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the G-man said:
I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't agree with you that Ann's initial remark was clever at all.

Furthermore, when she does stuff like this, she distracts from what serious conservatives said that the CPAC conference, many of who, in fact, disavowed her remarks almost immediately.

She really needs to stop pulling shit like this.




Like I said at the bottom of the previous topic page:

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WB said:
It's not the most clever remark I've ever heard, but it was playful and funny, in the way she implied it without coming right out and saying "John Edwards is a fag".

I'd compare it to remarks Gore made on Saturday Night Live, which despite my not supporting or liking Gore politically, I still found playful and funny.



Though I would agree with you that Coulter's sweeping generalizations and demonization of Democrats/liberals, does allow Democrats to dismissively focus on her more hyperbolically extreme statements, rather than on the serious points she raises.

And Coulter's insulting rhetoric of Edwards, and similar remarks, does a disservice to Republicans as a whole, allowing Democrats to portray all Republicans being as vicious and partisan as Coulter is.

And really, I've always taken pride in the fact that Republicans are more civil and respectful in their rhetoric than the Democrats are. While it's satisfying to see someone like Coulter give Democrats a taste of their own venom, using these tactics ultimately brings her arguments down to the same level as the Democrats she criticizes.

Coulter's remark about the 9-11 widows "enjoying" their husbands' deaths is another example, where her remark gave the Democrat opposition license to bypass her otherwise well-made point, that the widows had exploited their widow-status, to become spokesperson celebrities for the Democrats.
And by going public, the widows had waived their private status, that if they publicly criticized Bush, their arguments and their motives are equally open to counter-criticism. (as opposed to the "beyond reproach" attitude of outrage by Democrats, to fair criticism of the spokesperson 9-11 widows, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha, Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame, etc)