Coulter criticizes Walker

Ace of Spades with an analysis of Coulter's analysis of Scott Walker.

She makes some good points.

Her belief is that this is a crucial fight with implications for the nation and its future, and while Walker did well on the substance of the policy, he failed as regards the public persuasion part of it.

She thinks Walker should have been on TV "every night" to explain this to Wisconsinites, citing government worker abuses like the one's she writes about in her latest column. Such as a bus driver making $159,000 per year (more than $100 K in overtime).

Or the rule, "negotiated" with politicians looking for union donations, that if a public employee takes a single call of even a second's duration, that employee may bill the state for a half hour of overtime pay.

So if an employee calls out sick for two days, and the boss calls to ask if she'll be at work the next day, that's a half hour of overtime.

Ridonculous.

She keeps contrasting Walker to her obvious favorite, Chris Christie, noting that Chris Christie never would have gone dark during such a crucial fight.

Here is the point she doesn't actually make but should: Republicans have gotten into a bad habit of flinching from public fights. Commenters tell me this every day, and I think they're right.

Republicans assume from the outset that they cannot win the media war as the media itself is too biased against them to even get their words out, and that the natural stupidity of the American people makes them suckers for the Democrats' promises of endless hand-outs and Buy Now, Pay Later funding schemes.

Personally, I believe the reason most republicans cave in on principle is because they don't actually believe in principle. When you believe in what you are doing is right you don't worry about what the media says about you. You take the message to the people, as Christie is doing in New Jersey.

When you believe in a cause no media in the world can twist your passion.

When you believe in being republican because it's better than a day job, you have to spin your communication in your own mind. Usually that means that no cause is worth fighting for..... except your political survival.

That's usually why I hate republicans more than democrats.

IT'S THE PRINCIPLE STUPID!

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