>> Have you ever left the US? <<
Yup. Spent almost 20 years of my life outside the US.
Then how can you regard Pelosi, for example, as being at the far left of political opinion? Even in the US, she's not. It just comes over as a flip insult.
A point I've often made is that all mainstream US politicians would be classed as centre through right-wing in virtually any other Western country, and anyone deriding (say) Kerry as a socialist proves only their own ignorance and parochialism.
That's only because I couldn't think of Michael Moore's name as I responded the first time. Or any of the other left-leaning clowns who are so quick to bash those on the right. You apparently didn't read the part in my post about Coulter being a counterpoint to them.
I don't read Moore, didn't know he's a columnnist. Dowd and Ivins I read occasionally. One of them (Ivins, I think) is particularly scathing about Texas politicians, about whom I know zip. Otherwise, though, they don't seem to go for the kind of personalised gratuitous abuse that Coulter clearly does (from those excerpts and columns linked recently); they mock and deride ideas and poses, rather than classes of people.
And if, as I say, your mindset is that Pelosi is some radical-socialist epitome of leftist politics, then you're in the wrong place here, because you'll agree with and enjoy very few of the posts. |
