Yet Another Ann Coulter Classic

Ann Coulter just can't seem to get it through her head that sane people just don't say certain things.

A few months ago, Coulter published a feature in the conservative journal, HUMAN EVENTS, entitled "They Shot The Wrong Lincoln", an outrageous attack on then moderate Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, a decent and honest man who maybe didn't always vote the way that Coulter always likes. But her outlandish feature, which makes a ghoulish violence inference comparison with the brutal assassination of Abraham Lincoln is completely irresponsible. No responsible journalist should ever, ever, ever, make a violence inference against anyone. Period.

When Harriet Myers was under consideration in her ill-fated nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, instead of Coulter offering an intelligent analysis, she instead penned a hope that Justice John Paul Stevens could have a heart attack, so yet another supreme Court position becomes open. Yet another deeply offensive attack on a wholly decent and honest man who considers himself a conservative Republican, but is seen as one of the moderates on the U.S. Supreme Court. This represented a new breakthrough low for Coulter, as it broke ground for her to pen more death wishes against persons she personally disagrees with. It also allowed her to make the later outrageous Lincoln Chaffee remark.

Now this weekend, Coulter just couldn't help herself again and came up with a new zinger somehow comparing John Edwards, who keeps up a great public appearance, with in her own crummy choice of words, "faggots". When Coulter had an opportunity to apologize for her very disturbed and outrageous remark, she instead compounded her remarks by somehow claiming she should never have tarred Gays with John Edwards. Another clear outrage.

For one thing it is outrageous to refer to a minority group as "faggots". This wholly is offensive public language. Secondly, there has never been any question about the sexual identity of John Edwards. It is patently unfair to falsely label him any label that Coulter thinks may damage his political career by raising an absurd question not based in fact. This is a political lynch job smear of the very worst variety.

It should be up to voters to decide whether they like John Edwards or not, and whether to vote for him or not.

Coulter's remarks appear to be a variation on "swift boating". She raises an absurd notion, and it begins to raise unfair and absurd questions against candidate John Edwards. This is unfair and dirty politics of the very worst variety. Coulter is not offering any intelligent comment on any Edwards position, just an absurd and unfair attack that is meant to destruct someone she disagrees with.

This is the problem with the reactionaries of the far right in the Republican Party. Extremists like Coulter and some others, but cetainly not all, who attended this weekend's "conservative" conference are really neoBrown shirts and thugs, not the run-of-the-mill genuine "conservatives" as they would like to mislead others into believing. They only attempt to minimize their extremism by calling themselves "conservatives". In the 1960's members of The John Birch Society did the same thing. They refered to themselves as "conservatives" to minimize their extreme views on issues.

Thankfully, some like John McCain and Mitt Romney have been quick to condemn Coulter's remarks. Other responsible conservatives will as well. There should be no home in their Republican Party for political extremists like Coulter who wish the very worst to anyone she disagrees with as though she's some sort of political Voodoo priestess, out to "hex" anyone she wants out of her way. She's so self-righteous, that any that dare disagrree with her deserve her death wishes she surmises in her own warped psychology.

Coulter represents the battle for the soul of the Republican Party. It contains many extremist voters like Coulter who are merely outright reactionaries and not conservatives by any stretch of the imagination. This party must decide how important these extremists are, and whether to cut them free from acting as spokespersons for this party, and let them start a goofy small fringe party of some sort or not.

In simple words, extremists like Coulter are simply "bad for business" anywhere near the Republican Party. And her vulgar words will have a lasting impression over the self-proclaimed "conservative" conference for days to come. Coulter defined this conference with her outrageous attack, and she's too small of a person morally to admit her wrong.