WASHINGTON -- Conservative icon and best-selling author Ann Coulter overwhelmingly set the individual session attendance record Friday evening at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) - regaling the overflowing Regency banquet room at the Omni-Sheraton with ribald commentary on Muslims, Democrats, Bill Clinton, and general commentary about Washington "weenies."
Swarms of CPAC student attendees arrived early to fill the seats immediately in front of the dais, firing pointed questions at Coulter, who gave as good as she got.
Coulter's generous use of the term "ragheads" to refer to violent Muslims during her salty opening remarks prompted one student to stand up and remind the author that her bandying the derogatory term would only serve to "turn Muslims off" and it would be best to apologize and refrain.
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Without missing a beat, Coulter shot back: "So, I make some jokes at their expense ... THEY killed 3,000 Americans!"
When another student derisively asked when Coulter was going to expand her repertoire of hate-mongering past Muslim-baiting to include blacks, Jews and Asians, a defiant Coulter shrugged and rejoined: "When they start flying planes into our buildings."
But it wasn't just the Muslims who got stung. At one point, when speaking about the reported penchant for college professors to indoctrinate students with liberal notions, she referred to those professors trespassing on the young minds as "sissified … narrow-minded and ignorant ... chickens."
Some more examples from the session:
On anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan, Coulter noted that it was now being reported that the activist was perhaps not going to run for political office after all. To which she added, "But there's still hope she'll go for Howard Dean's job."
On Democrats using the funeral celebration of Coretta Scott King as a forum to jab at President Bush: "Someone must teach those Democrats how to grieve!"
On noting that allies made not a peep when the Danish embassy in Syria - sovereign soil of that Scandinavian nation - was attacked by local Muslims angry over the infamous spat of cartoons depicting an image of the Muslim deity: "By the terms of the NATO treaty, we have an obligation along with most of European nations to attack Syria right now. Or is NATO, like conventions of civilized society, inapplicable when Muslims are involved?"
Her biggest moral or ethical dilemma: "There was one time I had a shot at Clinton. I thought, ‘Ann, that's not going to help your career.'"
On Iran's saber-rattling and bluster over nuclear weapons: "I think our motto should be, post-9/11, ‘Raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'"
An aside to the infamous Hillary comment: "There is more dissent on a slave plantation then amongst moderates in the Republican party."
More on Iran: "Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and the N.Y. Times have made submissions."
On the whole surveillance/privacy thing: "If we find out someone is going to attack the Supreme Court next week, can't we tell Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia?"
More on Muslims: "Muslims are the only group who kill because people call them violent."
If John Roberts is a conservative - and he appears to be - he was put on the Supreme Court by the Bush Administration completely by accident."
On the withdrawn Supreme Court nominee: Harriet Miers was served with "a plate of cookies" by "Washington weenies. Only because of a revolt against Miers were Republicans in Washington finally forced to face their worst nightmare: an out-of-closet conservative nominee to the Supreme Court."
On the Democrats: "Democrats have three major planks: "Abortion on demand, gay marriage and banning the Boy Scouts. Someday they'll find a way to combine them all and figure out how to abort all future Boy Scouts."
On what the GOP really stands for: "We're the party that defends human life in all its forms, so don't believe it when the same Washington weenies who gave us Harriet Miers, who ran like little girls from the Federalist Society, and who continually associate with Bill Clinton, come to you and say, ‘We've got to run a pro-choice Republican if we're going to beat Hillary.' That's NOT our party!"
After the Coulter session ended, the throngs trailed after the commentator to the exhibit hall where she was to sign copies of her calendar. The line eventually stretched nearly the full inside circuit of the hall, with mostly students waiting patiently to have their snapshots taken with the celebrity.
One woman in line remarked: "That woman needs a bodyguard!"
Later at the CPAC Diamond reception in the Diplomat room, NewsMax noted former majority leader Rep. Tom Delay being closely encircled by attendees.
"Gee, Mr. DeLay, you are almost as popular as Ann Coulter."
DeLay smiled and waved off the compliment. "Oh, no, you couldn't say that!"
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