Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, March 04, 2007 3:58:54 PM
Is It Time For Conservatives To Get Vicious?
Two
stories have surfaced in recent days which clearly indicate that the
definition of what is considered viciousness in politics needs to be
examined.
On his HBO program
Real Time this past Friday, Bill
Maher asked his panel why it was necessary for the
Huffington
Post to remove comments by readers regarding their disappointment that
the recent assassination attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney failed.
During the course of the conversation,
Maher went over the top by saying in effect that the world would be a safer place if the attempt had succeeded.
Also on Friday, political pundit Ann
Coulter,
speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, raised some
eyebrows and a little laughter when she said "I was going to have a few
comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards,
but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word
'faggot', so I - so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about
Edwards."
Coulter is taking heat from both the right and the left for her remarks. John McCain, Rudy
Giuliani
and Mitt Romney have all denounced her comments. And of course,
democrats are seething, although the Edwards campaign took the
opportunity to raise donations, referring to contributions as "
Coulter cash".
There is a tremendous difference between the remarks by
Coulter and
Maher.
Maher implying that Cheney's assassination should have succeeded is by far more despicable than anything that
Coulter could ever have uttered. Yet there is virtual silence regarding
Maher's vitriol from anyone on the left, while
Coulter has been getting it with both barrels from people on both sides of the aisle.
Perhaps
it would benefit conservatives to start becoming more vicious. For far
too long, those on the right have taken the high road when it comes to
political discourse. Maybe we need more people like
Coulter
to start ramming epithets down the throats of these liberal monsters
who have made the politics of personal destruction their mission.
Maniacs like Terry
McAuliffe, Al
Franken
and Howard Dean have lashed out in angry dialogue against conservatives
virtually unchecked, while every comment regarding the left is expected
to be couched in political correctness.
No more. It's time for the Right to get angry. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get down in the mud with these knuckle
draggers and start giving them a taste of their own medicine
unapologetically. Let's start calling a spade a spade and expose the evil of the Left once and for all.
I applaud Ann
Coulter for the
cojones
she displayed in ripping John Edwards. I hope she continues to let the
liberals have it at every available opportunity. And I sincerely hope
more conservatives will wake up and start speaking out.
Ann
Coulter...you go, girl!
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