulty and what “facts” are true? That would take a lot less time. As much as I dislike Al Franken, his criticisms of Ann Coulter are right on the money. She can’t go two paragraphs without an ad hominen attack or a blatant falsehood, and she’s a disgrace to *real* conservatism. She and the Regnery bunch are a laughingstock. If she and Michael Moore were to suddenly disappear, political discourse in this country would instantly be elevated.

Ann doesn’t try to be nice to anybody, she tells it as she sees it, and is not afraid to take on the PC jerks of the world. Her points in Treason about how the Dems ran the Vietnam war were right on, and her comparison of FDR to Bush at the beginning of that book were spot on.

The lady has tremendous guts and courage to stand out there and say what she and everybody else knows, that many people think. Islamicists are not the religion of peace, they have to be dealt with. At this very moment, in the Christmas season, all we seem to see are PC groups attempting to shut down a celebration of Christianity, while basically forcing just about everything else down our throats, in the name of diversity. Who else but Ann Coulter would dare to speak out against that??

Wish I could point you to a good transcript, but check out these:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/000832.php
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/000830.php
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/000834.php
(I must admit that the resemblance between Pelosi & Gollum is striking)

As for Ann, she serves as a useful foil againt Moore, Franken, Garafolo. No sense in playing nice with people that specialize in ad-hominen attacks, you have to cut them off at the legs.

Come on, you have to admit that these folks are worse than hyperbolic blithering idiots, they can’t even serve up a sharp riposte with flair.

Also, I didn’t see Pelosi’s rebuttal speech. If it was a bad as you say it was, then I’d say she is out there.
Anyway, I’ll go try to find a transcript.

Either way, I can see where you’re coming from a little better now, but, looking back at where we came from, I still think Ann Coulter is wrong.

I often wonder what Laura Bush thought about that particular column. She must have cringed.

You forgot about Nixon and Agnew.

I only mentioned those who by today’s standard would be considered conservative, given their positions back then — include Moinihan & Inyouye in the modern day DINOs group. I’m fully aware that there are conservatives, moderates & liberals in each party.

Liberman’s problem is that he’s too conservative for the Move-On crowd, otherwise he’s just another moderate dem — certainly not a Reagan Democrat, i.e. conservative democrat. As for reps, he’d still be too liberal.

Speaking of Reagan Democrats, it sure sounded weird, almnost offensive, to hear sKerry co-opt Reagan’s name. All the same, I’m wondering why the MSM isn’t talking now about the Bush Democrats?

I’m lucky if I can even quote a single sentence from any of my favorite movies. I just know when I hear/see it, if I like it, I do, and if I don’t, I don’t, but I may not be able to point to exactly why. This is the same with most politicians, I just have a mental gage based on certain metrics and their competence/goodness/worthiness rises and falls depending on what they say/do.

Do you reckon that sKerry inadvertantly spoke the truth that the dems voted to give Bush authority as a show of force and to suck up to the security moms, but they never intended for him to actually do so? Either Bush didn’t understand their wink-wink or chose to ignore it, thus taking unfair advantage of their political game. I guess that’s the danger of being a political weathervane — they tend to get so spun around, they no longer know which way a strong wind is blowing.

FWIW; I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, so count me as one of the 4 mil disenfranchised Evangelicals. Actually, it was only in the final stretch that I began to regret not re-registering since I came back from Europe. I also didn’t vote to re-elect his daddy, “throwing” my vote to Perot. However, in 96 I truly had to abstain, Perot was the lunatic fringe, Dole was lame and Willy was too slick, but those were the only choices on the ballot.

Anyhoo, back to the liberal/conservative dems. Long time ago, in a far away era, Biden was a POTUS contender; socially liberal, but hawkish on foreign policy.

But to hear/see him for the past 6 years, it’s obvious that his schtick is to march in lockstep on the right-most column of the dem phlanx, wherever it may roam. This tracking phenonmen remained true even when it looked like sKerry might actually win. And to think he was a serious contender in my book for a while back then, except for that pro-choice thing.

