She's got to be a figure head, right? No one is that hateful, right?
I sometimes wonder if the most rabid of the right and left belive all they say or just say it to get attention and money.
I honestly do not know if Coulter believes all she says but she does make a ton of money off of being provocative. She is not a dumb person and she knows what the right wing mass media will eat up so she profits on it.
What is worse if she believes what she says honestly and truly or just says outrageous things for a profit?
I think it is worse if she say sit for a profit but it fits in with her ideology of saying or doing anything to make money.
That by the way is Romney's ideology as well. He is not really a right wing ideologue and he is not really a pragmatist. He will just say or do anything to advance his personal goals. Right now those goals are to become president in the past they were Gov. or Senator and before that they were to make as much money as possible. Any position he takes or any act he carries out is ok in his mind as long as it increases the chances that he succeeds.
That is way more dangerous then either a right wing or left wing ideologue.
It is one thing to be pragmatic, I think Obama is at heart a Pragmatist and not a far left ideologue like the rabid right tries to portray him, and another thing entirely to be a pathological opportunist. The far left wouldn't be so unhappy with him if he was more left leaning. He moved to the center and then past the center to try and get the Republicans to agree to anything but that does not fit the Republican world view. They will be against anything he is for even they are positions/policies that they supported in the past.
Romney is that pathological opportunist with little if any defining core. I am sure his faith provides him with some type of core believes but since he has kept his faith fairly private, and I have no problem with that, it is hard to find that core.
Sure he is a Mormon but he hasn't given a speech on what his Mormon faith means to him. At least not that I know of. He hasn't delved deep into that kind of background so that you can see how it might shape his very core. And again that is ok and his right to do. I think forcing candidates to be so overtly religious is a real problem in US politics. Romney has not played up his Mormon faith as much, excluding talking about missionary work and tithing, as another religious candidate might because I think he is afraid of scaring traditional evangelical protestants. You know the ones that think Mormonism is a cult.