The bottom line about all of this is that Ann Coulter sells books, she’s adored by the super-rightists and is over-the-top controversial. NYU will be all over the news I’m sure for a day or two also. That’s why she’s coming. She knows it and so do the College Repubs.

Oh, and, you can continue to demonize the far-right crazies like Coulter (and personally, I think you’re within your right to do so). But the far-left has just as many and as crazy talking-heads as Coulter. You can’t be famous by being a moderate or centrist.

@ Keith

Your second point is considered, by the majority, to be the case across the political spectrum, but can you give me the names of said crazies on the left? Moore? Oscar-winning documentarian. Franken? Possible US Senator. Maddow? New queen of cable.

Yours is a talking point that throws to the wayside all of the hate spewed by the right. Do “our” crazies preach the virtues of racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and sexism? No.

This is the difference. This is why Coulter is an abomination. This is why our College Republican’s officers should be ashamed of themselves.

Is anyone else strongly reminded of Ahmedinajah (spell check, I’m too lazy) visiting Columbia?

The difference is, we can throw pies at Coulter w/o causing an international scandal.

I am saddened that a university’s PETTY claim to fame is through speakers whose writing has only shown the world how and hatred and intolerance can be NY TImes bestsellers. There are famous moderates in the world and America. Unfortunately, not all people’s interests lie in reading the philosophy of tolerance and moderatism because it takes hard work to understand what it means to accept and embrace other’s differences. I for one don’t embrace columnists who spew comments of irrationality. Anne Coulter isn’t only a symbol of a “far-right crazy” (I would use a different term here, sorry for the offensive inconvenience of repetition of this dreaded term) but rather a symbol of the irrationality people endorse. People who dread reading the news will seek quick analyzation of the media through her books. I will go tonight for 5 minutes just to see what is in store. To College Republicans, you could have spent the money elsewhere, but chose to spend it on a speaker whose books are juicy and serve to entertain, not inform. Is this the only republican woman you could have endorsed? Could you possibly have brought Sarah Palin instead? She is a true politician, not just a writer, even if she is quite controversial too.

p.s. I don’t think Sarah Palin has written any books, but is more qualified to speak. Just my opinion.

one more thing to add, how will Ann Coulter speak? i thought her jaw was wired shut

I think she’s just going to beam horrifying images of the dread lord Cthulhu directly into the minds of everyone in the auditorium.

Okay, no more “Ann Coulter is a monster” jokes for me.

Wait, Ned, you were joking?

The College Republicans, at least the ones I’ve spoken to, see this upcoming event as one for frivolity and celebration. Most would attest that this is not an evening for deep policy analysis but merely an evening to share some jokes about “liberals,” some fun, political times.

That’s all well and good for the College Republicans. But let us not forget that this is the same group that created two explicitly racist events in recent years which they also claimed were simply fun, political times.

The jokes aren’t worth it, the hatred isn’t invisible, and the effect is explicit. Let no College Republican ever forget that we saw them enter this event as cooperators, as commiserators, as allies in whatever Coulter says tonight. They are to be judged as such, because for those who relate to those she attacks and for those who are her targets, this not just another fun time.

The College Republicans may very well see this as all fun and games, but it still shows a total lack of class. I can’t imagine getting a speaker in for the Dems who said things like “We should assassinate George Bush” or “All white people are evil” and then try to excuse it by suggesting we didn’t mean anything by it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the College Republicans have no class and, regardless of my good feeling towards some of their individual members, as a group they have shown themselves to be racists, lying dirtbags.

If Ann is plagiarizing, who can she possibly be plagiarizing from? I’d like to start buying those books too!

I have the titles right here…

“The Faith We Have Not Kept” by Strom Thurmond
” The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government” by Jefferson Davis
“GIT-R-DONE” by Daniel Lawrence Whitney
“Mein Kampf”

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The College Republicans should bring in Sarah Palin.

Palinfest ‘09?

Henry, why do you want to make me cry?

I hear the voice of my campus, and if they call for Sarah Palin, we will absolutely pull out to stops to make it happen. Honestly I was planning on getting Cheney first, but we would be more than happy to change our plans to accommodate the will of the people.

Yep, the College Republicans definitely hear the voice of the campus, Hampton. Like when 15 of them carried on a game of “find the illegal immigrant,” even though 600 students, teachers, and members of the community were there to protest it.