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It's been obvious to me for some time that Coulter is playing too one-dimensional a game to actually be a "conservative".
I mean, she drives away some members of her own party who are even fractionally left of "full right", but that's not her mission. Her mission is clearly to ensure that the "Reagan Democrats" never, ever, come back to the Republican Party.
Although I am impressed technically with the ploy of sending a pretend foaming, rabid attack dog over to the other side to drive the non-rabid back to your own team, and I think Coulter certainly does this, I can't help at be dismayed at her other effect: planting hideously offensive slogans in the mouths of the mouth-breathing element on the right. Kill them, convert their children to Christianity sort of stuff.
So unless she's already gone "off the reservation" -- in which case the rabid dog analogy needs to come to its analogical conclusion -- could Coulter's Democrat handlers please broadcast the "deactivate" code? Your experiement worked. Setting up Coulter as a sort of Republican Howard Campbell Jr. was fun, and you pulled it off, but please read the rest of Vonnegut's "Mother Night". You are what you pretend to be.
