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Coulter Brings Conservative Rebuttal to Wyoming
By not in system - AOL NewsLARAMIE, Wyo. -- Ann Coulter delivered her edgy brand of conservatism to a mostly receptive audience at the University of Wyoming Thursday night, where memories are still fresh of the school's controversial handling last year of a former 1960s radical's speech. About 1,500 people, including about three dozen protesters, showed up to hear her talk and question-and-answer session, which started an hour late because of a flight delay. The conservative commentator and author used her customary sharp wit to criticize liberals and the Obama administration. A few in attendance heckled Coulter ...
More Conservatives Are Questioning the Afghanistan War
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe list of conservatives who are questioning our involvement in Afghanistan is growing. As Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy magazine reported: "Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist said he wants to build a center-right coalition to advocate for considering pulling out of Afghanistan in order to save the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent there." One of the first prominent conservatives to sound the alarm on Afghanistan was Tony Blankley, a columnist and press secretary for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Blankley has written several columns on the topic ...
Are Social Conservatives Losing Clout -- or Just the Gay Debate?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySocial conservative groups (which I would distinguish from rank-and-file social conservatives) don't have the juice they used to. Nobody on the right wants to admit this publicly, but they've lost clout in recent years. The most recent example occurred when social conservatives couldn't keep GOProud -- a gay conservative group -- from continuing its affiliation with the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Whether you think this is a good or bad thing is not the point here.) As National Journal's Reid Wilson wrote: Social conservatives, including the National Organization for ...
Three Things I Got Wrong in 2010 (So Far, Anyway . . .)
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe Washington Examiner's Tim Carney has issued a challenge on Twitter: "I propose a new tradition for bloggers/online writers: an end-of-year post going over three things you got wrong in the past year." Well Mr. Carney -- challenge accepted. Here are three of my mistakes in 2010: 1. The "I'm You" ad: I think my biggest obvious mistake was in praising Christine O'Donnell's controversial TV ad. As I wrote, If you ask me, the ad is spot on. It accomplishes exactly what O'Donnell needs to do -- it helps put the gaffes behind her, and reassures voters that she passes the credibility test. ...
Is the GOP in the Closet About Backing Gay Rights?
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 13) -- A federal judge's order to halt enforcement of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was hailed by gay activists as a landmark ruling in their struggle to expand their rights. But something else made the case significant: The group that filed the lawsuit was the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay advocacy organization. And the policy U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ruled unconstitutional? It was the brainchild of the Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who nominated her. Seventeen years after Clinton hashed out a compromise with conservatives that has led to ...
Ann Coulter Defends Carl Paladino's Anti-Gay Remarks
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- Did Carl Paladino's recent anti-gay remarks win him votes? Ann Coulter seems to think so. Coulter paid a visit to "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday evening to defend Paladino, the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate, no stranger to controversy himself, who has come under fire for staunchly critical (arguably bigoted) comments he made about homosexuality during a speech given to a summit of Orthodox Jewish leaders on Sunday. "'I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't ...
Ann Coulter Blasts 'Fake Christians' for Opposing Her Speech to GOP Gays
By David Gibson - Politics DailyFirst, Glenn Beck throws in the white flag on gay marriage, as Politics Daily reported earlier this month, and now Ann Coulter has gone AWOL on what just a short time ago was considered a battle flag issue for conservative culture warriors. The latest controversy on the right began late last week when it was revealed that Coulter, the brutally straight-talking author and pundit, was going to headline next month's HomoCon 2010, an annual event organized by GOProud, a group of gay Republicans. Coulter has been called "notoriously homophobic" by some critics, but she has also described ...
Ann Coulter Applauded by Young Conservatives for 'HomoCon' Speech
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyNews that conservative columnist Ann Coulter would speak at "HomoCon 2010," an event organized by the conservative gay group GOProud, prompted conservative outlet WorldNetDaily to drop her from speaking at one of its upcoming events. Coulter defended her decision to accept the invitation, saying, "They hired me to give a speech, so I'm giving a speech. . . . I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don't endorse their views." But while she may have lost a WND speaking gig over it, most young conservatives I spoke to defended Coulter's ...
Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity: 'Andrew Breitbart Was Set Up'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAppearing on Fox News' "Hannity" Wednesday night, Ann Coulter told Sean Hannity that Andrew Breitbart was "set up," meaning he was intentionally given a tape that misrepresented Shirley Sherrod's comments. As the video below shows, Coulter told Hannity: "The whole key to this story is that Andrew Breitbart was set up. He was sent a tape that, as we now know, was massively out of context. It did look like this woman was saying something racist. When she first said it was taken out of context . . . we've heard that before from politicians telling racist jokes. This is the first time in world ...
Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAnn Coulter's recent column "Bill Kristol Must Resign" may have officially kicked off the next great schism within the conservative movement. At issue is the war in Afghanistan -- and, more specifically, whether Republicans should support President Obama's approach to a conflict that has now lasted for Americans far longer than World War II. Mocking neoconservatives, Coulter wrote: "Bill Kristol [editor of The Weekly Standard] and Liz Cheney have demanded that [Michael] Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't ...
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