Love her or hate her

[radarrider]

Either way, you're probably not indifferent toward Ann Coulter. Regardless, sometimes she gets it perfectly right:

It is a liberal trope to insult conservatives by asking them meaningless questions, such as the one repeatedly asked of Bush throughout his presidency about whether he had made any mistakes. All humans make mistakes -- what is the point of that question other than to give insult?

When will the first reporter ask President Obama to admit that he has made mistakes? Try: Never.

No, that question will disappear for the next four years. It will be replaced by the new question for conservatives on every liberal's lips these days: Do you want Obama to succeed as president?

Answer: Of course we do. We live here, too.

But merely to ask the question is to imply that the 60 million Americans who did not vote for Obama are being unpatriotic if they do not wholeheartedly endorse his liberal agenda.

I guess it depends on the meaning of "succeed." If Obama "succeeds" in pushing through big-government, terrorist-appeasing policies, he will not have "succeeded" at being a good president. If we didn't think conservative principles of small government and strong national defense weren't better for the country, we wouldn't be conservatives.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

With respect to Ann Coulter, I find myself forced to observe that even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

I think, though, the time to talk about whether anyone asks Obama during his first term whether he thinks he made mistakes will be about four years from now. Unless she has a secret crystal ball she isn't telling us about (which I doubt), for Coulter to ask the question now — or to claim it will never be asked — is simple mean-spiritedness.