JUDITH WARNER: Think Naughty, Think Small, Think Not

[Veronica.Franco]

Think Naughty, Think Small, Think Not

By JUDITH WARNER
Ann Coulter’s use of the epithet “faggot” to slur Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards last week took me back to the schoolyards of the 1970s, when Coulter and I were both young.

There were plenty of words like “faggot” being thrown around back then. There was “faggoty,” for example. “Retard.” And “spaz” — or “total spaz,” the rhythm of which rang through her words last year, when Coulter dismissed Al Gore on MSNBC as a “total fag.”

The world of playground insults hasn’t altered much since Coulter’s schooldays, but the larger world has changed a bit. She made her remarks during a major gathering of conservatives in Washington that drew most of the major Republican presidential candidates, and commentators of the left, right and center soundly denounced her.

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At a Conservative Women’s Network lunch at the Heritage Foundation last week, a question was raised, over dessert, about how conservative women should deal, “as women,” if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination for president. The guest speaker, Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer in Washington, hemmed and hawed, shared some thoughts about Wellesley College and Barbara Bush, blushed, then concluded, “We’ll let the redneck guys who just aren’t ready to vote for a female commander in chief take care of the woman thing.”

Sounds like a plan. Sounds to me, too, like the Republican noise machine may just have a monkey wrench in its machinery.

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/2007/03/think-naughty-think-small-think-not.html

Just when you think they can't get any sadder ... they prove you wrong ...

[redqueen]

1. 'Use small words. Use small sentences'

:rofl:

Noooooooo, they're not elitists. They're just using small words when they speak to people whom they consider beneath them intellectually, in order to fool them into voting against their best interests... that's all! They're just neo-cons. That's what they do.