Reply #6: no, she is a tool for the conservative movement [View All]

[NewJeffCT]

She says things that are so outrageous & radical that when some RW politician comes along and is slightly less outrageous, the RW politician now appears to be a moderate, as in "at least he/she is not out there like Coulter!"

that is how they have moved the debate further & further to the right.

My example I've used 100 times on DU is that in 1964, Barry Goldwater was considered so far to the right that he was way out of the mainstream as to be unelectable, and he lost in an historic landslide.

However, the debate has moved so far to the right that Goldwater's pro-choice, pro-environment and pro gays in the military stands would make him a liberal Republican these days. Yet, his fellow Arizonan John McCain, who is anti-choice and against gays in the military is now a moderate Republican.