A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is changing and now they’re lashing out. What about the idealized past liberals cling to? They all act as if they were civil rights foot soldiers constantly getting beat up by 500-pound southern sheriffs, while every twenty-year-old Republican today is treated as if he is on Team Bull Connor. At best, the struggle for civil rights was an intra-Democratic Party fight. More accurately, it was Republicans and blacks fighting Democrat segregationists and enablers.

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Coulter is the author of eight books all of which have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list with a combined 3 million copies sold as of May 2009. Edwards responded on his web site by characterizing Coulter's words as "un-American and indefensible" and asking readers to help him "raise $100000 in 'Coulter Cash' this week to keep this campaign charging ahead and fight back against the politics of bigotry. The e-mail warned that "promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate but could in fact lead to criminal charges.

Coulter rose to prominence as a talking head in the 1990s as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator eight-time best-selling author syndicated columnist and lawyer. Well known for her conservative political opinions and the controversial ways in which Ann Coulter presents and defends them Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot" and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced as broadcasters do" sometimes drawing criticism from the right as well as the left.