COMMENTARY | Ann Coulter appeared on Fox News Channel's "Hannity" Tuesday evening (Dec. 13) and attempted to explain why she now believes that Mitt Romney is the Republican Party's only chance of defeating President Obama in the 2012 election. Although she dispensed with describing Sen. John McCain as a "douchebag" (a la MSNBC's "Morning Joe"), she did have a moment while defending her reasonings for altering her opinion of Romney as a viable candidate to reinforce her ultra-conservative credentials by joking that she would vote for Jeffrey Dahmer over the incumbent president.
Coulter told Hannity, "I'll support Jeffrey Dahmer against Obama." She added: "That isn't the question here. The question is how do we beat Obama? I think we beat Obama with the most conservative candidate and with the one who has been elected in a very liberal state..."
Coulter was defending Romney as the most conservative of the Republican candidates running for president. During the interview, she never quite got around to producing evidence that enabled her to go from stating in February that Republicans would lose with Romney as their nominee to how they would lose without him being the nominee. She also did not support her assertion that Romney was the the most conservative presidential hopeful. She did say that she now believes Obama has a "glass jaw," although she never revealed what that weakness was on "Hannity." Instead, Coulter denounced the other contenders, including referring to Newt Gingrich's constant foot-in-mouth bombasticism and calling him a "big government conservative."
Still, it speaks volumes that Coulter would prefer as president a dead serial killer over the sitting president. Besides, to Coulter, Obama is a godless liberal. (Does Coulter countenance any other kind of liberal?). Apparently any conservative, no matter how misguided, deranged, ignorant, and/or simply unqualified would still be a superior candidate to Obama.
Sean Hannity asked if she wanted to clarify for the liberals that she was joking, Coulter again took the classy route. "Screw them," she said.
Hannity, ever supportive, added, "They're too stupid." Laughter ensued.
Deriding the opposition to their ideology, often with ad hominem, spurious, and unsubstantiated remarks, is what people like Coulter and Hannity do. But it is very doubtful that even liberals are too stupid to realize that Mitt Romney is nowhere near the most conservative among the Republican candidates. And, one must ask, just how stupid does Ann Coulter think conservatives are?
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