Transcript - Ann Coulter at CPAC, Feb. 10, 2006

Transcribed by Campus Progress

Coulter: Thank you, you’re very kind.

Student: Ann we love you! (Cheers)

Coulter: This is what they call your typical college speech I guess. I’ll tell you, I almost didn’t make it here today—I started to listen to that new left-wing radio station, and I must have just dozed off. So I guess in response to some cartoons they didn’t find funny, Muslims are engaging in what Gandhi called “active resistance.” Iran is—an Iranian newspaper is holding a contest for cartoons on the Holocaust, and so far the only submissions have been from Ted Rall, Gary Trudeau, and the New York Times. The one notable exception to the Muslims with bipolar disorder is Iraq, I know, so I guess this war for oil has benign benefits. They’re the only group who kill because they’re angry people have called them violent. Instead of bowing and speaking to savages, I think we’re supposed to be bombing Syria right now. And unlike the claim that the Quran prohibits depictions of Mohammed—I have documentation to back that up, the NATO treaty—Syria torched and burned to the ground the Danish embassy last week, and according to everyone—according to Condolezza Rice, according to the Prime Minister of Denmark, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, the Syrian government was behind it. McClellan said, for example: “We will hold Syria responsible for such violent demonstrations, since they do not take place in that country without government knowledge and support.” I think we have to do a whole lot more than “hold them responsible” for a state-sponsored attack on Danish territory, the Danish embassy. As members of the NATO treaty we have an obligation along with most of European Nations to attack Syria right now—or is NATO, like the invention of civilized society, inapplicable when Muslims are involved? (inaudible) – unilateral action, but according to the terms of the NATO treaty, written by Acheson and a bunch of democrats, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, they all have an obligation to attack Syria right now—so saddle up, Mr. Commie.

These riots of Muslims reminded by the way, why we have to take seriously the threat that Iran has nukes. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t—by they’re certainly acting like they do. What if they start having one of these bipolar episodes with nuclear weapons? If you don’t want to get shot by the police, don’t point a gun at them—or as I think our motto should be, post-9/11, raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences. The great Danish cartoon caper, also reminds me of an interesting court building there’s a freeze of all of the world’s lawmakers—including Mohammed—an exhibition of Mohammed. So maybe we have some people who will finally take care of the courts? Can we tell the Muslims about the freeze and can somebody tell Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito to stay away from work next week?

Which brings me to these main points I want to make in a room full of right wingers, and that is the lessons from the Alito nomination. [Inaudible] One is, never trust Washington weenies, and number two, Democrats aren’t that scary. Republicans waste more time being afraid of Democrats than they do robbing orphans, evicting widows, helping corporations—you know, what we’re paying them to do. A few years ago, a Republican lawyer on the judiciary committee [inaudible] found unopened files on the judiciary committee, documents proving that Democrats were opposing Bush’s Hispanic nominees to the court on the sole reason that they are Hispanic. Yet the Democrats want us to put them in charge of national security. Those guys. What would you suppose the democrats would’ve done if they had found a memo to the Republicans opposing Ruth Bader Ginsberg solely because she was Jewish? And, I mean other than the Democrats who are openly anti-Semitic like Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky—I mean the anti-Semites who’ve never [inaudible] are still in the closet. What do you suppose they would have done? For reasons I still don’t understand, instead of these memos being a Democrat scandal, they were the Republican scandal. Miranda wasn’t asked to resign from the senate judiciary committee, [inaudible] Democrats. This is roughly the equivalent of them bringing felony charges against the security guard at the Watergate hotel who discovered the break in and letting everybody else walk. But the voters had a different idea—the voters fired Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate majority leader. He was the man most responsible for blocking Bush’s judges and now is no longer a Senator Tom Daschle, he’s citizen Tom Daschle—just your average guy married to a high powered DC corporate lobbyist. Republicans ended up with an even larger majority in the Senate, so naturally Republicans were terrified of what the Democrats would do when Bush got two nominations to the Supreme Court. The prospects of the US Senate with a hundred Republicans is looking large.

First the White House nominated John Roberts (secret service code name “tabula rasa”). And then rushed to assure the press that no, he’s never been to a federalist society meeting, also they started distributing photos of John Roberts—contributing to PBS, recycling aluminum cans, and [inaudible] Maya Angelou. If John Roberts is a conservative, and he appears to be, he was nominated by this Administration completely by accident. Next we’ve got Harriet Miers because the Democrat minority leader in the Senate, who replaced Tom Daschle—Harry Reid, had recommended her—he could make Daschle look witty and charismatic.

You’ve got Harriet Miers and a plate full of cookies because Republican weenies in Washington refuse to believe election results. When conservatives complained about Miers, the weenies informed us that no one wanted the job—which is the all time winner of the lifetime achievement award, the Brokeback Mountain of the stupidest comment ever made by a Republican. Who would want a job like the Supreme Court? No wonder all those illegal immigrants from Mexico are taking jobs as Supreme Court justices for five dollars an hour. And today, every Republican in the nation was opposed to Miers’ nomination, with the narrow exception of Republicans whose sole reason for being is to receive a personal phone call from Karl Rove—which wasn’t bad considering that there was more dissent on a slave plantation that there is in the modern Republican party—and you know what I’m talking about, sister. I can say that, by the way. My party freed the slaves.

