What do you think about ANN COULTER's ideology????

Question

tell the reason

Answer 1

So called "liberals" are no more "the enemy" than are the folks who stood up against McCarthyism in the 1950's. Read your history! The people who drive social change and much needed policy redirection are those who disagree with the mainstream of popularity. Ann Coulter can have as many opinions as she would like, but if she is going to make claims that incite or reward hatred and intolerance, let her be subjected to the same rigorous standards as scientists and historians. Her claims do not hold up to scrutiny, and her attacks on innocent people are nothing less than vicious.

Personally, I feel that if she bit my dog, I would be worried about the dog contracting an incurable form of rabies. In this battle over whose side is "right" and whoses side is "wrong" (read:left), the victims are those caught in the middle trying to use criticial thinking and evidence to determine best courses of action and make tough decisions. It is said it is 100 times easier to criticize than to create. I challenge the followers critical of "liberal" policy to create more compassion in the world with the ego-centric, exclusionary policies that marginalize entire groups that the "conservatives" seem to favor? Stop attacking people and realize that we are all in this together, and we all want the same things for our children. We just see different ways to get there.

Answer 2

I really don't think Ann Coulter has an "ideology" per se.
She does what she does and says what she says to
promote herself.

She does conservatives a great deal of disservice by making
them look sound-bite oriented and ignorant.

Conservatism and liberalism are simply two different
models for making decisions about the same problems.
The more models you approach a problem with, the
better your solution is likely to be.

Answer 3

Ann Coulter's ideology is about getting attention and making money, it is not at all about conservative politics.

She is an attention whore, who may at one time have honestly believed in conservative principles, but who has gotten a taste of the heroin of fame and like a junky, has to go further and further to get that next fix, to the point that she's tossed all of her principles to the wind and stopped actually defending a point of view, preferring instead to simply malign one she disagrees with.

And, you'll note, she rarely even attacks the SUBSTANCE of a liberal (or non neo-conservative) argument, she goes for the ad hominem attack.

She would call me a liberal, when in fact I'm very much a centrist, who believes that both liberal and conservative philosophies have their place in human existance, and who also believes that neither major party represents anything like the conservative or liberal goals they purport to.

But as long as people respond and it gets her book sales and chances to speak on the television, Ms. Coulter will continue to write more and more slanderous, outlandish and (it appears) plagerized prose.

What this country really needs is to return to substantive debate of the issues and what it'll take to fix the problems we face, not mud slinging, hoping we can tar the other guy worse than he can tar us so that we win regardless of whether our argument is the stronger one (or even has any logical merit at all).

In the words of Keith Olbermann, Ann Coulter, today's Worst Person in the World.

Answer 4

Ann Coulter's ideology is conservatism. Mine is too. I think of her as a highly decorated and valiant soldier is the battle to get conservative viewpoints out there. She is a satirist. This is necessary to get her thoughts broadcast. Everytime she writes a new book I think of it as another grenade launched and another hill taken by the conservatives. She is oh so smart, fun and fabulous and I wish I could have her over for dinner!

Answer 5

She is a female Dick Cheney, and the very thought of her makes my blood boil! She is, like our current administration, Fascist in ideology, ignorant and insensitive in thought and word, and criminally negligent in action! If you have read her or followed her at all, EVERY SENTENCE is full of blame for Bill Clinton (I personally think she's just jealous, because he is the ONLY man in Washington who was too intelligent to be HOSED BY HER!), and she is intent on diverting the blame for everything to Progressives, when responsibility is at a standstill in Washington!! She needs to grow a conscience, and to have the doctors change her reproductive organs back to a vagina!! She is the most vindictive and vicious bi**h on the planet! But I don't want to say what I REALLY feel about her!!

Answer 6

I despise Ann Coulter, mostly because what she says makes no sense whatsoever. She is anti-feminism, yet she is an arguably intelligent, independent woman. This new book of hers: I don't even know what to say about it. The Church of Liberalism? WHAT?!?!?!?! It's so absurd you can't even argue with it. Genius, really.
Generally, I have no respect for her. She is really just doing what she's doing to gain publicity and piss people off.

Answer 7

I am conservative and I sometimes have agreed with substance of what she says. (I don't buy her books and the most talking I've ever heard her do was when she participated in a panel debate on the subject of the authority of the Supreme Court, 10/25/03.)
But I am very concerned about her high level of cynicism. She is waaaaaaaay to cynical. And that cynicism is what makes her one of the worst -- to me -- spokespersons for conservative causes.

Answer 8

I probably agree with her slightly less than 75% of the time. She is SO far to the right on some issues that she scares even me.

I do believe her views on the media, abortion, personal attacks, gun control, crime and punishment, and judges are right on.

I prefer reading Larry "The Libertarian" Elder's books.

Answer 9

Ann Coulter is not an idealogue. She is a comedian. Take her as nothing more, and she'll piss you off a lot less.

Answer 10

I think she is kook! Her thinking is soooooooo extreme and who knows what the real ideaology is.........she knows what she is saying will have the effect that is does. She knows her behavior will sell books. I think what is really scary is the number of people who jump on her band wagon! It's scary that she is given so many opportunities to spout her rhetoric and is catering to a section of the U.S. that seems to feel that we need to go back 100 years to be safe!