From the Conservative Political Action Conference, Robert Bidinotto, editor of The New Individualist (to which I have contributed), has sent along his impressions of Ann Coulter’s antics there:

“…Ann Coulter is nothing but a right-wing attention slut whose arguments fall shorter than her hemlines, and are even less interesting.”

I would have linked Bidinotto’s blog post on the (principled) BAB had he not offered kind words for the kind of harpy that is way worse than Ann. Why take a shot at the Queen Bee, when you cavort with her wannabe inferiors? The new breed of conservative hussy just seems irresistible to many conservative men, who lose their “principles” over babes with bursting decolletages, mistaking them for babes with brains. Actually, if you are a woman, all you need do to establish intellectual credentials with conservatives and their hangers-on is to have screamed “Sock it to Saddam, Dubya!” back when it was required, and flash your body parts. And blog bloggerel.

At least Ann is accomplished. She also happens to have a facility with syllogisms, writes English with no mistakes, and is ever so good when it comes to the gangreens, for instance. The chapter in Godless on crime and the exclusionary clause is also excellent.

Update: Funny, contrary to Coulter, I would never have thought to pair “faggot” with John Edwards (although it’s a great ploy if one wants to annoy the loathsome Andrew Sullivan, who was at the event). Edwards is all-American good-looking. Giuliani, on the other hand, is positively creepy, quite effeminate, and certainly comfortable with gay culture. Here is the YouTube footage of him in drag smooching Donald Trump. Moreover, to mention Giuliani without speaking of how he Nifonged Michael Milken is to fail as a libertarian, an individualist, or as an individual who cares for liberty and justice. (I like the verb I’ve just coined: Nifonged.)

Further Update: Note that the truly principled Ron Paul was absent from CPAC. (Read how he infuriated George Will.) At least so I believe. I can’t imagine him sacrificing his core values to wallow in that swamp. I’d be surprised if he attended.
Again, individualists and other agitators for real freedoms have an imperative to mention, even in passing, Rudy’s assaults on the authentic Atlases of the world. One reader disagreed, at least implicitly, and exhorted me to promote dreck, which he frames as “intellectual difference.” Sorry.