A lil' more CPAC love

I wanted to bring you a little more Conservative Political Action Conference love before I move on to other stuff. Today's Washington Post carries a story about CPAC that has some interesting tidbits [with the Coulter quote buried nice and deep] about the Republicans spreading the love, and the diversity.

Read for yourself:

In the session preceding Romney, Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) said of Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq: "She's an idiot." In the session after Romney, Ann Coulter used an anti-gay slur to describe John Edwards (the line drew applause) and asked: "Did Al Gore actually swallow Michael Moore?"

When a questioner asked Coulter why she praises marriage but broke off so many engagements, she responded by calling the questioner ugly.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) got the crowd cheering early in the day. "I have been called -- my kids are all aware of this -- dumb, crazy man, science abuser, Holocaust denier, villain of the month, hate-filled, warmonger, Neanderthal, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun," he announced. "And I can just tell you that I wear some of those titles proudly."

Inhofe repeated his view that man-made global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and he quarreled with a Bush administration proposal to list polar bears as a threatened species. "They're overpopulated," he declared. "Don't worry about it: The polar bear is fine." His staff handed out supporting documentation, including the claim that "MARS HAS GLOBAL WARMING DESPITE ABSENCE OF SUVs."

Someday, maybe long after he's gone, or at least when his career in the Senate is over, who would be surprised if it was revealed that Inhofe received large sums of money from Big Oil? In some ways, he's a dumbed down version of Ann Coulter. (Take that comment literally or figuratively - it works either way.)