Coulter over Rice

“In light of their reaction to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) as secretary of state, I gather liberals have gotten over their enthusiasm for multiculturalist milestones. It's interesting that they dropped their celebrations of the "first woman!" "first black!" "first Asian!" designations at the precise moment that we are about to get our first black female secretary of state.” (Coulter, http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/, December 2, 2004, COPYRIGHT 2004 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE).
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First, I heard Ann Ostrich say that liberals have a problem with blacks (her description) (see my entry for December 2, 2004) and now A.O. charges that liberals are not sufficiently celebrating the nomination of Dr. Rice for Secretary of State. Get the point? Liberals are not the friends of African Americans and women that everyone thought they were.

A.O. is smart, nimble, fearless (in print), and nasty. That’s the real difference between Liberal Nation and Conservative Nation; Liberal Nation tries to convince the country that it is tough enough to deal with terrorists and Conservative Nation tries to convince the country that it really has a sense of compassion. Since it’s mostly impossible to show any evidence of the latter, A.O. has decided to push the idea that Liberal Nation is not compassionate either.

She has perceived, perhaps correctly, that liberals are allowing themselves to be described as not having the stomach to do the tough stuff. That would have been impossible in the 1960s, when the liberals were not only risking their lives and toughing it out in court for civil rights, but were also marching us to war in Vietnam. According to A.O., she was only three then and, therefore, can not comment, according to her.

The truth is that Liberal Nation today is not going to go along with a nominee because of sex or skin color. They fought for that option thirty-five years ago, as well the option of having such people to consider. Back then, the only choices were white men. That is no longer the issue. A.O. knows nothing of the toughness that it took to achieve that, nothing.

What Liberal Nation lacks is a clear voice to state its case. Until one comes along, punks, I mean pundits, like A.O. will continue unabated.