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

[MADem]

I found this hilarious...they really ARE eating their own!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/15/how-bad-is-it-even-ann-coulter-has-turned-on-conservatives.html

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.”

First, let us give the requisite nod to the rich irony of one of the GOP’s most cynical button-pushers professing outrage over ambitious conservatives’ desire to profit personally at the expense of the party’s greater good. This is, after all, a woman who has grown rich and famous fueling Republicans’ image as a pack of extremist nutjobs with made-to-inflame statements such as: “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks”; “We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say”; “I have never seen people”—meaning the 9/11 widows—“enjoying their husbands’ death so much”; “I don’t really like to think of it as murder. It was terminating [abortion provider George] Tiller in the 203rd trimester”; “I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East, and sending liberals to Guantanamo”; and “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president.”

Now that that’s out of the way, back to Coulter’s tête-à-tête with Hannity. 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.”

......That said, Coulter’s scatter-shot attack was telling, as was Hannity’s half-hearted pushback. A master of exploiting the political zeitgeist, Coulter understands that smacking fellow Republicans is the hot trend, and she is too savvy a (cough) huckster to miss such an opportunity. But, as the chaos spirals, Republicans seem to be having an ever-harder time figuring out where it is they want to point fingers or lob bombs. Everyone in the party is fed up with everyone else, and no one seems to have any idea how to stop the madness. Even folks like Coulter and Hannity, who have done so much to create the contemporary climate of over-the-top GOP crazy, can’t agree on how to deal with what they have created. How do you get Frankenstein’s monster back under control when no one can even agree on who the monster is?

[MindMover]

1. Anyone that is seriously listening to these doofusses have real issues to address ...

The whole right wing part of America is only for entertainment purposes .... from now on ....

[flamingdem]

4. I must admit to the guilty pleasure of enjoying their mental debauchery

at least when they lose!

This one has been stellar thanks to their new super clown Ted Cruz.

[MADem]

9. I had to chuckle too, when I saw this--it's about damn time, I must say. nt

[MADem]

15. She wants to keep making money, so she's playing her cards to wind up on the side of the people who

have money to spend buying her tripe in bulk....

[Eleanors38]

2. HA! She lets a RumbleStiltskin from under her sheets, then complains of the stench.

[Blue Owl]

3. AnnThrax in the guacamole

Enjoy that with your tortilla lunch!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. Does anyone else find this ironic?

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.”

Um, hello, Ann Coulter, are you there?

[MADem]

10. My thought was "Whoever smelt it, dealt it, Annie!" nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. You can rest assured ...

... that if it stinks, it's Ann.

[Jacoby365]

6. Well, I watched that segment just for amusement,

and Coulter is no longer on the Chris Christie bandwagon, but she is on the Ted Cruz bandwagon. So what does that say about Ann Coulter?

[MADem]

14. For amusement, you say? Were you amused? What it says about AC is what the blurb says at the top

of the piece--this sums it up:

[FONT SIZE=+3]The right-wing gadfly is on the attack again—but this time she's going after her fellow nutjobs.[/FONT]

[Yavin4]

7. How many hate books can she write?

Every time I turn around, she's got another one out. She cranks them out faster than a Chinese factory worker.

[MADem]

11. She should send them to Venezuela--they're enduring a serious toilet paper shortage over that way.

The paper may be a bit firm, but while one is straining at one's stool, one could crumple the paper vigorously and repeatedly in order to soften it up for the eventual wipe!

Hell, it would beat, say, corncobs or dried leaves!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. I have an ear to ear grin after reading that. If I smoked

I'd need to have a cig right about now.

[MADem]

12. Ha ha ha! nt