**Op Ed**
Date: January 24, 2003
Contact: Daniel Borchers
Founder and President
Citizens for Principled Conservatism
(240) 476-9690
CoulterWatch@yahoo.com
www.CoulterWatch.com
Ann Coulter: The Freshest Face
of the Conservative Movement
(a.k.a. Exemplar of Extremism)
While “conservative firebrand” Ann Coulter is certainly the freshest face of the
Conservative Movement, the question remains, is Coulter – and should she be – the
new face of Conservatism?
If Coulter is truly an “exemplar of the Conservative Movement,” why must we
sanction her incessant extremism and even revere her “wisdom” as worthy of
emulation?
As “a Christian and a conservative,” Coulter demands hatred of the Left as our
American patriotic duty, boasts of her own enmity towards fellow Americans, and
vilifies all things liberal.
As a “pro-lifer,” Coulter, in a debate on partial-birth abortion, expressed her daily
desire to kill fellow New Yorkers. Post-9/11, Coulter remains on a rampage to
“kill, kill, kill” and, again, “kill, kill, kill.” Coulter advocates execution for political
intimidation, assassination to pave the way for racial profiling, and terrorism to
destroy political enemies.
As a “constitutional scholar,” prior to 9/11 Coulter suggested caning to shame
inner city blacks. After 9/11, Coulter advocated mass deportation of legal residents
based on race and religion, implementation of a system of Muslims spying on their
neighbors, holding detainees incommunicado indefinitely without a lawyer,
conducting military tribunals for American citizens in America, and torturing
prisoners.
As a “civil rights advocate,” Coulter defends Sen. Trent Lott’s nostalgia for
segregation, wants to repeal women’s suffrage, and seeks the reinstitution of poll
taxes and literacy tests as voting requirements.
As a “best-selling author,” Coulter’s book Slander is filled with vilification and
inaccuracies. This “investigative journalist” relies on LEXIS/NEXIS for primary
research and expresses her opin