Notes from Evil Bender

Shorter Ann Coulter: Huckabee’s problem is that he’s not wingnutty enough December 21, 2007

Posted by Evil Bender in Religion, Science, wingnuts.
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That’s right, folks, Ann Coulter, already irrelevant to anyone with a brain, is working on alienating even those who should be her base: supporters of the Mike “put teh Gays in camp” Huckabee. It seems he’s just not conservative enough for Coulter:

As far as I can tell, it’s mostly secular liberals swooning over Huckabee. Liberals adore Huckabee because he fits their image of what an evangelical should be: stupid and easily led.

Looks like Ann has joined the list of many prominent conservatives who aren’t eager to pay the price for pandering to the fundie crowd.

The media are transfixed by the fact that Huckabee says he doesn’t believe in evolution. Neither do I, for reasons detailed in approximately one-third of my No. 1 New York Times best-selling book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. 

I love that this paragraph comes right after the one where she calls the Huckster “stupid.” Fitting that she’d then turn to their area of greatest agreement: that science is Teh Evil. Somebody better warn Coulter that most fundies don’t have any used for the stealth Creationism of her BFF Dembski.  But she probably doesn’t care, given that she’s the type of person who would use an attack on Hucakbee to shill her crappy book.

(I think PZ’s still waiting for takers on his challenge to Coulter-lovers, btw)

She goes on to blather about how knowledgeable she is about evolution, how global warming is a fraud, and how states rights means the government should have the right to tell us which orifices we’re allowed to put phalluses into.

Sorry, Ann: you might be upset that your anti-freedom, anti-education, anti-science and anti-knowledge pandering has resulted in weak candidates, but you made that bed. If I were a prominent fiscal conservative, I too would be pissed that my party was being run by authoritarians like Huckabee and anti-liberty hacks like you, Ann. But those who have eagerly watched Republicans exploit fundies in order to secure a string of upper-class tax cuts are now paying the price for it.

And I must say, I’m loving every minute of it.