Ann Coulter

I'm not blogging on Ann Coulter, and you can't make me.

I do have to say, however, that there is some illogic in the position that some have taken that says, well, look at Bill Maher and what he said about the assassination attempt against Dick Cheney, that's just as bad.

1. Two wrongs, if I recall, do not make a right.
2. Maher was speaking on TV as a TV host. He's a jerk, but he's a jerk without portfolio. Coulter was speaking at an important Republican event, the CPAC convention, at which, not incidentally, all but one of the major Republican Presidential candidates spoke. There is a difference between a bear shitting in the woods and a bear shitting in your living room.

Republicans need to be cleaner than Democrats. Partly that is tactical -- given the MSM biases, we have to be cleaner, or they'll make us look dirtier. But mostly it is just a moral point -- when the political language becomes debased, the culture will become debased. Conservatives are supposed to stand against the debasement of culture and for seriousness. We are the adult party. We're supposed to do better than this.