Congressional candidate Maggie Brooks raised a few eyebrows recently when she attended a local luncheon where the keynote speaker was Conservative personality-assassin Ann Coulter. For my money, Coulter is the worst of the worst, a smug malignancy with a pathological thirst for glory.
Here are a couple of examples of Coulter’s “wisdom”:
On the 9/11 widows who were critical of the Bush administration:
“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s deaths so much.” (http://loop21.com/top-5-craziest-or-most-racist-ann-coulter-quotes)
The “backbone of the Democratic Party” is a “typical fat, implacable welfare recipient”— syndicated column 10/29/99. (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0111.coulterwisdom.html)
So when we had Brooks in the office last week, I asked how the Coulter visit fits in with her vision of a kinder, gentler Congress. She said that all she did was attend a luncheon and that she had nothing to do with bringing Coulter to Rochester.
“It was a fund-raiser for the local Republican Party,” Brooks said. “They didn’t ask my permission. I attended as a supporter of the party, not as a supporter of Ann Coulter. I don’t agree with everything she says.”
“I probably go to 10 to 12 luncheons a year where I absolutely disagree with the speaker and I never get to say so,” Brooks added. “And I don’t get beaten up for attending.”
This article appears in Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2012.
“I was just following orders.”
Curious excuse. Is it Maggie’s claim that no matter what the content, speaker or message- as long as it’s a fundraiser she supports- she will attend and be immune from guilt by association?
Are there any fund raisers she would refuse to go to? A KKK rally? An anti-Semitic speaker? A birther rally?
If there are any fund raisers she would reject then she is obviously choosing to SUPPORT a speaker and/or message.
As usual the party of “personal accountability” are never themselves accountable. Do as I say, not as I do.
So Maggie, were Congresswoman Slaughter to attend a Democratic fund raiser for which Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the guest speaker may we assume that you would permit Louise to avail herself of the same “innocent bystander” excuses?
Unlike the authoress of this post and the other dumb commenters, I’ve actually had the privilege of hearing Ms. Coulter speak in person on a couple of occasions (not locally and certainly not at the mentioned event).
In person she’s electrifying, brilliant, uproariously funny, and lethally effective at taking down the smarmy pieties of both the mainstream liberal establishment and the moonbat far left. It is for her truth-telling superpowers that she is so despised by the usual suspects.
In your heart you know she’s right, moonbats.
“The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.”
“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. ”
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
So j.a.m., should we consider sentiments such as the above as examples of Coulter’s “truth-telling superpowers ” ?
In 1964 when Barry Goldwater trotted out the slogan, “In your heart you know he’s right”, the Democrats responded with “In your guts you know he’s nuts”. Looks like it’s time to change the gender on that comment.