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Conservatives Warn of Leftist Dirty Tricks NewsMax.com WiresARLINGTON, Va. (UPI) - People gathered at the 28th annual Conservative Political Action Conference were warned Thursday to gird against the political left, which is preparing for a fight that will begin with class-warfare attacks on the Bush tax plan. Panelists David Horowitz and Ann Coulter offered scathing criticism of Democrats, suggesting that the only way for conservatives to approach the coming political debates is to acknowledge to themselves that the other side will fight dirty. Horowitz, president of the Center for Popular Culture, said "the Democrats are a politically bankrupt party who have not come up with a new public policy idea since the 1930s." A best-selling author and former leftist who is a leader in "the second thoughts movement," Horowitz told the assembled crowd to expect the 2002 election to be particularly nasty. "In 2002, the left will say: 'They stole the election. They denied the vote to Holocaust survivors and descendants of slaves.' The Republican response will be, 'They tried to count pregnant chads.' Who has the better argument for motivating voters?" Horowitz asked. Horowitz counseled conservatives and Republicans to take a confrontational tone in defense of their positions. "Republicans are too polite to mention" Chappequidick, referring to the 1969 political scandal in which a female passenger drowned in a car driven off a bridge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., "but the mere fact that Teddy Kennedy is sitting on the Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment of John Ashcroft, is an outrage." Serious conservatives need to find ways to demonstrate that their public policy prescriptions work and that liberal notions have failed, he said. "Everything that is wrong in the inner city," which Horowitz said had been run at every level by Democrats for the last 50 years, "the Democrats have done to poor black and Hispanic people." If Republicans are to succeed, they "need to recruit more minority candidates," addressing issues of politics and symbolism. Democrats 'Racist' "We need to turn the tables. The Democratic Party is a racist party. It is a party that will fight to the death to defend racial preferences, which means people get jobs and university admissions on the basis of their skin color." Best-selling author and conservative Ann Coulter offered a humorous take on what most of the assembled group believe to be a serious issue. "I think Bush is doing a fine job dealing with the liberal media. What Bush figured out is how easy it is to hornswoggle the liberal media," she said. "What he figured out was that all you had to do was go around and call yourself nice." And, in that respect, "Bush is like a runaway train, pushing through his agenda with great success," she said. In Coulter's analysis, "the mistake Republicans have been making for years has been to treat Democrats like adults," she said to thunderous laughter from the crowd. "It took George W. Bush … to demonstrate that all you had to do was treat them in an age-appropriate manner." The best advice for debating the left, Coulter says, is for conservatives to realize that "it is futile to have a serious public policy argument with grumpy liberals muttering imprecation," a sentiment the group seemed to greatly appreciate. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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