Let's not ignore Ann Coulter, lets make her the face of the GOP instead

As I am sure most of you have noticed Ann Coulter has been in the media a lot lately. I am sure most of you are sick of seeing her spew her hate on what passes for "the news" these days, and I am getting quite pissed off whenever I see her face as well. Yet while it disgusts me to see her, I am glad she is getting all the attention she is.

You may think I am crazy for thinking such a thing, and I personally don't blame you if you do. It takes a great deal of restraint to look at Ann's face on the television and not want to smash a hole in the screen sometimes.

I can understand why some people would just want to ignore her and hope she will go away, but I am telling you I think that is a mistake. Sure if we ignore her her book sales would probably drop, and she probably would not get as much screen time, but we have to ask ourselves are her book sales really hurting us or are they helping us?

When Ann Coulter hits the top of the best seller lists it says a great deal to the American people. Everyone who knows anything about Ann Coulter knows who her audience is, and they know very well that it is not us buying the books. It is the Republicans who are embracing her so heavily, and when she can sell more books than any other Republican out there that shows that she is the person that represents them better than any other.

And what does it tell you when the most heavily embraced Republican pundit is a person who tells us that 9/11 widows enjoyed their husbands' death? What does it tell you when Republicans embrace a person who openly called for the assassination of Bill Clinton while he was President, called for the assassination of a sitting Supreme Court justice, and said her "only regret" with Timothy McVeigh is that he did not blow up the New York Times building?

It tells you that the Republican's top pundit endorses terrorism, and that says a great deal about the Republican Party in general. What do you think the typical voter is going to think of this? Ann Coulter is extremely unpopular among virtually every non-wingnut who has the misfortune of hearing a single word spew from her vile mouth, she can not possibly be an asset for the Republicans.

So my advise is don't ignore her but instead point her out to everyone, and make the Republicans explain why they embrace someone who has openly supported Timothy McVeigh and called for the assassination of a sitting President.

Now don't get me wrong I don't like the idea of putting someone on TV who openly advocates terrorist attacks. The problem however is that her fan base is the only group of people who would actually follow her advise on such a tactic and they are going to hear her anyways. Even if we ignore her she will still probably keep writing and she will still probably have a lot of exposure on right-wing talk radio. We can not just allow her to spew her hate in such an unchallenged environment, instead we have to shine a light on her and say "look here, this is what the Republicans are endorsing". Once people are outraged enough, and believe me after those comments about the 9/11 widows the outrage is starting to spill into the general public, they are going to demand the Republicans denounce her. And when that happens the Republicans are going to be in a very bad spot. They will either have to embrace a known terrorist sympathizer, or they will have to denounce her which certainly has consequences of its own for them.

Ann Coulter may be one of the best weapons we have to defeat the Republicans, and she is too stupid and arrogant to even realize it. I say we give her more attention than she ever wanted.

(Edited to fix minor grammatical errors).

Let's make her the equivalent of the "Massachusetts liberal".

"I have no problems with real conservatives, but you're nothing but a Coulter Conservative."

But there are still a lot of people who don't know much about her, and I doubt many of them would like her if they learned. She is becoming the face of the party, but I don't think the public has fully figured out what that means yet. They will soon however if she keeps getting all the attention she has been getting lately.

but I have since changed my mind. Let's keep pointing out that Ann Coulter is THE face and voice of the Republican Party!

and hope they sink with her.

If they won't denounce her then they stand with her. It can be as simple as that. No hedging, no parsing. Denounce her or you agree with her.

She should be the face of the Republican Party. Because she really is. She says what they believe. They may be more subtle and diplomatic about it but at the end of the day it's the same shit. Put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig.

Mz Pip
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Coulter's hatefulness cannot possibly reflect well on those who worship her, namely Republican wingnuts. Let her go on TV all she wants! She makes our point about the awfulness of the right wing every time she opens her mouth.

In addition to making her the spokesman for the right, we need someone good to be a spokesman for what we believe. Wes Clark? Barack Obama? Give a moment's thought to the impression these people create in comparison to the emetic Coulter. Which side seems sane to you?

Who do you think would win in a popularity contest among the American people, Sean Penn or Ann Coulter?

Yet Sean Penn represents the type of people that they attack the hardest.

Lets defend our own that are attacked, and fight back by pointing out the type of ideology these people follow. Let the American people decide which side they like more.

For showing the true ugly colors of the right wing to the average American.

New stock phrase to be used when referring to the gop: "Ann Coulter-and-the-Republic party..."

That should be the phrase used by every Dem.

I'd much rather be a "Ted Kennedy Liberal" than an "Ann Coulter Republican."

They want to associate themselves with her bile, I say let's use it against them.