"Treason" by Ann Coulter

If a beady-eyed, rumpled, hard-drinking man with the personality of a treed bobcat rescued your family from a burning building, would you refuse to thank him, desperately wishing that someone more polite, well-educated and better looking had been your children's rescuer?  Would you join in with the arsonists who maliciously set that house fire, who are mocking him as a publicity-hound and drunkard, pronouncing him delusional and even criticizing your family for being so easily tricked into believing there'd been a fire in the first place? 

That is a fair analogy to the life and times of Republican Senator Joseph
McCarthy and the American public ("The Greatest Generation") who cheered him on as he probed the federal government for embedded Soviet spies at the highest levels of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. 

The House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) had been searching out Soviet agents in Hollywood and the government long before McCarthy began his hearings, but the activities of them all are now subsumed under the Democrats' spitting epithet "McCarthyism." 

Today, anyone who brings up the names of those spies and the proof of their
guilt, is instantly given the same treatment as Senator McCarthy. Anyone who
suggests that Communists intended the complete destruction and subjugation of America is given the same treatment. The charge of "McCarthyism" is launched whenever Americans defend their freedoms, traditions and values, or renew their committment to national security, yesterday under attack by the
U.S.S.R., today by Muslim terrorism. 

Ann Coulter, in her latest book, "Treason," writes a powerful indictment against the Democratic Party. She charges the party, beginning with Democratic presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman right up to the present, with aiding and abetting whoever attacks the United States, and themselves attacking whoever defends our form of government, and especially whoever attempts to hold the Democrats responsible for the consequences of their lack of patriotism.

Coulter says they never give up: "In the year 2003, the New York
Times cheerfully announced the introduction of a new, 'lighthearted'
journal about Communism. This is an ideology responsible for nearly 100
million murders, or -- as the Times put it -- a 'divisive ideology. How
about a 'lighthearted' journal about suicide bombing or Nazism, also
'divisive' ideologies? "  She notes the ongoing attempts as well by Hollywood
to whitewash  Communism: "Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford made the movie The Way We Were," portraying a "warm nostalgia for Communist traitors. They were hailed as martyrs, victims of 'McCarthyism.'"  

As Coulter notes "It is a curious fact that the most ridiculed public figures in America in the twentieth century have been those who posed the gravest danger to Communism....Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, and Ronald Reagan. The left's shameful refusal to admit collaboration with one of the great totalitarian regimes of the last century -- like their defense of Clinton -- quickly transformed into a vicious slander campaign against those who bore witness against them. Caught absolutely red-handed, liberals started in with their typical bellicose counterattacks."

The liberals demonstrated that knee-jerk inclination by immediately attacking
Coulter's book, accusing her of...what else? McCarthyism.  They went over
"Treason" sentence by sentence, word by word, finding only trifling errors,
but that didn't slow down their relentless assaults on her. 

Coulter's book provides a wealth of information about the anti-Americanism in the Democratic Party, and in her inimitable style -- sarcastic and contemptuous of those who are themselves pretty good at expressing contempt for America's defenders. Her endnotes include a wealth of references for confirming the truth of her accusations of 'treason' against the Democrats. 

"Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire
worldview.  Liberals promote the rights of Islamic fanatics for the same
reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists,
criminals, and Communists.  They instinctively root for anarchy and against
civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason."  

If Democrats do not want their loyalty to America questioned, they should stop defending those those who are dedicated to America's destruction, and stop attempting to undermine our resolve to defend this great nation. The Democrats should also take note that the myths they have concocted about past defenders of America are beginning to crumble under the kind of scrutiny Ann Coulter is encouraging in her books.

                                                      -- Peggy Whitcomb

© 2003 Peggy Whitcomb