Edwards Questions Obama’s Masculinity

Mark Halperin reports that John Edwards "has real questions about [Barack] Obama's toughness, his readiness for the office. He has real doubts about Obama, not just as a president, but as a general election candidate." Apparently, Edwards summed this up with a one-word epithet that is also used to describe kitty cats and female sex parts. Halperin has subsequently ...

Ann Coulter Calls Obama ‘Least Dangerous’ Hussein

Ann Coulter's speech this year wasn't on the official CPAC docket but was instead sponsored by the Young America's Foundation and others. Still, there was a packed house with long lines that I wouldn't have bothered to stand in were I not able to bypass them with press credentials. As is her shtick, she threw plenty of grenades and ...

Ann Coulter Not (Officially) Invited to CPAC 2008

I've been invited once again to be an official blogger at CPAC, the premier gathering of American conservatives sponsored by the American Conservative Union. I'm swamped with a project at work but hope to be able to make it to a few sessions; thankfully, it's only a couple miles away from the office. Among the speakers on the conference ...

Goldberg, Coulter, and Savage

Goldberg, Kevin Holtsberry, and Steve Dillard take exception to the assertion in my recent post on The Conservative Minority that "the modern Conservative Moment seems to be dominated by the shrill nonsense of Coulter and Jonah Goldberg and Michael Savage and Neil Boortz." First, it's a good sign that conservatives at least recognize that being associated with these people ...

The Conservative Minority

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse on the issue, but the continued high pitched battle between conservative Republicans who have rallied around conservative-come-lately Mitt Romney in hopes of defeating Teddy Kennedy's Good Friend John McCain remains the most interesting story this election cycle. Conservatives Love Romney The most recent Rasmussen poll shows that "Romney leads by sixteen percentage points ...

Conservatives Against McCain

Judging by the enemies he's making, I'm liking John McCain more with each passing day. Ann Coulter says she'd "campaign for" Hillary Clinton, who she thinks "is more conservative." Meanwhile, Glenn Beck is railing against "Juan McCain" for his outreach to Hispanics. Thankfully, this over-the-top stuff is being rejected by most conservatives. AllahPundit calls Coulter's statement "Madness" and Sean Hackbarth, late ...

Peggy Noonan on John Edwards’ Hair Poofing

Peggy Noonan sizes up the presidential field for "Reasonable Person" qualities and passes all of the major candidates except Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Her reasoning on Clinton is, frankly, unreasonable: Because she's polarizing, she wouldn't be able to rally the nation in a crisis. By that standard, of course, the current president isn't "reasonable," either. This is ...

Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christians

Media Matters has manufactured yet another Outrage of the Day: Ann Coulter, a self-professed Christian, wants everyone else to become a Christian, too! During the October 8 edition of CNBC's The Big Idea, host Donny Deutsch asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter: "If you had your way ... and your dreams, which are genuine, came true ... what would this ...

Civility, Hypocrisy, and the Rules of Political Debate

Glenn Greenwald argues that many of those now condemning MoveOn.org and/or demanding that Democrats condemn MoveOn.org for suggesting General David Petraeus would "betray us" are hypocrites, since many have used inflammatory rhetoric themselves. He's surely right in many particulars. Those on the Ann Coulter wing of the Right, who routinely throw around words like "traitors" and "treason" to describe mainstream ...

Ann Coulter: Democratic Fundraiser

John Edwards raised "$450,000 from 2,300 donors within 24 hours" after his wife confronted Ann Coulter on "Hardball," John Harwood reports. One wonders if that will give Coulter's defenders pause? via Taegan Goddard

Why We Can’t Ignore the Kooks

David Adesnik wonders, To what extent does criticism, no matter how harsh or how justified, only build [Michael] Moore up into a bigger celebrity? If one wanted to completely marginalize a public figure, how would one go about it? The answer is not that if you ignore him, he'll go away. Rather, I think the challenge is to ensure that ...

Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Ann Coulter

Elizabeth Edwards called in to "Hardball" yesterday afternoon to confront Ann Coulter. Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks," a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists. "The things she has said over the years, not just about John but about other candidates, ...

Coulter Spouts Racist Bile

Via WorldNetDaily we have Ann Coulter in all her glory: Bush's America: Roach motel in which she rants about immigration. The grandest irony in the piece is that in the second paragraph she ponders:I don't know why conservatives like Linda Chavez have to argue like liberals by smearing their opponents as racists. She then launches into an incoherent argument that Ted ...

Free Speech Includes Offensive Jokes!

Big Tent Democrat rightly excoriates Frank Rich for hypocrisy in denouncing Don Imus only after he could no longer benefit from using his show for self-promotion. His conclusion, however, is troubling: And to call this a free speech issue is a joke. We're supposed to worry about the freedom to tell racist and sexist jokes? Hell yes. Indeed, if "free speech" ...

DeLay Appointed to ACU Board, Four Resign

Four board members of the American Conservative Union have resigned in protest over disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's appointment to the board. As Tom DeLay pursues a return to the public stage, he's meeting resistance from an unexpected source: conservatives who say that he betrayed the movement as a congressional leader. Four board members of the American Conservative Union, ...