Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Delicious.
Here is Ann Coulter's take on yesterday's election. She is not a good writer, and her facility with irony, sarcasm and metaphor has never been very strong. But this reads like a drunken rant. None of it makes any sense, except, I assume, to Ms. Coulter herself.
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Well, let's be real: given the absolutely paranoid gerrymandering that took place all over the country in 2000, it's an absolute miracle the Dems managed to overcome and pick up 30 seats. It's actually a testament to how angry the elecorate really is.
It's like she's trying to do a cross between Joan Rivers and Rush Limbaugh.... No offense, Joan.
Ms. Cornelius is right: The Democrats won every race that could possibly be contested, and a few that really should have been incumbent locks (see the Iowa 2nd District, where Jim Leach got canned, for example).
A couple of years with actual non-partisan redistricting and really good voting procedures, and we might make even more progress....
Ick! I feel contaminated by her venom just from reading that! Why can't she and all the other right wing-nuts out there realize that this had far less to do with the war and everything to do with voters getting fed up with the immoral hypocrisy of the so-called moral GOP? Thank God my state recognized that Healey was Romney-lite and elected Deval Patrick! Now if only my students would connect things like higher local taxes and student loan interest rates with voting!
Also, the Dems now have as many seats as the Reps did at their high water mark during Clinton's 2nd term. She's conveniently forgetting that we picked up quite a few last time out.
There's a reason she doesn't have comments enabled on her columns.
In some cases, gerrymandering by GOP legislatures may have helped the Dems. After 2000 in Kansas, for example, the GOP tried to gerrymand Dennis Moore out of a seat (KS-03). In the process, they made Jim Ryun's seat (KS-02) less safe.
Oops!
Now if only my students would connect things like higher local taxes and student loan interest rates with voting!
D*** straight! Mine think being Republican is cooler, and "conservative" means serious ... even as they espouse which would logically put them on the other side of the fence. Others "don't like politics" and so are not registered to vote, or do not remember. This is why my congressional candidate lost, by a huge margin - although I like to think that the simple fact of his being the candidate, with no PAC money, strong antiwar stance, etc. - helped.
In any freshman comp class, her essay would've earned a C-. And that's being kind.
I get SO many essays that sound exactly like this: all bluster and insult, with little or no thought put into the point they're trying to get across. Does Miss Ann even have a thesis statement in here?
My students, too, think being "conservative" means "cool" and "serious," yet their beliefs put them in much, much different company than they realize.
There's a reason I call her Ann C*nter.
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