The virtuous Ann Coulter has decided that she doesn't much care for Todd Akin any longer. However should he "withdraw, honorably sacrificing his personal interests to save the country, it will be time for all good men to rally around Akin as an American patriot"--one drawing a handsome retirement from the very same, big-spending government for which he possesses nothing but a greedy contempt.
Coulter's affections are entirely pragmatic. Claire McCaskill, you see, is a "left-wing, tax-cheat sitting Democratic senator ... Chuck Schumer in a dress." Mr. Akin, on the other hand, is "probably a good Republican in many other ways"--which is Coulter's way of say that sure he's an imbecile, but his crime is that he's an inept imbecile: "a politician who should have a clear, nonthreatening answer at the ready for the most cliched question in the MSM’s playbook."
Why it is that the question that Akin was asked was "cliched" is another question altogether, one that pertains only to the creeping severity of Ann Coulter's paranoid schizophrenia. Her suggestion--if I read this singular flake of her blizzardly mental illness correctly--is that the question was demonically akin to the insufferability of the lamestream media having once asked Sarah Palin about her reading list. Oh, the horror of gotcha.
The variation in this case, though, was of course that the "gotcha" was a "cliche," according to Coulter, which means that Akin should have had his drooling simple-mindedness at the ready. That he did not, was unforgivable. Drool and simple-mindedness are OK, indeed Coulter encourages them. What she absolutely demands, though, is snappy simple-minded drool.
Isn't Ann Coulter part of the MSM that the right wingers love to hate? Aside from it's right wing agenda is Fox news somehow better or different from this MSM that right wingers like Ann and Sarah Palin are always whining about? And if the MSM is so horrible, then why are so many republicans like Ann and Sarah always so eager to get their faces on the receiving end of a news camera and their irritating voices recorded for the mainstream public to air their insufferable ignorance? It is just like the hypocritical republican office holders who grasp for every last bit of money and entitlements provided to them by the same government they claim to hate so much. Their message is really simple to anyone who wants to pay even marginal attention to them:
"The government is evil. I want to be part of it."
"The 'lamestream media' is evil. I want to be part of it".
Posted by: AnneJ | August 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Is this the same interview in which she said single women want the government to be their husbands, paying for everything?
I don't know how she loves with herself. What a con artist.
Posted by: You Don't Say | August 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Oops, lives with herself. ;-)
Wish you had an edit button.
Posted by: You Don't Say | August 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Is there anything less "conservative" Republican than the purely selfless act that Ms. Coulter! asks of Representative Akin? If he withdraws, he is out of a job and without much prospects, I presume. As P.M. points out, he might still win. If he sees it through, he will be calling Rove's hand, and Rove will spend the few million needed to assist a win.
Withdrawal helps someone lese, Romney and the people who own him, but it does precious little for Representative Akin. Let's give him a little credit. He knows who he is dealing with. So he should be a good "conservative" and ask, "What's in it for me?"
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | August 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Shorter Coulter- "Yay more face time for me. Sure... fall on your sword and don't forget to bleed over the bucket so I can fill my bathtub."
Pssst... Ann... it's not working.
Coulter, Aiken- all of them... just disgusting.
Posted by: Susan Zoon | August 21, 2012 at 11:24 AM