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Maybe a nice long time out until her decade long tantrum finally winds down. Then she can apologize to the adults before she is allowed back into society.
"There are no happy endings in the Bush Administration". - Randall L. Tobias
by MadRuth on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 05:58:20 AM PDT
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I am an Edwards Democrat.
by jsamuel on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 06:20:54 AM PDT
What a precious child you're raising, Melody. Don't they just amaze you at how smart and intuitive they can be at times?
I'm not a slacker...I'm just surrounded by overachievers!
by arkylib on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 06:22:51 AM PDT
What a great line: a time out for Ann Coulter!
It's hard to imagine Ann Coulter having parents, She strikes me as having been born from a testtube, and never given any love.
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by rhfactor on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 06:27:23 AM PDT
I've long believed that Ann Coulter was originally a good child who was kind to everyone. Because her parents didn't pay attention to her, she started acting up. That got her plenty of attention, so she kept upping the ante. Negative reinforcement is still the name of her game.
"We *can* go back to the Dark Ages! The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin!" -- Sinclair Lewis
by Nespolo on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 08:18:21 AM PDT
Being the good child csn have its consequences too. No one has to worry about the good child making good grades, or doing one's homework, or chores, or falling in with the drug crowd. It can be taken for granted, creating a craving for some kind of unique attention.
DO we actually know anything about her parents?
Could be another Michael J. Fox sitcom scenario where the parents were very liberal... I'm just saying.. could be. ANd the way to irritate them would be to fall in with those they despise: conservatives.
Oh.. but is it okay if I just go back to the idea of her being created in a test tube?
by rhfactor on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 08:27:26 AM PDT
I don't know if it's a syndrome or what, but I've known women kind of like that before -- women who just hate other women, and by extension all things they perceive to be feminine.
Her "conservatism" isn't based on any kind of ideology, it's based purely on her buying into the social stereotyping of liberal = girly and conservative = manly.
Of course, her hatred of women is very flattering to a certain kind of man -- and I do get the impression that her fans are mostly male.
it's dark in the goth house
by McJulie on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 08:47:33 AM PDT
I've known women like that, too.
by Nespolo on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 09:14:39 AM PDT
She isn't married with children. I'd like to know if she goes to church every Sunday, & if so, does she wear that same black micro dress? She calls liberals who have stayed married & raised children "Godless". Something is askew. Republicans are masters of cognitive dissonance. Maybe they just think everyone is stupider than they are. Hate sells in their world, & Coultergeist sells it. It's all she has to sell, with those skinny legs.
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by x on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 10:23:13 AM PDT
44 or 46 not married and no kids, Whats the betting that a lot of her hate started when she realised that her biological clock was running out. Mid thirties and bitter and twisted, that isnt going to attract many potential mates, its going to repel most men. Shes a prime example of how negativity is self fulfilling and self reinforcing, a warning to all.
Morality is the single most important issue.
by Ferrofluid on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 06:29:30 PM PDT
This is the work Coulter was born to do. She grew up in well-to-do Connecticut, inside a family she describes as "upper middle class". Conservative values were all around, whether personified by her stay-at-home mum or her Republican neighbours (though they were "moderate" Republicans, says Coulter now - a species inferior even to liberals). Argument coursed through the home, chiefly from her dad. "My father was a lawyer. He was a union buster," she says with pride. He encouraged constant debate around the dinner table. Young Ann got used to forming an opinion and presenting her case.
The above is taken from The Guardian's "Appalling Magic" article.
Pity. It would have made for some excellent humor. :)
A Republican is a person who can borrow $20, pay back $10, and claim the two of you are even because you both lost $10.
by plumberwill on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 04:01:33 PM PDT
Okay, then it appears she was raised in an authoritarian household, subscribed to their philosophies, and has never challenged herself about those core beliefs, or evolved in her ability to self-criticize, grow, learn. Instead she sprung from that grounding and used her smarts to see marketing holes in the pundit space, latched onto the slice that wasn't filled, and has simply delivered delivered delivered on what that segment wants:
Supply and demand.
Okay, that works. :)
Unfortunately she's got a retarded social development in the process, and likely will never see it, ever. She may quietly & deeply wonder very privately at times why she has no friends she could count on for kindness when she is old and frail, but the thought of her having created her own fate in that area will quickly be stomped out by "That's the price I paid to blaze this trail -- and I'm great! I can die knowing I was a first, and I am great."
Her poison will live on long past the time she's returned to dust, and this will be her amazing legacy. The smart child who learned to debate at the dinner table, and applaud little people's inconsequential tragedies of not having had "the right start".
by rhfactor on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 05:13:55 PM PDT
I don't think I've ever seen her parents on TV talking about how proud they are of their successful daughter. What gives?
by kathy in virginia on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 08:22:14 AM PDT
wide narrow
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