Well, gang, I never thought I would say this, but we all owe a big thank you to the organizers of the 2007 CPAC Hate Camp for Conservatives.  As liberal combatants in the "War of Ideas", CPAC has provided us with ammunition that we can use against the Right Wing for years to come. 

Yes, from Michelle Malkin getting an award for "Accuracy in Journalism" (If that's not a lethal virus-load of irony, I don't know what is.) to Ann Coulter being, well, her usual factless, feckless, soundbite-whoring sea donkey self to Dick Cheney's stubborn refusal to let reality interfere with his view of the world and the "Great War on Terrah", oh yes, CPAC has trained the biggest, brightest kleig lights you could ask for on the slimy, seedy, paranoid, reactionary, reality-averse, self-aggrandizing, racist, bitchy, moronic Conservative Movement in this country.

Watch the documentary video above by The Nation's Max Blumenthal.  Is it any surprise to anyone that this is a dying, dispirited movement?  Look at them.  They all have that same sparkle of panic in their eyes.  Even David Horowitz looks scared, the man whose fatuous insistence on reading and believing his own hype is generally so intractable as to require surgical intervention. 

Yes for all their smugness and preening, the Right is in deep, deep dookie and they know it.  Their candidates are losers, adulterers, and religious crackpots.  John McCain couldn't even be bothered to attend this fun-filled weekend of racist rants, junior-high playground taunts, hair-flipping, and locker-slamming.  (I wonder if this is the first step to him dropping out of the race.)

Coulter's f-bomb on Friday really takes the tiara for the whole weekend, though.  The woman is so clearly nearing the end of her media shelf-life. The things she keeps saying are getting more and more outrageously stupid and nonsensical.  Poor old skanky thing.  

But I really feel like we owe her a big thank-you.  With one ill-considered fag joke, she has completely obviated the need for any further debate about the "Lack of Civility on the Left".  The next time someone on either side gets all up in your grille for being a bomb-throwing liberal with no manners, just point at that bleach-blonde pile of sticks in the crusty black cocktail dress and say, "When she turns civil, I will.  Until then, the goddamn gloves are off.  You got a problem with the level of discourse, take it up with her.  Now go away, kid, you're fuckin' bothering me."

The candidates are already beginning to try to distance themselves from her.  Typically, though, they've made tepid, piss-weak statements hoping against hope that they will have their intended emollient effect, and given the hall passes that Big Media hands out to Republicans like candy, it's going to be up to us to continue to bring the pain.  We need to send people to every campaign stop to ask questions like, "Mr. Giuliani, do you agree with Ann Coulter that the 9/11 widows are 'whores' who are glad their husbands are dead so they can be famous?" and "Governor Romney, what more accurately reflects your views on homosexuality, your prior statements saying that gay rights are human rights, or the statements made by Ann Coulter after you introduced her at the 2007 CPAC event in March?"

Coulter is never going to shut up, you know.  We will never manage to pull her completley off the media teat.  (Judging from the looks of her, it may be her sole source of nutrition.)  However, I think that if we organize, we can subject her to the Death of a Thousand Cuts and significantly diminish her media footprint.

The Coultergeist is syndicated to hundreds of newspapers through Universal Press Syndicate, who also carry Dobson, Dear Abby, Maggie Gallagher and others.  If we can kick up a fuss in her local markets through the papers who carry her, we may be able to get her dropped from some of them.  And if Universal Press thinks that she's becoming a liability, perhaps they will drop her altogether.

This will be a campaign and it could take some months, but frankly, I think you guys are up to it.  We need to target her market by market, ideally getting readers in each area to take it up with both Universal Press and the local paper.  So, first we need to pick a big city with a decent-sized gay population where she's in the paper each day.  Is she in the paper in your town?  Are you ready?  

It's time for our side to claim some fucking scalps, and I can't think of a single nasty-ass bleach job I'd rather have hanging on my wall than hers.

Who's with me?

ATTACK!!

ATTACK!!

ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!

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