We stood in the long line for maybe a minute, but we knew we weren’t going to get in. Fine with me, I didn’t want to see Coulter anyway. On one hand, I wish we could’ve got in. Then, I would’ve sat there, and I could’ve booed or walked out. On the other hand, I find it far more likely that I would’ve sat there, quietly seething.

Instead, I found out the next morning that Ann Coulter had pretty much called John Edwards a faggot. I think John Hawkins, at Right Wing News nails it, calling her selfish.

I never liked her before, but now I have no respect for Ann Coulter at all.

And don’t give me that “It was a joke” excuse. That is the lamest excuse ever. There’s something called “delivery.” Ann’s delivery wasn’t funny; it was just insulting.

I used to think that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but… bah, who knows, maybe this helped her with her book sales.

What depresses me the most is how people cheered. No, depresses and disgusts. AGHH!

By the way, here’s a sneak peek at Ann Coulter’s next CPAC speech: “I would say something about Obama, but apparently you can’t call a black person a nigger anymore without going to rehab.” [I wonder how many kids would cheer that.]

If she’s coming next year, I am so protesting.

I smirked a little bit. I had taken a glance around the room and noticed that a few people were starting to nod off. Tim Pawlenty wasn’t giving a stump speech, he was giving a lecture. While his execution was off, I still think he had a few very interesting things to say.

He stressed the importance of suburban voters, specifically, suburban women voters. He said we shouldn’t refer to them as “soccer moms,” giving a very persuasive spiel about them being in the work force, etc. He expressed a worry that suburban voters, even though they liked Republican principles, they thought of the Republicans as the party of the rich. I think he’s onto something and the Republicans have really got to fix their image. We’re seen as the party of bigots and the uber-rich.

Pawlenty, at one point, asked the audience about the person most popular among women. After a pause, I managed to answer along with him: Oprah. He said that Obama was Oprah-ish, managing to exhude that same type of demeanor.

I don’t think Pawlenty managed to tap into any of that Oprah power, but I think he’s on to something. Republicans need to appeal to suburbia, and especially suburban women.

I was surprised at the rousing ovation that Tom Delay received. I guess he is “the Hammer,” but didn’t he leave disgraced? Well, I didn’t stand up and clap. I didn’t do much listening to either Delay or Horowitz, who were speaking on some type of panel. However, I did do enough listening to Horowitz to feel very uneasy about it. No wait, let me backtrack.

First, when the lady was introducing them, she took so much pride in the fact that they were people that liberals loved to hate. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be hated. If someone can’t stand me because of certain political positions, fine, they can do that, but I’m not going to actively try and get someone to hate me. Somewhere in her introduction, she said that Horowitz was a former Marxist.

Anyway, I leaned over to my friend and said, “This will probably get me shot, but I think Horowitz still sounds like a Marxist.” Ironically, while I was thinking those thoughts (before I mentioned them to my friends), Horowitz prefaced some statements by apologizing for sounding like a leftist (although I think it involved how he was using many numbers or something).

Strangely enough, the choice derogatory term for the Democrats from Horowitz is that they are a “religion.” They are religious in that they want to establish a heaven-on-earth. Fair game, I hate their idealism, but the way Horowitz describes the left just makes me feel creepy. I can’t say what it is, but although his targets have changed, his language sounds the same… as if he’s still denouncing the bourgeoisie. He spoke of the left as a monolith, and I didn’t like his approach.

I didn’t hear him speak, but my friends apparently enjoyed Huckabee’s speech at CPAC. We looked up his record afterwards and apparently he was a big spender. I don’t really have an opinion of Huckabee, but I couldn’t resist writing this down:

Fuck Huck.

Sorry to be crass, but I think it’s hilarious.