Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [10]
I don’t remember Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope producing a video pledging themselves to be servants of Ronald Reagan. In fact, if anyone had ever made a video with people reading the exact same lines as Demi and Ashton’s friends about a Republican president, MSNBC would be running specials on the rise of fascism in America. I mean, even more than it does now. Reagan won the Cold War, rescued the economy, set the country on a decades-long path of peace and prosperity, and was a terrific speaker. And yet Republicans were able to listen to him give a speech without fainting.
In his book Obama Zombie: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation, Jason Mattera describes liberal blogger Michael Whack’s giddy account of his encounter with Obama at a 2008 campaign event. After seeing “the guy” in front of him shake Obama’s hand, Whack wrote:
As the guy drew back his hand I asked him, “You shook his hand didn’t you?” Happily the guy said “Yes.” I then said, “give me some of that” and the guy shook my hand with the same hand he had just clasped with Barack’s. A woman friend of mine who was standing next to me saw me shake hands with the guy. I turned to her and said “He [the guy] just shook hands with Barack,” to which she responded … “Hey, give it up.” We then shook hands. She then turned to the person next to her and shook hands. This chain of handshakes went on for about five or six more persons.29
Democrats would drink Obama’s bathwater.
Perhaps it is because they don’t believe in the real God that liberals are compelled to turn so many humans into living deities. Elena Kagan, liberal Supreme Court justice, said she “sat down and wept” when Liz Holtzman lost the 1980 election for the U.S. Senate.30 Can you imagine John Roberts crying when G.H.W. Bush lost his reelection bid in 1992? For that matter, can you imagine even Barbara Bush crying over that?
When California Democrats Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein won their 1992 primary elections for the U.S. Senate, Time magazine’s Margaret Carlson said she felt “a rush, an exultation, that surpassed any political moment I have ever known.”31 Uma Thurman proclaimed Al Gore “adorable” and “sexy,” saying that looking at him was like “watching a beautiful racehorse run.”32 (A racehorse who came in second in a two-horse race in 2000.)
Margaret Carlson called Hillary “the icon of American womanhood”—an “amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes.”33 (That last one perhaps explaining why Hillary always wears pants.) The Washington Post’s Martha Sherrill said Hillary was “replacing Madonna as our leading cult figure.”34 Time magazine’s Lance Morrow said Hillary was “somewhere between Eleanor and Evita, transcending both,” and that her run for the Senate marked the moment “when the civilization pivots, at last, decisively—perhaps for the first time since the advent of Christian patriarchy two millenniums ago—toward Woman.”35
Conservatives are never disappointed because they never expect much from their leaders. They certainly don’t have sex dreams about them, or describe them as “rainbows.” Perhaps conservatives aren’t looking for a savior on the ballot because they already have one.
Most of the time, conservatives can barely tolerate their leaders. Republican presidents are lucky if their own party doesn’t move to impeach them. President Nixon lied once to the country, not under oath, and his own party demanded that he resign immediately. Bill Clinton lied repeatedly under oath in two depositions and a grand jury inquiry, and yet every single sitting Democratic senator voted to keep him in office. (Clinton also lied not under oath, to his friends, to his party, to his wife—we’re told—in public and in private.)
Although there may be enthusiasms about a popular Republican leader, the cultlike worship of politicians, common to mobs,