Can she really be serious?

Now, I know Ann Coulter is not meant to be taken literally. No one can really be that crazy. She has a great shtick that earns her big bucks. What scares me is that too many people actually take her seriously. Reading her column naming Sarah Palin as Human Events Conservative of the Year makes me cautiously optimistic the conservative in it's current form is dead.

In the wake of 2004, it appeared that Rove's dream of a permanent Republican majority was becoming a reality. The Democrats had been completely eviscerated of the defining issue of the day, the "War on Terror," and were confused and emasculated by an angry and vicious right wing. But how quickly things can change. As the Republicans had no actual policy proposals or competent appointments from Bush, the Republican party soon collapsed in on itself. The politics of hate got them elected, but they couldn't actually govern and this quickly became obvious to the voters who handed them two crushing defeats in a row.

So, the voters have clearly rejected the demagoguery of the right (whether they were accepting the policy proposals of the left is open to debate) because it became clear they were more driven by ideology that practical governing. So, with that in mind who do they choose to lionize as "conservative of the year"? The woman who emobodied that very characteristic and was more instrumental in McCain's lose than they dare acknowledge. In this time of panic the last thing an unemployed father is looking to hear is how Obama is a terrorist, they want to hear about what the government can and will do to fix the situation. As usual, the right throws out tax cuts, but as that is the exact same thing we've always heard from the right, they're not convincing anyone they have a real idea about how to fix the problem. As long as they were sticking to what they know, they decided to call Obama socalist terrorist, no substantive critique just pure mud.

Go ahead dig your heels in and pray that Obama is a terrible president, don't actually provide substantive policy proposals and be vocal about how wrong Obama is. If they double down on Obama's failure and he succeeds, the Republican Party as we know it will no longer exist.

*fingers crossed*