denounce

Do you remember the Monty Python skit – Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge? This is what the Republicans are doing when they “denounce” Coulter. They invited her. She has called Clinton and Gore gay so why not Edwards? It is the trifecta.

BTW, it was no joke. If it was an attempt at a joke then maybe Andrew Dice Clay is writing her material.

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From NYT:

Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party’s best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here.

The remarks by Ann Coulter, an author who regularly speaks at conservative events, were sharply denounced by the candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona, Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Their statements came after Democrats, gay rights groups and bloggers raised a storm of protest over the remarks.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference before an overflow crowd on Friday, Ms. Coulter said, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.” (more…)