watch this space
Saturday, March 03, 2007
It's early Saturday morning. I didn't feel like websurfing last night. I did pay pretty close attention to the political chat shows, Hardball and The Situation Room. After checking my e-mail first thing this morning (where are you Neal?) it took me all of three clicks (NLS to Ox Road South to Raising Kaine) to find out Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot at yesterday's CPAC conference. After a little more poking around, I learned that Americablog reported this before 5pm yesterday. There could be a silver lining in the MSMs silence on the scandal.
This will not go away. The Dems would be foolish to let the GOP off the hook. It will be interesting, and, I predict, ultimately satisfying, to watch the GOP twist as it decides how to respond. The three GOP frontrunners are in a box on this particular slur. Giuliani will find it impossible to do other than denounce Coulter. He can flip on a lot of things, but not on gay issues. Romney, too, was a sincere-seeming gay rights supporter not long ago. McCain didn't even change his schedule to make an appearance at the CPAC event; so, it seems unlikely he'd want to hug Coulter tightly and start gay bashing.
In fact, McCain's absence yesterday gives him a great opportunity to seize the high ground. McCain could appeal to moderates by claiming the mantle of the GOP's change candidate which also has the benefit of separating himself from Bush, whom he strangely otherwise tied himself to on the war. Of course, I don't know if McCain will do this. Moreover, I hope he doesn't, because the silence from the MSM and the GOP will cement Coulter and her hate to the conservatives and Bush, and, if, as I suspect, change will be THE issue of the next elections (hopefully, including this year's VA races), Dems will romp!
This will not go away. The Dems would be foolish to let the GOP off the hook. It will be interesting, and, I predict, ultimately satisfying, to watch the GOP twist as it decides how to respond. The three GOP frontrunners are in a box on this particular slur. Giuliani will find it impossible to do other than denounce Coulter. He can flip on a lot of things, but not on gay issues. Romney, too, was a sincere-seeming gay rights supporter not long ago. McCain didn't even change his schedule to make an appearance at the CPAC event; so, it seems unlikely he'd want to hug Coulter tightly and start gay bashing.
In fact, McCain's absence yesterday gives him a great opportunity to seize the high ground. McCain could appeal to moderates by claiming the mantle of the GOP's change candidate which also has the benefit of separating himself from Bush, whom he strangely otherwise tied himself to on the war. Of course, I don't know if McCain will do this. Moreover, I hope he doesn't, because the silence from the MSM and the GOP will cement Coulter and her hate to the conservatives and Bush, and, if, as I suspect, change will be THE issue of the next elections (hopefully, including this year's VA races), Dems will romp!
Comments:
Wrong again. I really hope my poor predicting skills when it comes to decisive scandals doesn't mean I'm also bad at predicting election outcomes, though you should know I am bad at predicting election outcomes. Apparently, Coulter has a history of just calling various Democrats gay. She slipped in the slur "big fag" on Hardball, but most of the time she says gay or homosexual and it's not harped on. She's getting criticized, and rightly so, for slurring, but we're not going to get a big debate on homosexuality. Until we do, Ann and her fellow bigots will be free to scare and shock their base. Maybe that's how they feel about those on the left who conclude that Christian fundamentalists are stupid or liars.
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