Ann Coulter: Amazon Woman of the Loons Edition

The 'Heart and Soul' of the Fading Neoconservative GOP, She Just Announced the Bush Choice for the Party's Next Presidential Nominee

"I am happy to hear that after you hear from me, you will hear from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!"
-- Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention, March 2, 2007, as quoted by Jamison Foser at Media Matters.

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. But it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot' -- so I'm kind of at an impasse."
-- Ann Coulter in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 2, 2007. From Salon.com.

March 5, 2007 -- While the mainstream media have been grudgingly covering Coulter's using the offensive word 'faggot' in connection with John Edwards, and leading Republican presidential candidates Giuliani, McCain and Romney have belatedly denounced her 'witty' speech-closer at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday, other notable news connected to her appearance at the event missed their attention.

First off, as CPAC attendee Andrew Sullivan has said: "When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young." Not only that, but she is the voice of the Bush family -- the ugly, dark side of elitist authoritarianism, rancorous homophobia, country club racism and vengeful bile that runs deep beneath the genteel political surface of the Bush clan.

Followers of Ann's fetid public career know that she never criticizes any Bush, at least not with the vituperation she reserves for Dems, liberals, Muslims, and Republicans who don't toe the neocon line. She has consistently been the shrill hateful voice of the far right, which has gained her what Glenn Greenwald calls "rock star-adoration by the party faithful." He also noted that "She is the face of what the hard-core Republican Party has become, particularly during the Bush presidency. That is why she holds the position she holds in that movement." Greenwald added:

"The more Ann Coulter says these things, the more popular she becomes in this movement. What this is about is that she reflects exactly what sort of political movement this is. She reflects its true impulses and core beliefs."

But she also represents the core beliefs of the Bush family and the Money Men of the GOP, which is why she's backing ersatz 'moderate' Mitt Romney:

"What do I think of Governor Romney's candidacy for presidency? I think he's probably our best candidate." [...] "And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy -- I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily."
-- Ann Coulter, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference March 2, 2007, as quoted by Media Matters.

(Sure she does. She also likes people who hoodwink conservatives, as she's been doing for years.)

In Florida, Bush operatives have lately been pumping state party insiders for Mitt and even though Jeb himself has aristocratically stayed out of the fray, it's obvious he's behind Romney's coronation. Coulter, still popular among the dwindling seethers of the neocon GOP, got her Bush-stamped marching orders and delivered her endorsement speech to CPAC -- watch now as the former Massachusetts Governor's numbers start moving up. The Bushes could never back that 'nasty little man' McCain who has said so many terrible things about President Junior, and Giuliani's much too liberal to be nominated by the party faithful, so the nominee's victory sash is awarded to plucked-from-near-obscurity Romney, a monkey who will gladly dance to the Bush corporatist tune.

Another incident involving the woman who thinks a 'little local facism' is a good thing was the unceremonious removal of Dan Borchers from the CPAC convention hall by Ann's goon squad, as reported at the Lydia Cornell website. Four burly men shoved and wrestled Borchers out of the place, cutting his hand while they tried to rip the convention credentials from around his neck, with a camera tagging along to record the gory details. (At what neo-American Bundt conclave will that video be shown?) When Borchers asked the thugs why they were doing this to him, they replied, "You are not permitted to be here."

Borchers is a conservative Christian military veteran and lifelong Republican, reportedly a humble and mild-mannered man who has written articles critical of Coulter's penchant for plagiarism and believes the bilious hate-speech typified by the amoral Coulter is ruining the Republican Party. His apparent crime against Ann that night was asking another conservative author what he knew regarding Coulter's connection to the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton, the case that first brought her to national attention.

Coulter's been fairly quiet since the November 2006 election, and her audience is shrinking along with Bush's popularity as the nation rejects the failed neocon ideology. She can still draw a crowd, but the crowds are smaller and less enthusiastic. Like Britney Spears, she is now reduced to staging increasingly outrageous publicity stunts to spark up her dying career and sell her remaindered books.

What's she going to do next to attract headlines? Maybe she'll shave her head and go into rehab for using the 'N' word to describe Barack Obama.

Will Fox News chuckle about her 'outrageous' behavior then, I wonder -- and will NBC welcome her on The Today Show to trade quips with Matt Lauer?