"Don't protest Coulter - you'll only encourage her" - Mike Leonard

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"Shall I compare Ann Coulter to a summer's day? A scarecrow, perhaps. Surely, she is less lovely and more blustery than a summer's day.

A flower is a much-used metaphor for femininity, and many would seem more than appropriate as a comparison to a Coulter.

Shall I compare Ann Coulter to a flower, then?

There is the titan arum, or corpse flower, for example. Its "powerfully malodorous stench of rotting fish" announces its presence long before its countenance comes into view.

The putrid stinkhorn fungi would be another good choice. It appears almost overnight in your backyard and entices "flesh and fecal-loving insects to visit their stinking blossoms."

And then there is "The flesh-colored, hairy blossom of S. gigantea … with a nauseating stench. Fringes of soft white hairs on the reddish brown petals superficially resemble a layer of mold growing on rotting matter."

...Coulter is scheduled to speak on the topic, "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything!" at the Indiana University Auditorium tonight at 7. And she will say outrageous things - far beyond the comparisons above, which pale in comparison to the conservative cheerleader's stock in trade."

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2006/02/23/column.0223-HT-A7_PJR53891.sto (subscription - unfortunately)

[Chiyo-chichi]

1. Good for Mike.

And I agree. I'm just staying away.

More from Leonard:
"Some will attempt, no doubt, to disrupt her speech tonight. That would be an affront to the all-American ideal of respecting freedom of speech. And it would play into her liberal-taunting hands.

Better to ignore her, like the dog that barks at you when you walk by its territory. The dog doesn't understand you when you yell, "Shut up!" and it rather enjoys the attention."

[DrGonzoLives]

2. Maybe a choke chain is in order

....muahahahahaha....

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Well, someone's gonna hafta go through the Auditorium

with a might big pooper scooper when she's done. I guess that's the College Republicans' job.

[izzybeans]

4. The best description of the Mantis I've seen yet.

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5. It would be great if she read it. n/t

[Chipper Chat]

6. If Coulter had come to Indiana before 1980 (pre-Ronnie)

she might not have been able to even get a hotel room.
Though we elected Nixon twice, fundie republicans and their media whores didn't "own" the state then like they do now.