Keeping The Conservatives "Down"

[nfotxn]

Can somebody with experience please assauge the dread in me that the real world takes Ann Coulter seriously? These Neo-Conservative bigots and their cronies drive me nuts and remind me of being in highschool again.

Maybe it's just that I haven't been chatting in public on the Internet much lately. I find myself getting flamed far too easily, although I refuse to fan the flames. At least I can remember that much.

Comments

[jdvsqz.livejournal.com]

If you look real close you can see the mark of the beast on Ann Coulter. Really.

[xkot.livejournal.com]

Even most of the hardcore conservatives think Coulter is a nutjob. Fortunately her brand of crazy is hard to overlook.

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

i'd like to think that most people don't take her all that seriously...she's kind of the howard stern of conservative pundits. she's good for entertainment value b/c you never know what's going to come out of her mouth, which is why all the talk shows love her so much.

[cartmatt.livejournal.com]

No one takes her seriously anymore. Her latest book talks about how misunderstood Joe McCarthy was! And if you take her, um, for the sake of argument, let's just call it logic, then every Democrat in this country should be executed. Now I'm sure some Republicans would find humor in this, but people like her just exist to make the loony right seem less loony. If you're slightly to the left of Ann -- and who isn't? -- your positions look less extreme by comparison. So she DOES serve a purpose, other than just masturbation fodder for fundementalist adolescents...

Ayn Rand

[abearius.livejournal.com]

Ayn Rand is another nut job that people don't take seriously. Well, not people like you or me, naturally. But Ayn Rand clubs all over the USA attract the dweeby and the spoiled-rotten to their ranks. In other words, don't be too confident that common sense will win. I live in a state that just elected Arnold Schwartzenegger for governor, so my faith in the common sense of the people is a bit thin.

People like Coulter have an insidious effect: they lower the level of acceptable public discourse and debate. They introduce outrageous possibilities as desirable. They provide dismissive, witty answers to complex problems without the slightest desire to learn anything deeper than an encyclopedia article's-worth of information about those issues. They make decorum look almost impotently quaint, and now we have a president who acts with impunity.

But I digress. Anne Coulter is the price we pay for a free society.

[furrychub510.livejournal.com]

I think Coulter could more accurately be described as a paleo-conservative. Most neo-conservatives are former liberals who switched sides. She's no worse than Michael Moore though. A pox on both their houses.

[brianrdu.livejournal.com]

She's painted herself into a corner, thankfully. I can't think of anyone else (not in a position of power) that I simply loathe so much. She recently came to the campus of UNC Chapel Hill (why they'd ever let that happen I do not know) and blasted everything in sight, specifically the students that opposed her at the mic...I had a daydream recently that I was at that appearance and got up there and blasted her back with facts and she started coming unglued and lost all composure. Did I say I hate her already?

[callingzero.livejournal.com]

If you read the Drudge Report, their wacky conservative advertisers have a pop-up ad for a talking Ann Coulter doll... as well as a Pilot Photo-op George W.

Both look really flimsy; I'd like to inquire what continent the sweatshop is in.

I think she says stuff like, "Math is hard."

Re: Ayn Rand

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

"Randroids"

Re: Ayn Rand

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

But I digress. Anne Coulter is the price we pay for a free society.

So graciously put, I must say as soon as I read this I did feel better.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I'd buy one if it didn't mean supporting such poltical childishness!

Re: Ayn Rand

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, Ayn Rand. We have an "objectivist" Club at waterloo. The very name itself I find arrogant.

It's generally a philosephy all about masturbating stock brokers, and generally denying that power itself exitsts. If I can shit on you, then there's nothing wrong with it because obviously it means I can afford to do so.

Yes I went to a guest lecture. *Shudder* I'll stop there.

Actually, I think the whole movement is rather basic within an orwelian referance frame. Simply the wealthy and the powerful jockying to retain their place from the upper middle class. Meanwhile the poor have still been used for generations.

I guess that's the crux of how insideous the "philosephy" is. They act like they're privey to some sort epiphany.

Alright, I'm done this time, for Real.

"The Dweeby and the Spoiled Rotten" - I love it.


-Aaron (Brodies older brother - who's still stuck in Canada)

[(Anonymous)]

So I looke up this Coultier.

Wow - another conservative cliche "I come from a privilaged background, and I fear change".

Actually the article was mind bogglingly immature. It's hard to believe that there are actual adults that take this person seriously?

Smile, lean back, and remember Chomsky's way of saying "No - you're wrong" to these people.

-Aaron