Ann Coulter is a terrible spokesperson for the Republican Party. Though I disagree with her on just about every point, she makes in her opening statement. I could make much better arguments for her beliefs than she did.
Her foreign policy comments were more than ignorant and insane. All she had to say is that she supported a deceleration of war and she would have won me over. But I would have appreciated a more honest answer; ‘based on the actions Saddam was taking in regards to monetary policy and the impacts it would have had on the US.’ Reasonable arguments can be made for US engagement (I still oppose them) in other countries, but they are based not on a need to protect us from war, terrorism, and violence, but instead to defend our banking system and other geopolitical reasons. Our horrific foreign policy temporally seeks to protect our unsustainable way of life.
In Q & A I think Ann had some decent pragmatic points, but again I was irritated with her presumptuous and ignorant responses. Libertarians do not suck up to their liberal friends as she put it, any more than they suck up to their conservative friends. Moreover, most Libertarians main platform arguments are not those she mentions; those that she mentions are just the ones that get the most attention by media and pundits like her. They choose to focus on and notice them because our political atmosphere is based on seeking differences. Sadly the little media Libertarians get, rarely depicts the philosophy and reasoning behind the positions, instead of sound bites, lumping of two parties boxed rhetoric is applied to continue the illusion of only two choices.
Libertarians are unlike all other groups and political parties, they have consistent, principled beliefs and do not support policy decisions based on self-interest, instead, they hold a consistent belief that people should be free. Libertarians are the only political philosophy that believes in equality under the law. All other parties lobby for government to aid and legitimize their special interests; only Libertarians want to allow all people to be free to seek their “pursuit of happiness.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” - Aristotle
Glen Beck: Ann Coulter vs. Libertarians
http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25608397&topic_id=23419450&v=3
Her foreign policy comments were more than ignorant and insane. All she had to say is that she supported a deceleration of war and she would have won me over. But I would have appreciated a more honest answer; ‘based on the actions Saddam was taking in regards to monetary policy and the impacts it would have had on the US.’ Reasonable arguments can be made for US engagement (I still oppose them) in other countries, but they are based not on a need to protect us from war, terrorism, and violence, but instead to defend our banking system and other geopolitical reasons. Our horrific foreign policy temporally seeks to protect our unsustainable way of life.
In Q & A I think Ann had some decent pragmatic points, but again I was irritated with her presumptuous and ignorant responses. Libertarians do not suck up to their liberal friends as she put it, any more than they suck up to their conservative friends. Moreover, most Libertarians main platform arguments are not those she mentions; those that she mentions are just the ones that get the most attention by media and pundits like her. They choose to focus on and notice them because our political atmosphere is based on seeking differences. Sadly the little media Libertarians get, rarely depicts the philosophy and reasoning behind the positions, instead of sound bites, lumping of two parties boxed rhetoric is applied to continue the illusion of only two choices.
Libertarians are unlike all other groups and political parties, they have consistent, principled beliefs and do not support policy decisions based on self-interest, instead, they hold a consistent belief that people should be free. Libertarians are the only political philosophy that believes in equality under the law. All other parties lobby for government to aid and legitimize their special interests; only Libertarians want to allow all people to be free to seek their “pursuit of happiness.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” - Aristotle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4qiIFwDziQw
Glen Beck: Ann Coulter vs. Libertarians
http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25608397&topic_id=23419450&v=3
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