Originally Posted by hondarobot
This is a pretty interesting thread. You can't hate Ann Coulter just for being a conservative. I know a lot (well, actually not that many) people who consider themselves conservative and they are honestly good people. It's a shades of gray, vs black and white thing. Many conservatives/right wing people believe in personal responsibility, less government interference in peoples lives, fiscal issues that if they were to actually work would be good for the general populace, ect.
But, unfortunately for the most part, they are wrong. At least in regards to how the Republican party is currently pursuing those ideals.
Fascists believe in absolute control to maintain the status quo. To keep us "safe" by making sure there is no latitude that would allow any problems to arise.
That, currently, is what the majority of the right wing believes.
Ann may very well be a TS. Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict. George Bush is a "reformed" alcoholic, former coke snorting buffoon. Who cares? It's what they do in public that matters and their private lives shouldn't factor into it. Hypocrites? Sure, big deal, I don't care. Public figures should do their job, and that's all that really effects you or me.
Disagree with them on important issues, not what they do at home at the end of the day.
I don't think it's a conservative/liberal thing at all. It's just that a lot of fundamently bad people seem to have captured the primative impulses of the U.S. majority right now and are riding this thing for all it's worth.