Ann Coulter - 14 Oct

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Contents

L IBERALS NEVER GIVE UP. Nothing is ever over until they get their way, much like two-year-olds. Thats why we have to go back every few years and remind everyone that we already had this argument, and liberals lost. Theres a reason our Partys symbol is the elephantwe never forgetand the Democrats is a jackass.

Heyanyone remember when liberals told us in the 1970s that Earth was going to freeze in two years? Now they tell us its going to overheat in two years.

Remember when Hubert Humphrey said hed eat his hat if civil rights laws ever led to racial quotas? Now they call us racist for opposing racial quotas.

Remember when Teddy Kennedy assured us his immigration bill would not alter the countrys ethnic mix? Since the bill passed, immigration has changed the nations ethnicity from nearly 90 percent white in 1965 to about 63 percent white in 2013.

Remember when they called President Ronald Reagan a dangerous cowboy threatening world peace? Now they act like he was a good partner with liberals in winning the Cold War.

Remember when the media howled that President Bush LIED in his State of the Union address about Saddam Hussein seeking uranium from Niger? Then two investigative committees, here and in Britain, established that he was telling the truth and liberal darling Joe Wilson was the liar.

If you do remember any of that, then Aaron Sorkins TV show The Newsroom will make no sense to you. Conservatives win an argument in real life and then, a year later, Sorkin writes a little teleplay reversing the facts so that liberals get to win.

Most people barely pay attention to whats happening now, much less two years agoand much, much less a few decades ago. Thats how the liberal version of history becomes accepted fact. Its not that history is written by the victors. History is written by the pushy. When one side cares MUCH more about the historical record, theres not a lot you can do about it. Especially when the pushy have tenure.

Ive often said that I could rewrite the same columns every year because liberals keep telling the same lies. But theres a limit to how many times a person can point out that Valerie Plame wasnt an undercover agent, the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing titled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US was irrelevant to the 9/11 attacks, Joe McCarthy was right, the teenagers convicted of the attack on the Central Park jogger were guilty, executed murderer Troy Davis was guilty, armed citizens reduce crime, modern science has proved Darwin wrong, waterboarding as practiced at Guantanamo was never considered a war crimeand so on.

(One victory: at least Keith Olbermann has stopped telling people he went to an Ivy League school!)

You think youve finally defeated liberals on some issue, but theyre just waiting impatiently to repeat the same thing they said last time. There are entire Hollywood movies about the innocence of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The Left never thought the Soviet Union would fall. When it did collapse and all the proof came tumbling out, establishing that Joe McCarthy was right and all the liberal martyrs had been Soviet spies, the natural thing would be for them to shut up for the rest of their lives, hunker down, and hope no one brought it up. Au contraire! They never quit. You know what, were going to make another movie about the horrors of the Red Scare. More astonishing than the range of issues liberals got wrong is the fact that theyre the ones who wont let it go.

The magnificently successful Iraq War has been rewritten as a failure, the Vietnam War is said to have been unwinnable from the start, and liberals claim Ronald Reagan didnt win the Cold War, it just ended. Or maybe Gorbachev ended it. In any event, Reagan merely continued the policies of his predecessorsjust like Rudy Giuliani continued Dinkinss crime policies.

The New York Times treatment of any subject will be the same until the end of time, only more so. Every once in awhile, you have to go back and set the record straight. Thats what this book does.

Liberal pushiness prevails not only in history but in actual public policy. We vote and vote and vote and vote until they win, and then we never vote again. Or well have a big national debate about one of their kooky ideas, the people vote, liberals loseand they bring a lawsuit to get what they want by judicial decree. Even when we win, we cant win.

In California alone, multiple lawsuits were brought to block popular initiatives banning: racial quotas at state schools, welfare for illegal aliens, and gay marriage. Liberals got a court to overturn the peoples will in all these cases, except the prohibition of racial quotas. But they wont stop trying! A federal appeals court first upheld Proposition 209s ban on race discrimination in college admissions in 1997, one year after the initiative passed. In 2012, another lawsuit was brought, again demanding that the same law be overturnedwith support from Governor Jerry Brown, who I believe is supposed to defend Californias laws.

Proposition 187, denying illegal aliens welfare, passed overwhelmingly in California, with the support of 64 percent of whites, 56 percent of African Americans, and 31 percent of Hispanics. This was in the face of a massive PR campaign portraying the proposition as a piece of anti-Hispanic racism. Forty percent of voters said the only reason they went to the polls that day was to vote on Proposition 187. (The reaction of most Californians to the initiative was: THATS NOT ALREADY THE LAW?)

Liberal groups instantly challenged the measure in court. Three days after California voters approved it, a federal judge issued a restraining order to prevent the laws implementation, and later declared it unconstitutional. That ruling was being appealed when Democrat Gray Davis was elected governor and dropped the appeal. A law denying welfare to illegal aliens, approved by nearly 60 percent of California voters, never became law because liberals didnt like it.