The lines are beginning to be drawn. Conservatives either moving to the right or left. Sorry but Rand Paul is not a fad. Rather you like him or not, he´s been consistent over the years. So, will the GOP migrate towards the RINO´s or will it stand for lesser Government and taxes.

Coulter needs to explain the difference between libertarian ´groupthink´ and the groupthink that goes on inside the GOP.

The political opinions of students are worthless, not because of groupthink or even ideology, but because they are students. They are too young, inexperienced and uneducated to opine profitably on important matters. It is a grave mistake to encourage them to vote. They are supposed to be studying and acquiring an education, not delivering judgments on complex affairs they cannot begin to understand. It is a massive, perhaps lethal failure of modern education that it fails to teach the intellectual humility upon which genuine growth and learning depend.

"Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general. Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character; the defect does not depend on time, but on his living, and pursuing each successive object, as passion directs. For to such persons, as to the incontinent, knowledge brings no profit; but to those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowledge about such matters will be of great benefit." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I.

What #3 said

I´ve pretty much had my fill of neocon beltwayers like Ann, Dr.K, Kristol, et al. Get out of the way.


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"The virtue of a thing is relative to its proper work. Now there are three things in the soul which control action and truth-sensation, reason, desire" Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Chaper VI verse 2.
The Internet gives everyone the opportunity to be a dilattante and a bore. Which is exactly what Ms. Coulter is.
The more I listen to her, the more she resembles a performance artist. Her character is shrill, piquant and bombastic...much like Andy Kaufman´s work. In fact, I postulate that Ms. Coulter is Andy Kaufman!

Sorry, Ann. You lost me at Chris Christy and Mitt Romney.

I Do like you, dear, but I´ll take Rand´s brand of conservatism over the RINOS you fawn over...

Coulter is smart. But she´s lost her appeal; for me, and I think for a lot of, well college students. Her condescension makes here more stuck-up than anything.

And, I´m glad Rand Paul is on our side. We can deal with our differences with Paul when the time comes. Now, is the time to deal with Democrats, and Paul is doing a great job of that, unlike Coulter.

Ms. Coulter doesn´t know her butt from page 1, and from here on out I will avoid her published musings. It´s nigh on impossible to find two libertarians who agree on more than five issues, let alone accuse the lot of them of "groupthink". She´s either disingenuous or clueless and either way we don´t need her.

Quite true, #3, but, unfortunately, they vote, as do hordes of other ignoramuses.

I liked Coulter back when she was a conservative.

College types in the late teens and early 20´s are mentally not yet fully formed adults. So yup I could understand the group think tendencies.

The signers of the Constitution must have been participating in ´groupthink´.


The Constitution is a libertarian document.

Agree 2, 5, 6, 7 ,8, 9, 10, 13

Especially, the get out of way statement.

I´m now glad I didn´t buy any of her books which I thought about many times.

There are lots of things I dislike about Ann Coulter but she´s right about young libertarian group think, and she´s right about Rand Paul. I loved his filibuster stunt, it´s the type of thing we should be doing more of...but I´m certainly not sold on "all" of him. Whatever you do, just remember, he VOTED FOR Chuck Hagel.

Ad hominem attacks on Ann Coulter because of disagreement over college libertarianism are most unfortunate. Those who have not read and refuse to read her books are depriving themselves of useful, documented information presented in an enjoyable, entertaining style.

The problem is not Ann Coulter and it is not libertarianism, whatever people mean or understand by that flexible term. The problem -and it is a very grave one- is the utterly preposterous, irrational, historically unprecedented delusion that teenagers and late adolescents, i.e. students and others, could possibly have anything worthwhile to think or say about politics, world affairs, social problems or other complex and intractable adult problems that have bedeviled the best and most experienced minds throughout all of human history. From whence, exactly, would the wisdom of young people about such matters spring?

This ridiculous idea -that children and students have anything to contribute to political discourse- is by no means an ancient one. It is in fact extremely modern. It really took wing in the Sixties. Since then the fantastic notion has arisen that students go to college or even high school, not to learn, but to teach.

It is not an ancient or longstanding practice, but it has happened before. Readers of Book VIII of Plato´s Republic will find it described there, along with its origins and consequences.

I´m with 2, 5, 6, 7 ,8, 9, 10, 13. Ooops, groupthink. I put Miss Adam´s Apple in the slot with David Brooks, David Frum, and the other phonies. Her support for Chris Christie and Mitt Romney makes it easy. Plus she´s a neocon warmonger. Hand me a pie.