Elizabeth Edwards Challenges Ann Coulter About Personal Attacks
Elizabeth Edwards yesterday called in to Chris Matthew’s show to confront Ann Coulter for her personal attacks on her husband. I am no supporter of John Edwards, there is no way I will vote for him for president. But I am fully on Elizabeth Edward’s side here in taking on Ann Coulter.
Regarding the things that Coulter says and writes, Elizabeth Edwards said:
It debases political dialogue. It drives people away from the process. We can’t have a debate about issues if you’re using this kind of language.
And Ann Coulter hurts the causes of conservatives by her nastiness. She makes conservative positions on issues seem suspect. Her knife-fighting rhetoric may keep her in the news, and help her sell her columns and books, but it hurts the modern conservative movement that took shape under Ronald Reagan.
On this site I often complain of the intolerance of so many on the left. Ann Coulter reminds us that intolerance is no stranger to many on the right either. Her writings constantly question the morality of her political opponents. She talks of them as being so loathsome that she apparently feels justified in saying almost anything about them.
Ann Coulter needs more forceful criticisms from nationally prominent conservatives to try to reduce some of the harm that she does to their goals.
I don’t know why people like Ann Coulter (on the right) and Rosie O’Donnell (on the left) continue to get microphones on the national stage. Are these the best prominent females that Big Media can come up with for debating important national issues? There are much wiser and more tolerant women out there. I wish their voices could be heard instead.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
As someone who’d like to hide Coulter under a rock, she was taken completely out of context regarding the terrorist quote. It also comes to no shock to me that Edwards is using this selective quote to try and raise money.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Coulter tells it like it is, like it or not. The PC crowd of which you have fallen into only like people that say ‘feel good’ things. Feel good and truth are seperated by a wide canyon. I’ll bet she has no regrets and loses no sleep about the simple minded that ‘won’t’ understand where she’s coming from. Most times the truth is much harder to swallow than a lie. Democrats live on lies or there would be no democrats.
July 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Scrapiron,
“The PC crowd of which you have fallen into …”
I don’t believe that I abide by many things said to be PC. If you define being politically correct as holding back from character attacks on liberals, then I guess I am guilty. You may think that all liberals and Democrats are vile human beings and that they are all liars, but I just disagree.
Since I emphasize tolerance of those you disagree with, I am surprised you are interested in reading NoSpeedBumps.