Just curious: why is Coulter picking on Edwards?

[question everything]

Apparently she went after him in 2004 with a "bumper sticker about his dead son."

There were - what, 10 candidates in 2004? - and 8 now. I wonder why pick on Edwards. Is she afraid that if he is the nominee that all her admirers will end up in the poor house?

[Totally Committed]

1. She has the hots for him, and this is the form her "flirting" is taking?

Just a guess.

TC

[shimmergal]

20. That rings true as her subconscious motive.

A curious display of perversion, vying for your object-of-lust's attention by mega-insults, but then Coulter certainly is perverse.

Which is not to discount the political/personal interest reasons listed below.

Actually I think we need to nail her on the "frustrated crush/lust" point. If that's not too com-plex for the knuckledraggers to understand. It shouldn't be, given that probably as little boys they tormented the girls they liked.

Any how-to-do-it ideas along this line?

[spooky3]

23. and she is insanely jealous of, and intimidated by, Elizabeth Edwards.

EE is the person Ann wishes she could be, when she wakes up in the middle of the night wondering what her life has become and where she is going. Elizabeth is smart, almost universally admired for her integrity and strength, beautiful, and a no BS person--who also is financially secure and does not have to sell out to live.

[alfredo]

2. He is an advocate for the poor and dispossessed. He also stood

up to corrupt businesses, winning big law suits against them.

Among conservatives there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.”
- William Kristol

[meow2u3]

5. You're right. Edwards got rich by standing up to crooked fat cats

and put them on a financial diet. Coulter was born with a silver spoon up her nose and never had to work an honest day in her life--a "female" version of Smirky McPuppet.

[alfredo]

13. And like the quote I pasted, the job of the conservatives is to pull

up the drawbridge against the common man.

[liberal N proud]

3. Maybe she his looks remind her if herself before the operation?

Other than that, the his message must be too close to the truth for the right wing to allow him to get it out.

[Botany]

4. that is her job .....

.... Edwards scares the other side more than any.

Edwards Haircut will be Gore's "I invented the intenet" or Kerry's "Swiftboating."
Lie or not just keep repeating "it" and "it" gets legs.

[spooky3]

22. Hey Botany, did you see this brilliant MMFA critique of Haircut Journalism?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200707070001?f=h_top

Some choice morsels:

snip

"Let us pause a moment to consider the plight of John Solomon and other reporters like him. Committed to the betterment of the polity, eager to foster a substantive and meaningful debate, wanting nothing more than to play their role in the pageant of democracy, they strive to live up to the legacy bequeathed by our nation's founders, who understood so deeply the importance of the profession of journalism that they wrote an explicit protection for its practitioners into the Bill of Rights.

Yet all the reporters' good intentions come to naught. The siren song of The Haircut is too beguiling, sapping their will, rendering them powerless before its irresistible pull. Their fingers betray them, tapping out yet another article on The Haircut on their laptops, while bitter tears of regret splash onto the keys."

snip

"You don't have to be a professor of semiotics to understand what The Haircut is supposed to represent. It was seized upon with such glee by the press corps because it brings together two key stories that its members never tire of telling about Democrats. By sheer coincidence, they also happen to be the two portraits Republicans have painted of their opponents with such smashing success before, and are planning to paint again. The first story is this: Democrats are phony. They pretend they're regular people when they're really not, reporters tell us. They pretend they care about poor people, when they couldn't possibly, if they themselves are not poor. (The Republican presidential candidates, on the other hand, are rich and evince no particular interest in helping people who aren't, which seems to be what the press considers the appropriate stance to adopt.)"

snip

"Which brings us to the second story The Haircut tells: Democrats are effeminate. Who cares about their hair? Women, of course, and if a man gets a good haircut, he must not be much of a man. And it isn't just Edwards who suffers from these attacks, as Kerry and Al Gore did before him. Tucker Carlson, testosterone oozing from his pores, muscles rippling under his bespoke suit, declared that Barack Obama "seems like kind of a wuss." "

[Gothmog]

6. Edwards is a candidate who the GOP fears

Edwards is the best candidate (outside of VP Al Gore) and so the GOP fears him. Edwards does the best in the head to head polls with all of the GOP front runners and so Ann needs to pick on him

[CTyankee]

21. I think Ann was really reacting to the publicity around Elizabeth's cancer.

I also think she was picking up the "Breck Girl" comments at the RNC.

Ann will probably not try something with HRC. Hillary's team will grind her into the dust if she does, and I think Ann knows it. Plus, what else bad can you spread around about Hillary, whom the repubs accused of murdering her best friend, for god's sake.
Ain't much left there to jump on. HRC's been there, done that.

Ann also seems to like the macabre. She made those outrageous remarks about the 9/ll widows "enjoying the fact that their husbands were killed." The bumper sticker she suggested for Edwards "As me about my dead son" was in that sick vein.

Ann is a sideshow folks. Watch the numbers trend as we move towards primary season while realizing things are very fluid now. Watch for the flub factor (we've already had the haircut thing with Edwards).

I'm not ruling anything out just now. But I think the smart money is on Hillary, as I type this at 12:25 pm on Monday, July 9.

[OHdem10]

7. While Couler's daggers make the most noise,

there appears to be a concerted effort on the Right, Fox News Channel
Hate Radio TV Pundits everywhere to marginalize Edwards.

