printMy WND colleague Vox Day wants to know “where was Miss Coulter when the McCain-Palin ticket suspended its Republican presidential campaign to help the Bush administration collude with the Democratic Senate to ram TARP down the throats of a protesting American public?”
“Cowering frauds,” writes Vox—with reference to Ann Coulter’s term for libertarians who do not want a department of marriage affairs to be added to the Federal Frankenstein in enforcing morality—“is a term that is best reserved for Republicans, who preach fiscal responsibility while repeatedly raising the debt ceiling, who talk about the importance of respecting the law while permitting Wall Street to openly violate it at will, and who claim to advocate personal freedom while staunchly supporting a futile Prohibition that saw three times more Americans arrested for drugs last year than were arrested in 1980.”
Check the WND archives for the two months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. Miss Coulter was too busy cheering on the Red Faction of the bifactional ruling party in a futile attempt to elect John McCain to bother speaking out against the Republican elite’s rejection of economic reality, small government principles, the U.S. Constitution and the American people. On the other hand, WorldNetDaily’s two libertarians, Ilana Mercer and myself, wrote no less than 10 columns attacking TARP and the treacherous Bush bailouts during those two months. When viewed from this perspective, Ann Coulter calling libertarians ‘”cowardly frauds” looks rather like Anthony Weiner calling Pope Benedict XVI a perverted exhibitionist.
Coulter, Palin, McCain, et al, are all neo-cons with their pro-war, pro-Patriot Act mentality. If Paul or Johnson are not nominated by the GOP, I will definitely vote a 3rd party…which one I have no idea currently. If Paul and Johnson were true to their principles and neither one nominated, I would hope each would immediately work together to run as 3rd party candidates or at worst “write-ins”. Could they win…NO…but the leverage they would create AGAINST the GOP would clearly either create a new GOP or destroy it. Either way, it would still be good for the nation.
I called her a partisan scribe on this very site some months ago.
The criticism is still valid.
Coulter, Palin, and McCain are quite diverse in their positions, actually. McCain is not even a party player–and grossly unpredictable (meaning–predictably contradictory). Coulter is definitely partisan. And Palin, given her head-butting against Republican Alaska, I don’t think we can say is terribly partisan. These three are not alike, at all. Coulter, is carefully Republican, maybe even “establishment” Republican. She never liked McCain, only Pali–probably a female thing, which is what it is. None of them are neo-con whatsoever, by definition (of “neo-con”). It think it is important to be fair in these assessments.
Yes, Coulter’s not much when it comes to political economy…just your average neo-con. Still, she does understand that man-woman marriage is basic to civilization, which is more than I can say for moral-anarchist libertarians. Abortion, porn, homosex, euthanasia, stem cell, pedophilia, bestiality, drugs = Culture of Death.
Coulter is, first and foremost, a cultural warrior and uber-sarcastic hitwoman on secular humanistic “liberal” Democrats. Vox Day wrote an excellent column. Nevertheless, it is somewhat discouraging how year after year, decade after decade, the Booboisie (American public) gets continually deluded into believing that these “Conservative Republicans” are going to ever ever ever bring smaller government. Name some program they really cut??
Hell, Clinton got us out of Somalia, reformed welfare, and nearly balanced the budget. That alone makes him better than the Medicare-exapanding Tarpologist Leaving No Child Behind TSA-creating Bush.
As for Obama, I fail to see why the Republicans hate him and the Democrats love him considering he has been widening wars all over the ying yang, and out TARPing Bush, and nationalizing Romneycare.
Gay marriage is a silly side-show distraction while this country slides into bankruptcy and dictatorship. It would be a complete non-issue if the government were not intimately involved in every family and personal economic decision thanks to the tax code, Socialistic Insecurity, and Medicare. .
As for the debt ceiling “crisis”, if Congress authorizes the spending without the taxation to match it, then it has de jure AUTHORIZED THE TREASURY TO ISSUE THE DEBT.
I’m certainly glad to see we still have George Bush to blame for everything including bad weather. It works for Obama so why not everybody else? That George Bush loused up the works is no secret. But he’s not the enemy now. As I recall with no choice other than John Kerry or Al Gore voting for Bush was about all we had. I know we get nose bleeds about neo-cons and other impure players but we need to spend all this energy ridding the country of the main enemy who is the liberal, socialist left. If we can get that done we might just save the country. Then we can impress everybody with our insight and eloquence and purge the neo-con pretenders from the ranks of the pure at heart. By the way, who do we like? I already know who we don’t like.