CPAC

The same CPAC that our President, vice-President and the potential Republican nominee attended. The same CPAC that "didn't officially invite her", yet is letting her speak (kind of like water boarding is adventures in swimming). Think Progress has this little bit of her words today:

CROWD: (Applause) We love you Ann!

COULTER: I should give you an Edwards joke for that. [...]

Hillary wanted [to change her campaign song to] "I am woman," but it was already taken by Edwards.

So there you have it - all the outrage from the right wingers over Coulter's comments last year was nothing but a show. They love her (hell they said it) and let her speak again this year.

That's what he told CPAC. Translation - "Give me a third term - I got more debt to rack up!"

Where all the good little robots line up and act accordingly:

CPAC it seems, is directing its loyal goers to not boo McCain. They must be more excited that McCain has finally signed on to appear after years of snubs than they want to let on.

During registration last night at the Omni Shoreham a registrant was asking to upgrade his CPAC package and then proceeded to ask what time GOP front-runner John McCain was going to speak today. "Oh good," he said to the response - answer: 3 p.m. today - "I hope they boo him out of the room."

"No, no no no no" came the reply from the person registering him. "We've been instructed to tell participants not to boo McCain."

Repeat to yourself numerous times; "I will not boo McCain". Good - now the next line; "Bush is great, Bush is God". Now you to are a ditto head!

Robert Novak has a column today questioning McCain's conservative credentials. Nothing shocking there - all the neo-cons are doing the same, but something did catch my eye:

McCain as the Republican nominee would need those "very conservative" voters. He will encounter some of them at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Feb. 7-9. His campaign asked yesterday for McCain to be able to speak there after rejecting an invitation to last year's meeting. At CPAC, he might well consider providing "straight talk" about Samuel Alito and promising to veto any tax increase passed by a Democratic Congress.

So last year he didn't want anything to do with them, but this year he wants in? Either he plans on using them to gain some support, or he really hopes to see Ann Coulter there making more "fag" jokes. If I do the super secret, gay hating, war mongering handshake can I get in too?

Their has been a lot of buzz the last few days over Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a "faggot". I chose not to cover it because I feel that the more publicity Coulter gets, the more fuel she has for her outlandish comments. Today I had to cave because of Keith Olbermann, who took time from his vacation last night to call in the World's Worst on Countdown.

We got Limbaugh saying that Obama owns Al Sharpton because Obama has a history of slave owners in his family and Sharpton's family was once owned by Strom. Coulter and her "faggot" comment earns her the top honor, while Gingrich showed his true hatred with this comment:

How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

A great job by Max Blumenthal