One Senator, two Senator; Red Senator, blue Senator
Coulter starts out her column this week with John Kerry's infamous joke-cum-Republican-talking-point:
For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid, (b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them tomorrow.
Kerry's attempt to joke about the President getting the U.S. mired in Iraq has quickly become the talking point du jour. No reasonable person could have seen Kerry's speech and thought he was referring to American troops in Iraq and not the President, especially with the fact that Kerry used to actually be one of the troops. Furthermore, he used none of the words Coulter has accused him of using. Since Coulter cavalierly throws around the "rapist" accusation, one would expect she would be more careful.
Most of the rest of Coulter's column is spent analyzing the historical gains made by one party or another, and comparing them with the party that held the Presidency. She uses this to spin the upcoming election as the death knell of the Democratic Party. Two weeks ago, on FOX News, she claimed:
The average of the midterm election pickup since World War II is about 40 seats. They lost seats in Bush's first midterm election. So they ought to be picking up 60 or 70 seats.
As Media Matters for America has noted, the average gains in the House in the midterm elections has been 25 seats, not 40. In only five of the fifteen midterm elections since World War II has the change been more than 40 seats.
As millions of lunatic Muslims plot to murder Americans, some Americans — we call them "Soccer Moms" — will cast a vote to save Michael J. Fox this year. In the process, they will put all Americans at risk by voting for a frivolous, dying party.
Since 48% of Americans voted Democratic in the last Presidential election, predictions of its demise are probably premature. Plus, why is Michael J. Fox this week's Republican punching bag?
It would be impossible to discuss Coulter's predictions of how America will vote next week without mentioning how she will vote, or whether she even will. On February 7, Coulter allegedly tried to vote in one precinct and, when challenged on her home address by a poll worker, fled the voting precinct and voted in another.
The Palm Beach Elections Supervisor has been trying to get Coulter to clarify her actual address since March 27, but she has refused. The case was likely to have been turned over to prosecutors by the end of last week. Even if nothing comes of this case, this is the woman who said only about a month ago:
Way too many people vote. We should have fewer people voting. There ought to be a poll tax to take the literacy test before voting.
One can not help but wonder if Coulter would pass her own criteria for voting.
Sources:
- "Ann Coulter." Wikipedia. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
- "Coulter misstated midterm election history, declared Democrats will 'go away as a party' if they don't achieve what would be historic gains in House Media Matters for America. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
- "Coulter: 'There ought to be a poll tax to take the literacy test before voting'." Media Matters for America. Retrieved November 5, 2006.
- "Lock Her Up. Eschaton. Retrieved November 5, 2006.