"Everything you've just said was said yesterday. "You guy just don't get it," blah, blah, blah.... No sale today, either."
The truth is funny that way. It doesn't change from day to day.
And of course you already knew about this clip I posted. Sure you did. (If I wasn't so lazy I'd go through and try to find the threads where everyone was whooping it up about Ann's jokes. Probably including you.)
But good for you for plugging your ears and sticking to your jihad.
You're right. It really will help the cause so much.
Let's see... Limbaugh's a drug addict, Coulter's a bigot... Who shall we destroy next to improve the conservative movement?
If Ann's "destroyed," as you put it, she did it to herself. I doubt, though, that she's irretrievably harmed herself. It depends on her follow-up.
Do you want the whole list? (half kidding)
Seriously. I have no problem at all with knocking the pegs out from under wingnuts, ego maniacs, demagogues, pandering populists, rabble rousers, intellectually dishonest pundits, etc.
Just because there's a shameless double standard which often protects extremists and nuts on the left from marginalization and public rebuke (the anachronistic but still effective "red baiting" taboo) doesn't mean that we shouldn't police our own ranks and demand higher standards of those that deserve our support as conservatives.
I happen to believe that one of the reasons conservatism has thrived is because we've done this in the past. I don't think it's a coincidence, for instance, that the conservative movement started to take off in the late 60's after Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater and others decided to disassociate themselves from and marginalize the previously influential John Bircher wingnuts.
No, I don't think Coulter is anywhere near as extreme as the Birchers, but she is rude, unconvincing to anyone not already convinced, intellectually dishonest and often false or slovenly in her research. At best she's serviceable as a kind of rodeo clown (irritating leftists and making them charge in the wrong direction).