Ann Coulter should not speak at CPAC
After last year’s remarks, calling Muslims “ragheads” and this year’s remark, calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC, Ann Coulter has solidified her reputation as a bigoted, loud-mouthed shock pundit whom true conservatives should ostracize.
As I watched her on C-SPAN today I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. On national television Coulter went out of her way to use a word that has no use, other than to hurt, offend and degrade. It wasn’t funny, and it wasn’t cute. It was stupid. The sad part is that some self-professed conservatives clapped and laughed and cheered for her. Shame on them.
CPAC should not invite Coulter back to speak, and organizations should not promote her as a writer nor as a speaker. I used to recommend her to students as a resource, but I will no longer do so.
Segregation is so fifties… or so I thought
Even more disturbing were conversations I had at a bar in Adams Morgan later on. There were a handful of kids wearing George Wallace buttons who were extolling the virtues of segregation and saying blacks and Hispanics had lower intelligence quotients. Their racism clearly influenced their views on illegal immigration policy. By the way, these guys were the loudest supporters of Tom Tancredo for president.
How, in 2007, anyone could hold such views and proudly display the image of a man (George Wallace) who represents hatred, discrimination and white supremacy is beyond me.
I certainly do not want to be associated with such ideas. Their thinking is tribalist, collectivist and deterministic. It stems from the identity politics and conflict theory that Marx devised and his intellectual descendants promote. How anyone who holds such anti-freedom and anti-individualist ideas can call themselves conservatives is perplexing. The whole reason conservatives should oppose affirmative action and multiculturalism is because we base our judgments of people on their individual merits, and not on their artificial “ethnic group.”
This was the first CPAC I attended and it very well could be the last if Ms. Coulter, Mr. Tancredo and their minions continue to hold center stage.
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I feel it’s both unfair and irresponsible to attack Tom Tancredo as you did.
I don’t recall Tancredo making any racist comments, and if there were any inaccuracies in what I considered to be a great speech I encourage you to point them out. Nor can you associate him with Ann Coulter’s comments? How he has any connection to what she said is still a mystery to me, and it would be the equivalent of attacking Barack Obama for his lack of morality because of President Clinton’s sex scandals. Doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Lastly, there will always be a group of supporters for ANY CANDIDATE AT ALL who may not represent or embody accurately the ideals of that candidate. A group of young, perhaps misguided individuals cannot be tied to Tancredo himself.
Tancredo delivered an excellent, accurate speech and emphasized his conservative credentials. It is unfortunate more conservatives don’t rally around him, Duncan Hunter, and/or Ron Paul instead of the newly found conservatives that comprise the ‘top-tier’. He was only one of 25 Republicans who stood up and refused to vote in favor of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, and one of the handful of Republicans who opposed No Child Left Behind. He is a strong supporter of the individual and I hope that you will not continue to slander his candidacy even if you don’t decide to support it.
God Bless, take care.
ACU Ratings for the Likely 2008 Presidential Candidates
Republicans
Name Lifetime Rating 2005 Rating
Representative Tom Tancredo (CO) 99 100
Senator Sam Brownback (KS) 95 100
Senator George Allen (VA) 92 100
Representative Duncan Hunter (CA) 92 92
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (GA) 90 N/A
Senator Chuck Hagel (NE) 86 96
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (TN) 89 92
Senator John McCain (AZ) 83 80