Another post about the Blond One

I saw over on Born Again Redneck that some of the big conservative bloggers are starting to bash Ann Coulter for calling little faggot John Edwards a faggot. [roll eyes and sigh with profound exasperation]

OK, listen up. The only reason that the left continues to use labels like racist, sexist and homophobe against us are that we reply by cringing and groveling. This makes us look weak and takes us off message. It also lends credence to the enemy's charges. After all if Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani and John McCain and big conservative bloggers (and I'll wager that some of the more prissy conservative columnists like George Will will join the chorus as well) all say that Ann went "too far" and that her remarks were "hateful" and constituted a "smear" then all we will do is invite more of those attacks.

After all if they can get many conservatives to reject the most effective voice we have then why shouldn't they keep up that kind of attack. Nothing succeeds like success.

And if you question my statement that Ann is our most effective voice then consider this. In the mid 1800s the corrupt Tammany machine ruled New York City and kept it under the thumb of William M. "Boss" Tweed. Thomas Nast, the father of American political cartooning took on Tweed through his editorial cartoons.

This drove Tweed crazy. He regarded Nast as a greater threat to his power than all of the muck-raking reporters in the city combined. This was because most of the poor voters who Tweed depended upon for reelection were illiterate. They couldn't read what the "investigative journalists" wrote about him, but they could damn well look at Nast's drawings of Tweed and his cronies as and get the message that Tweed was evil and crooked.

It is the same today with Ann's writing. The fact is that most of the voters in this country will never read long thoughtful, well written essays, full of footnotes or hyperlinks about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards. They will not spend hours every day on the web and listening to talk radio and become deeply knowledgeable about the Democratic candidates and what is so very wrong with each and every one of them. That, after all, takes time and hard work (yes, learning is hard work to many).

But what a great many will do is read a newspaper column which will give them a chuckle (it being not nearly so hard to laugh). Ann is highly intelligent and has a wickedly funny and razor sharp way of boiling down the issues and personalities. We need her to keep doing exactly what she is doing.