Really, I'm Not Trying To Be All Palin, All the Time

They make me do it by vividly illustrating points I've been making for a long time, points about the emptiness of modern conservatism that conservatives used to deny. For example: Ann Coulter announcing that Governor Palin is the Human Events conservative of the year:

Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS’ prestigious “Conservative of the Year” Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people.

Because, of course, the primary goal of modern conservatives is that they annoy liberals. They'll speak out in favor of lawless government, torture, and just about anything else as long as it's annoying to liberals.

And still, somehow they lost the election. Must have been media bias.

Comments

[Steve]

Ann Coulter?

The people you think speak for all of us always amazes me Tom.

[Adam]

Actually, Steve, I think the fact that Ann Coulter is as big a celebrity as she is in right-wing circles does kinda help Tom's case... She should be a pariah. Instead her books sell tons, which suggests she's not such a nutcase to choose that she doesn't have a large following among Republicans.

It's the same problem as Democrats allowing certain people to be anything other than pariahs in their own party. A Democrat can say, "Well, he/she doesn't speak for all of us," but really, that doesn't answer the question of why that person still has such standing.

That answer, I think, is more about the human condition than about the two big parties, though.

[Steve]

I see your point Adam, but does that mean that Michael Moore speaks for all Liberals, or Paris Hilton or the late Anna Nicole Smith for all women?

Celebrity is often a by product of controversy, not intelligence.

As you said, probably more about the human condition.