By Ann Coulter
In last weeks CNN debate in the Delaware Senate race between the astonishingly well-spoken Christine ODonnell and the unfortunate-looking Chris Coons ODonnell had to put up with it from Coons for 90 minutes.
ODonnell wiped the floor with Coons moderators Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian and the idiotic University of Delaware students asking questions -- all of whom were against her.
In all of lifes tribulations there is nothing so aggravating as being condescended to by an idiot.
(With the nation on the verge of another great depression -- the brunt of which to my delight will fall most heavily on college students -- guess what the dunderheads asked? GUESS! Thats right: They asked about abortion in the case of rape or incest dont ask dont tell doing something about our carbon footprint and the kook-minister who was going to burn Korans because ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE I TELL YOU!)
ODonnells responses couldnt have been better if Thomas Sowell were whispering them in her ear. But after every well-thought-out answer she gave Coons would act as if ODonnell were speaking in tongues and make a dismissive remark to the moderators: If you can reconcile all those comments youre an even more talented reporter than I think you are Nancy. (ODonnell managed to simply answer the questions without wasting everyones time with snippy asides about Coons replies.) Then Coons would say something incomprehensible false or insane -- such as his conspiracy theory about the Australians uniting with the Chinese against America. Yes Australia Americas most loyal ally. After ODonnell described the China problem with absolute precision -- the Chinese hold so much of our debt we cant hold them accountable in their dealings with Iran or North Korea -- Coons smirkingly replied: Its hard for me to respond effectively Wolf to all the different issues that my opponent has raised in previous statements and Ill just let that stand. Then he launched his Chinese-Australian conspiracy theory! Coons said: The Australian navy engaged in joint exercises with the Chinese and specifically excluded us recently. A dramatic shift in the Australian policy. Somehow The New York Times had missed the national security implications of Australias engaging in naval exercises with China! Either that or Coons is Dennis Kucinich Ive-got-eight-test-tube-babies-and-Im-broke crazy. Weirdly though considering Australia is snubbing the U.S. and sidling up to China the Australian navy also recently staged a dramatic re-enactment of Gen. Douglas MacArthurs Incheon landing during the Korean War which saved Australian troops from annihilation. Its strange that the Australians would honor America -- or as the North Koreans put it try to impress U.S. sycophants and lackeys -- just as theyre distancing themselves from us. Maybe thats why no one else in the developed world is worried about Australias joint naval exercises with China. (But The Weekly World News is jumping right on it!) In contrast to ODonnells manifestly true point that China could take us over monetarily before they could militarily Coons seemed more worried about a military invasion. He warned that as the Chinese have become economically stronger they are seeking to become militarily stronger. (ODonnell quipped: Are you saying that China has a plot to take over America? -- exactly what she has been falsely accused of saying.) If you do nothing else before casting your vote Delawareans ask people who know something if China poses more of a military threat or a monetary threat to us. (Make sure they know youre talking about China the country not singer/actress Chynna Phillips.) What should worry Delaware voters even more than Coons demanding a first strike against China was the elaborate lying he did -- on stage in front of everyone -- about his familys financial interest in cap and trade. Responding to the question about our carbon footprint from a student who will be living with his parents soon ODonnell gave a tour-de-force attack on the cap-and-trade bill mentioning the massive electricity bills that will devastate Delawares farmers and elderly citizens. She concluded by asking Coons:Speaking of cap and trade your family business stands to financially benefit from some environmental legislation under Bush --
Then she was cut off by the moderator. Coons sneered: A fascinating question that really makes no sense yet so if youd like to -- better ask the whole question Id be -- whats she talking about? ODonnell said sweetly Id like to know if your family business stands to have a financial gain if cap and trade is passed and if so would you recuse yourself in the lame duck sessions from voting with Harry Reid? Coons again scoffed at ODonnell: Fascinating question. No. Thinking he had caught ODonnell in a gaffe Blitzer asked for her evidence. Oops! ODonnell cited W.L. Gore -- the company owned by Coons stepfather which also provided Coons with the only for-profit job he ever held -- and said that the company makes fuel cells and other things that companies will be forced to buy under cap and trade. (Making W.L. Gore at least the second entity named Gore to cash in on the global warming hoax by the way.) Blitzer asked Coons Is that true? Oops again! Amid a litany of irrelevancies and insults -- Thats quite a stretch Gore makes a lot of products we also sell dental floss! -- Coons finally coughed up the truth: Yes Gore will benefit if cap and trade becomes law. He explained his earlier by-now-obvious lie by saying that it took a couple of minutes to even understand what she was talking about. Really? Thats strange because according to Delaware newspaper articles not seven years ago Coons himself -- as the lawyer for Daddys company - deployed Gore scientists to testify before Congress in favor of environmental mandates because as Coons said it was good for business. On Nov. 16 2003 company lawyer Christopher Coons told Wilmingtons News Journal: This is one of those very rare moments where the legislative outcome matters to Gore. I guess now we know why Coons kept pretending he couldnt understand the batty dame. Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