With Dodd, Kohl, Harkin & Reid, they may be moderately “conservative”, but they also have some hare-brained bills with their names on it or other issues. Besides, even Clinton was calling for regime change in Iraq, so as far as I’m concerned, going to war in Iraq is not a consevative vs liberal issue, rather survival vs letting a mad dog loose.

As for Pelosi, give me a break! She might as well be a clone of Tom Daschle. Remember him? She is constantly out there on the fringe. I checked her out when she became the first female to hold the post.

Unfortunately, there’s no there there. Just another token shrill. Do you recall her weird and incoherent post State of the Union rebuttal speech?

If anyone was in doubt about her moderatism/professionalism that speech should have sunk that notion like a pair of concrete shoes. Her performance was rather like a girl fight, albeit shadow boxing. If the dems are serious about making inroads with the red states/moral crowd, they need to shunt her out of the limelight. I love watching her talk, knowing that everytime she opens her mouth, another DINO or two bails out.

These days, I can only look at most dems and say to myself, ‘glad I didn’t vote for them’. Maybe we should blame it on PC, the more PC one tries to be the more inchorent and frustrated they become.

Where, oh where have the Tip O’Neills gone?

As an aside, going back to Scoop Jackson, I sometimes wonder if it was a communist plot to assassinate democratic hawks or if it was a long-term moonbat conspiracy towards a party takeover.

Unfortunately, no credible evidence have been forthcoming since the limited opening of Kremlin/Lubyanka files. So maybe it was just an honest mistake that the USSR shot down a Korean 747 that just happened to have Scoop and several other mid-level bureaucrats on board for looking like a NC/RC-135, despite one look-see pass.

Too bad Scoop wasn’t around to stop Clinton and Gore from wreaking damage to the Whitehouse and to prevent the moonbat takeover. Oh well, life’s full of mysteries.

Intolerant republicans never accept the truth about their party. As soon as they do, they become democrats.

You can’t help but laugh at the gal’s provocative chutpah. To her credit, while she criticizes and skewers blacks like Jesse Jackson, Sharpton etc, she is an equal opportunity disser, and I have not detected any of the broad-brush race baiting some conservatives of similar style use. That in itself makes her unique. It is all too easy to go that route. For now at least, Ann racks up the laughs with hip, pithy, pointed and pungent writing while keeping the faith with black conservatives.

What makes people hate her even more is her stringy, catty, blonde vampish appearance, contradicted or perhaps enhanced, when she wears that slinky black dress. Some guys either want to kiss the woman, or smash her face. LOL!

Thank you for the reply, but I still gotta disagree.

Kennedy certainly would be considered more conservative in comparison to today’s Democratic party. I’m in agreement upon that. But was he considered liberal back then? There’s disagreement on that, but I think he’s no Goldwater.

And as for today… you still buy the whole “Liberman is too conservative bit”? I’ll grant that he was the most conservative of the Democratic Presidential candidates, but that’s not saying much. Do you really think his positions on the environment, gun control, economic policy, etc. are conservative? Had he won the nomination, I think the Republican activists would have tried to paint him as a traitor too.

Also, I don’t happen to think he’s the only liberal congressman like this. I certainly don’t view Senators such as Biden, Kohl, Dodd, Harkin, and the new Senate Minority leader Reid as right-wingers or even centrists (they all tend to have ADA ratings in the 80-100 range), and they all voted for giving Bush the Authority to go to war in Iraq. Among all Senate Democrats, 29 voted to, 21 didn’t. This is hardly consistent with the idea that the Democratic party is controlled by the MoveOn crowd. I’m not saying there are no hard-core doves influencing the party, but I hardly think they are as prominent as the RNC wants us to think they are.

Also, as a side note, I’m just wondering why you think Pelosi is so out there. Ever since she became House minority leader, people have been ragging on her. Yeah, she’s real liberal. Is that it? I mean, if she made outrageous comments like Michael Moore did, I’d understand. But portraying her as the devil incarnate just because of her voting record… I’d just be interested in knowing.

Take care.