IMO, they see Edwards as a populist. Populism is perceived as
a threat to their form of Capitalism and Conservatism.

Edwaards was the first Democrat to refuse to appear on Fox News.
GOP is very good at payback. Edwards must pay.

Coulter is provocative so she gets covered. It is 24-7 negative
coverage on Edwards at Fox.

[ljm2002]

14. Yes, populism is the worst thing imaginable...

...to these sorts.

Remember, that is why Buchanan was elbowed out of the Republics' mainstream: whatever else you can say about him, he is a populist.

Dean was also a more populist candidate than most, last time around. We see what happened to him.

It scares the crap out of them to see a fired up populace. All the more reason for us to meet at the barricades, and roar as loud as we've ever roared in our history.

Oh that we could bring down the walls of Jericho with our roar.

[shimmergal]

24. On populism--

Most of the passion on the Republican side seems to be in the Ron Paul camp. He's drawing lots of supporters, at the same time as the Pub. establishment tries to crowd him out of the race altogether.

Now most of us would hate half of his libertarian beliefs--put into practice, we wouldn't even have govt.-maintained roads or public schools -- but that's only one prong of his three-or-four part appeal. The other parts are opposition to the Iraq War, concern for the Constitution, and a conviction that the ordinary citizen doesn't have a chance, or a voice in the halls of power, anymore.

Isn't there some way we can make all this passion work for a genuinely progressive, populist candidate like Edwards?

[maximusveritas]

8. He's the only one who responds and gives her attention

which is all she's after. It's not like she hasn't said bad things about the other candidates.

[question everything]

9. Yes, I remember in 2004

she said that all the Democratic candidates had some (tainted?) Jewish blood and "even Sharpton was circumcised." Too bad no one ever bothered to ask her how she knew..

:puke:

[Rosemary2205]

10. Rush has Obama - Hannity has Hillary - Coulter has Edwards

The lesser pigs shuffle around and take random pot shots and see what sticks. They've each been given a job.

[William769]

11. Jealously!

She only wishes to be half the lady Mrs. Edwards is, for that matter she only wishes to be half the lady of the drag queens I know.

[gulliver]

12. Coulter's setting up her book plans for 2008.

She doesn't have any ammo against Obama yet, so she needs the Dems to choose Edwards or Bill Clinton's wife. Coulter has been a big help to Edwards, largely due to savvy Edwards political work, especially on the part of Elizabeth Edwards.

The "substandard pundit with above-average legs" has already done a ton of GOPer samizdat-porn on Bill Clinton. But Clinton is looking a bit frail now, and I don't see how Coulter gets any fresh sadistic sarcasm material out of Clinton's wife. Edwards, on the other hand, is a good-looking guy much like the Bill Clinton of Ann's youth. Ann likes.

[rndmprsn]

15. they are scared of Edwards...

a person who can effectively speak in the language of populism because he is from the working class, he has a clearly laid out progressive agenda is from the south and was popular in the Midwest 04 and so far seems like a fighter...i feel Edwards is going to be the dark horse candidate this election.

[Disturbed]

16. Annthrax secretly likes Edwards so she helps his campaign

garner more funds.

[ChiciB1]

18. To Your Statement.... I MOST Heartily Agree! I've Felt This Way

for a very long time. Just this AM on The Washington Journal, I heard two if not three people express their angst over the fact that America should not be ruled by a DYNASTY of TWO families... mainly the Bushies and the Clintons. Each one said they "hear" it all the time, that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee and THEY DON'T LIKE IT!!

Clinton may be intelligent and savvy, but the Repukes are just waiting in the wings for us to nominate her! Say what you will, but I've heard it far too many times from my friends and many many people on C-Span! Many are Independents, but many are Democrats! The Repukes simply state that she's "whatever" name comes to mind for them! Some Repukes are so vile about their comments regarding her that it really shocks me sometimes. I've heard some say they will DO ANYTHING to make sure she and Bill will NEVER return to the WH! What that means I don't know, but I do know this... THEY are capable of ANYTHING!

Just remember how many of our most Beloved Leaders have been killed! Then tell me how many Repukes have!! I don't know if that's what they mean, but what is coming out of their mouths is really horrible. I find it most disgusting, but also very sinister!

Smuck Head and his cronies have certainly SPLIT this country into pieces!! So much for being "The Uniter!" Nothing could be further from the TRUTH! Sheesh, TRUTH isn't in their vocabulary!!!

[ChiciB1]

19. My Comments Were In Answer To rndmprsn....n/t

[mitchum]

25. Absolutely correct...and that is why they try so desperately to turn his positives...

into negatives:

-the fact that he rose from a working class background due to his talents, hard work and determination becomes "he's a phony who doesn't how people live. How much do YOU pay for a haircut? And have you seen the size of his house?"
-his ability to speak effectively about his agenda becomes "he's a just a slick-talking trial lawyer"
-his attractiveness and charisma becomes "he's a narcissistic fop"
-his populist agenda, despite his own personal wealth will become "how can you trust a man like that? Why...why...he's a traitor to his class!"

I agree with you that he is going to be the dark horse candidate. And they are very very afraid.

[mitchum]

17. Because unlike Coulter, he's actually used his law degree?

[bunkerbuster1]

26. I think that's most of it. Professional jealousy.

Ann knows that she could've become the skank-pundit without bothering with the law degree; she's probably predisposed to hate liberal members of her erstwhile profession.