Conservative Bloggers Set to Dump Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is brash, over the top and at times brilliant.  But the pin-thin blonde may have worn out her welcome with conservative bloggers by dropping the 'f-bomb' on John Edwards.  Here's how syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin described it right after her words hit.  "Ann Coulter just finished her riff on Al Gore, tossed out some cute jokes ("You can understand why Hollywood is concerned about global warming. You know what heat does to plastic."), and ended with a cheap one-liner about John Edwards being a "faggot." (Paraphrasing) She said she would refrain from commenting on Edwards because "if you say faggot, you have to go to rehab."

Conservative Bloggers Set to Dump Ann Coulter

"(There was) a smattering of laughter, but not from this corner.  (There are only) crickets chirping," writes Malkin.  It wasn't funny, or even clever.  I got a good chuckle out of Meg Hughes column telling Barbara Walters to hire Ann Coulter over at 'The View.'  The piece hit just a few hours before Ann's f-bomb failure.

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Now Meg seems to have gotten it exactly right.  Ann has fallen into the abyss with the Rosie O'Donnell's of the world.  Look - it is easy to lampoon John Edwards without ignorant comments.  He's a rich white guy that was a trail lawyer.  He once imitated the voice of a fetus to win a case.  In 1985 John Edwards "stood before a jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl," according to the New York Times.

In his closing argument to the jury, Edwards conveyed what the unborn child, Jennifer Campbell, purportedly had been feeling hour-by-hour as her distress grew.  "She speaks to you through me," Edwards told the jury. "And I have to tell you right now - I didn't plan to talk about this - right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."  By the way, Edwards is pro abortion unless he is fighting to win some cash as a trial lawyer.

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Coulter's unfunny slur is drawing heat, not just from the left but from the right as well.  In 'An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter' the bloggers ask. "What is next? If Senator Barack Obama is the de facto Democratic Presidential nominee next year will Coulter feel free to use a racial slur? How does that help conservatism?"

It doesn't.  Read the letter here.