From the other angle: Then Trump has only won three caucuses! What a loser. I don’t really see how this difference matters, at all, other than controlling the narrative for her viewpoint.
Yeah, a researcher that mines for evidence to only support her viewpoint and disregards everything else, even when the other evidence is overwhelming against her position. She reminds me of one of those try hard high school nerds who always wanted to be right in social studies class. While I may seem like a lefty to many Americans, I’m very aligned with conservative ideology on most points (I’m a conservative voter in Canada…). And if i were an American, I’d probably be backing Ted Cruz. But Coulter drives me nuts. She represents everything that is wrong with the conservative movement in the U.S.
Have you read any of her books? As YW mentioned, she is in character and marketing most of the time. Has an agenda like everyone else. The women has some chops for sure though. She makes a great point about her book titles compared to those of Thomas Sowell. Maybe YW can share. Here’s her latest. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1621572676/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1460043269&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=coulter&dpPl=1&dpID=511nk5odwLL&ref=plSrch
I have read a couple of her books. Her points appeal to uneducated or perhaps mildly educated conservatives, but she doesn’t have the depth to be an intellectual. She’s a marketing lightweight. Good for her, she makes money and is famous doing it. But I don’t consider Coulter a voice for conservatism at any intellectual level.
/\ Sure, attack her views and writings, but to attack her intellect is not rational. She clearly is up there in IQ and academic and professional accomplishment. She’s what you might have been professionally and academically if you chose to use your brain instead of coast.
^ OK. She may not be a lightweight, but her writings are lightweight. They’re aimed at lesser educated people. I picked her arguments to pieces in her books, they have little depth. She has accomplished a lot professionally because she is a good writer and speaker and knows how to press the buttons that get a segment of the population powered up.
I would say she is intelligent, but far from intellectual. You are both correct in a sense. She uses her intelligence to realize that its incredibly easy to become wealthy by pandering to the lowest common denominator of the conservative base (Happens on both sides of the isle for sure though)
So while she does have fame and wealth, I have not heard of any professional or academic in the political realm ever consider her to be “up there” in her field. She reminds me of the Najarian brothers selling their options books tbh. She has been successful in life, which I do applaud her for, she did exactly what you are taught in business school. Find an unfilled market niche, take it, extract value.
Reading up on her and found this to be a funny read:
America enjoying soccer more = moral decay?
Primaries and caucuses tell you different things, the former is an open election akin to Election Day, while the latter is significantly more closed off and limited to party members.
Trump and Sanders are the only ones left that can break the sonless streak of POTUS. The last President to have a son was George H.W. Bush back in 1992. Hillary, Cruz and Kasich only have daughters.
Freakonomics should devote a chapter in their next edition on how you have a better chance to get elected as President if you don’t have a son.
I honestly don’t know enough or care about the dynamics of the self-proclaimed White ‘liberal’ impinging on the ‘freedom of speech’ of the White Right but I have to admit that it is amazing to have witnessed the last 8 years of the Republican party block, thwart and generally just make life impossible for Barrack Obama because y’know he’s a ‘muzzie’, wasn’t born ‘here’ and took the job that should rightly belong to a god-fearing honest as fuck White American rolling out the red carpet for someone like Donald Trump only to react in shock as the most predictable thing happened that even the fucking Simpsons managed to get it right.
Watching them try to snuff out the fire they created and in the process reach a point where they’re prepared to throw in the towel rather that let him get the nomination is cringe-worthy and the ill-will within and across parties is probably symbolic of the death of bipartisanship. The only thing more comical that this is watching White American conservatives trying to reason that SJW’s who are supposedly symbolic of everything wrong in America are as bad as retarded Whites who killed in the name of racial superiority.
Crazy really, you wouldn’t get this much entertainment in a circus.
The ironic thing about Trump’s latest tirade against the GOP establishment concerning the contested convention in Cleveland is that Trump is supposed to be the guy that is a dealmaker that understands all the rules and gets things done. He’s been saying for months now how he would be better and smarter than anyone else to negotiate deals with the Japanese and Koreans and Mexicans because no one is greater than he is at getting deals closed yet he is frightened at the possibility of getting a deal done with members of his own party. He is basically getting schooled on rules that have been in effect for a century and a half now.
I know part of his shtick is playing the sympathy card on how he is being screwed over but the convention will show how great Trump’s dealmaking skills really are. If that is truly his greatest strength then he has nothing to sweat about. For someone that claims that he can broker successfully the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the convention should be a piece of cake.
Posted a link I cant find a few days ago about Trumps negotiation experience in business not being particularly relevant for politics, interesting take from people who know the way it all works
https://hbr.org/2016/04/what-donald-trump-doesnt-understand-about-negotiation
i dont think he ever guaranteed that. he said it would be the toughest negotioation ever in the history of the world but he was skeptical there can be brokered peace.