After presenting a talk on Lincoln at Grove City College last February, I had breakfast the next morning with Professors Shawn Rittennour and Jeff Herbener and the College Libertarians — the student group that invited me to speak. One bright young woman sitting across from me said that she aspired to be a columnist, just like Ann Coulter. I encouraged her to pursue her dream, but also mentioned that she was in the unique position to educate herself in a way that could make her far superior to the Ann Coulters of the world, as successful and influential as they may be.
I like many of Ann Coulter’s (older) columns but, like most “conservative” pundits today, she has become a propagandist for the Republican Party. Journalists like Coulter seem to have no principles other than “Republicans good, Democrats bad; no exceptions.” Not so long ago there was a conservative movement that sought to hold the Republican Party to conservative, limited government principles. That movement no longer exists.
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