How Bad Is It? Even Ann Coulter Has Turned On Conservatives

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How Bad Is It? Even Ann Coulter Has Turned On Conservatives
by Michelle Cottle Oct 15, 2013 2:40 PM EDT

The right-wing gadfly is on the attack again—but 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 I’m 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 don’t 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 Cheney’s elder daughter. “Why should we be having—and I love Liz Cheney—but why should we be having a rancorous primary against a good Republican senator other than for Liz Cheney’s 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 isn’t.” Hannity was left to whine meekly, “She’s not a shyster, so let’s 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]

1. You know it's getting bad when...

...Ann Coulter starts looking like the strategic thinker in the room.

[gordianot]

2. Along with Pat Robertson this is stunning.

[Xyzse]

3. Frickin scary isn't it?

[tavernier]

4. They are afraid that when the whole thing tumbles

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]

5. I am happy to pull out the popcorn for this one. n/t

-Laelth

[randome]

6. Is this the 'Fall of the Berlin Wall' moment?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Orsino]

7. That's her job, to turn them on.

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]

12. Basically she's a rightwing fluffer.

[Orsino]

14. Political porn star.

With none of the integrity of the adult entertainment industry.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. That's hilarious!

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]

9. They must be cutting into her bottom line. nt

[libodem]

10. Oh, she's not just a shyster

But an evil shyster. Trotted out like a show dog on a leash, for grifting. Somebody ought to trot her back in.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. What we're seeing is the separation of the genuine crazies from the "balance sheet" crazies. nt

[bluedeathray]

13. She would eat her own young

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