Faggot

So, yeah, I have nothing to say about Ann Coulter, but I did want to point readers to a pretty great response by Andrew Sullivan to her appearance on Hannity & Colmes last night.

And yesterday I had a thought. (I know, it's crazy.) What if Ann Coulter is actually a totally left-leaning crazy liberal, and this whole screaming banshee act she has going on is just that: an act? What if she's intentionally, by playing a role and being a martyr, actively (in cognito) simply demonstrating how bigoted, racist, homophobic, hateful, and dumb the far right and most Republicans are? Now that even Republicans are starting to denounce her for making them look bad (not that they need any of her help!), her plan would seem to be starting to work.

What if she's really a hero?



UPDATE: I just read this, further down the scroll on Sullivan's site, from some other dude:

The political equivalent of Britney Spears shaving the hair off her head, Ann Coulter made headlines at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by calling Democrat John Edwards a faggot. Wearing a leather dress and a Christian cross around her neck, Coulter must be a liberal infiltrator whose purpose is to give conservatism a bad name.

I really felt sorry for those Republican presidential candidates who attended CPAC and were forced by the liberal media to respond to Coulter's remarks. It's guilt-by-association, but Coulter had to know that making such a remark would put those candidates in an uncomfortable, even embarrassing, position. As a former staffer and contributing editor of Human Events, I can't understand why this conservative weekly publication continues to feature her on the masthead as a "legal affairs correspondent" and puts her columns on page one. Jed Babbin, the new editor, must be sick to his stomach. Coulter's columns are anything but legal analysis.

Infiltrator: that's a good word I should have used.