The Republican Reagan Epiphany

The Republican Reagan Epiphany
by Ilana Mercer on 09.09.11

"Southerners are extremely patriotic," said Ann Coulter on Fox News Business, while explaining the phenomenon of a Southern Democrat (like Rick Perry), who has always been far more conservative than the northern Republican. "[Southern Democrats] were not going to remain with the party of George McGovern," observed Coulter, who is, arguably, the Republican Party's most powerful and most devoted pundit.

That's a little deceptive. Is it at all possible that the much-maligned Southern Democrat has found it hard to join the party of Abraham Lincoln? Perish the thought!

Ann Coulter says, correctly­and at last­that Ronald Reagan should not be held up as "the touchstone for every [other Republican] candidate." If only Ms.Coulter was capable of arriving at a similar epiphany about Lincoln, but that would demand too much by way of philosophical integrity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5t0kUIAqiY&feature=player_embedded

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