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How Bad Is It? Even Ann Coulter Has Turned On Conservativesby Michelle Cottle Oct 15, 2013 2:40 PM EDT
The right-wing gadfly is on the attack againbut this time she's going after her fellow nutjobs. Michelle Cottle on what the freak-out reveals about the GOP's splintered base.
On Monday, conservative provocateur Ann Coulter visited Sean Hannity for a plug-her-latest-book sitdown, during which her host tossed out what he no doubt assumed would a typical conservative-colleagues-in-arms softball: Establishment Republicans are at war with the Tea Party base, and Im angry about it! But Coulter slammed it, so to speak, to the opposite field, going on a tear against Newt Gingrich, Todd Akin, Mark Sanford, and Liz Cheney, whom she declared to be hucksters, shysters, and people ripping off the Republican Party for their own self-aggrandizement, for their own egos, to make money.
(ummm, look in the mirror Ann?)
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.....Part of what made her rant so interesting was that it clearly caught her host off guard. When Hannity expressed dissatisfaction with the current intramural GOP warfare, he was inviting Coulter to tear into the soft underbelly of people like Sen. John McCain, Rep. Peter King, and other assorted RINO squishes who dont believe that crashing the global economy is the best way to run a nation. Instead, Coulter gouged a string of fellow conservatives, leaving Hannity struggling to get a word in edgewise. Coulter heaped special scorn on Dick Cheneys elder daughter. Why should we be havingand I love Liz Cheneybut why should we be having a rancorous primary against a good Republican senator other than for Liz Cheneys ego? she demanded. This put poor Hannity, a loud-and-proud Liz fan, in an awkward position. But when he gently protested that, far from being an egomaniacal climber Liz Cheney is genuinely more conservative than her opponent Mike Enzi, Coulter slapped him down: No, she isnt. Hannity was left to whine meekly, Shes not a shyster, so lets be clear.
more juice:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/15/how-bad-is-it-even-ann-coulter-has-turned-on-conservatives.html
CincyDem
(6,416 posts)...Ann Coulter starts looking like the strategic thinker in the room.
gordianot
(15,249 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)tavernier
(12,410 posts)they will be amongst the debris that is hauled off to the dump first.
This is Annie's effort to step to the curb and point her finger at whatever brick is in her line of vision.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
Orsino
(37,428 posts)It requires ever-escalating venom and stupidity, and often tars right-wingers. She's just selling a brand, and we shouldn't read too much into her gibberish.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)With none of the integrity of the adult entertainment industry.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)Those hucksters and shysters all deserve each other. I long for the day when we get to see them tear each other apart.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)But an evil shyster. Trotted out like a show dog on a leash, for grifting. Somebody ought to trot her back in.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)bluedeathray
(511 posts)If such a cold cruel vicious woman was capable of maternal action.
Even CONservatives don't like her...
...the Arizona Daily Star dropped Coulter's syndicated column citing reader complaints that "Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives"...
...She also said, "Christianity fuels everything I write....
...She then mocked "the message of Jesus...according to liberals", summarizing it as "something along the lines of 'be nice to people,'" which, in turn, she said "is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity".[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_coulter