The grassroots Republican revolt against Miers [Inaudible] Republicans in Washington finally forced to face their worst nightmare—an out of the closet, conservative nominee to the Supreme Court. Or as we now call him, Justice Sam Alito. That’s what happens when you win elections. It’s one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the constant Republican juggernaut at the polls since 1994; it’s quite another for the Republicans to be in denial about them too. Consider that the Democrats haven’t been able to get the majority of Americans to vote for them—in any national election—since 1976 when Jimmy Carter won 50.1% of the vote. While Washington Republicans are terrified about doing something that will lead to snippy remark from the New York Times, they seem not to realize the Democrats are terrified of something far more daunting to a politician—the voters. Even the Democrats can read the writing on the wall, which by federal law must be written in English, Spanish … [inaudible] …

Gallup polls show that more than twice as many Americans call themselves conservative (about 41%) than call themselves liberals (about 19%). The only identifiable group of Americans who don’t want to be identified as conservatives are Republicans in Washington. Fortunately, Republicans only have to beat Democrats. God help us if the Democratic Party ever gives up on its three major planks—abortion on demand, gay marriage and banning the boy scouts. Someday they’ll find a way to combine them all, and think up how to abort all future boy scouts.

Republicans—especially Republicans in Washington are eternally convinced that Republicans are unpopular. What on earth was President Bush doing announcing to everyone in a [inaudible] State of the Union address that one of his father’s favorite people was Bill Clinton? I wonder how [inaudible] was enjoying that part of the speech. Who exactly was supposed to be impressed? The Republican president who raised our taxes and was thrown out after one term likes an impeached multiple felon. Who’s his other favorite person? Harry Bellafonte?

I’ll conclude in a moment and take your questions but I want to leave you with this: it’s not just that we are winning, and we are winning—just like I’m glad that we have all the pretty girls on our side—but that we ought to win. We’re the party that doesn’t need to be coached to persuade people we believe in God. We’re the party that doesn’t believe in doctor [inaudible] like experimentation on fetuses. We’re the party that isn’t bossed around by trial lawyers and feminists. We’re the party that believes in the constitution by which I mean the real constitution and not the director’s cut favored by Democrats. Our party was founded for the express reason to end slavery when the Democrats were for slavery and the Whigs were pro-choice on slavery. We’re the party that defends human life in all it’s forms. So don’t believe it when the same Washington weenies who defended 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 gonna beat Hillary.” That’s not our party. [huge applause] That’swhat Republicans politicians need to be afraid of. I will take your questions.

Student, Harvard University: My question is in regards to, could you comment on Hillary Clinton’s start to move center and what do you think she’s potentially doing with this and how conservatives should expose this.

Coulter: Well [inaudible] all polls I’ve seen in the last two months say, what is it, 53% of Americans would never vote for Hillary under any circumstances—no matter who she ran against… I think conservatives have already done a pretty good job on Hillary. I don’t think we’re going to have to worry about that. I mean, unless we don’t run another Ronald Reagan, and run you know an electable guy—like former President Bush or Bob Dole—the electable Republicans we’re always told. They’re the ones who lose; it’s the right-wing lunatics who’re going to lead to another Goldwater debacle who always win in historic landslides. So when you go and vote in the primaries, just remember: ok, I gotta vote for the guy who’s gonna lose because he’s unelectable because he’s a right-wing lunatic. That’s the one we want.

Student, Catholic University of America: What is the most important or difficult ethical and moral decision you’ve been faced with in your career?

Coulter: There was one time when I had a shot at Clinton. No, that won’t help your career, Ann. So I think I made the right decision.

Student, Blackburn College (IL): I was asking how the shift in the Republican Party, especially in moderates—you know, with Senate leadership, especially from going to Lott to Frist, and DeLay being down in the house, and how this is going to change the dynamics of upcoming elections.

Coulter: Well, Republicans older than I can tell you, this is a nonstop battle in the Republican Party. We keep competing with these moderate republicans, i.e. the ones who lose elections, and they keep coming back—they’re like rats, you can never get rid of them. Phyllis Schlafley’s been after them for 50 years [inaudible]. All I can say is they’re the ones who lose elections and you have to keep fighting them—it’s like a pest control problem. You can think you have them under control, but it comes back up.

(Question inaudible—basically, it’s about Democrats “hijacking” the Coretta Scott King memorial and using it to make President Bush look bad—whether or not there will be consequences for their politicizing a church service.)

Coulter: I really think the point is we have to teach the Democrats how to grieve—I mean Wellstone, Cindy Sheehan and now this. I used to be in favor of—and I guess I still am—of a federal program that would teach liberals the laws of logic, to debate with them. But now, maybe more urgently, we have to give them a lesson in mourning, in grieving, how to put on a funeral. (Inaudible joke)

Student, Franciscan University: Miss Coulter, considering the resounding Republican victories over the past few years on conservative platforms, how do we make it exceedingly clear that we’re tired of the Rockefeller Republicanism in Congress, in the Senate, and even in the White House, to the point of which people are cow-towing to liberals, to moderates, to Ted Kennedy and all of his cohorts?

Coulter: Well I think we’re doing a pretty good job—I mean you’re doing it at the polls. It is happening; it’s really just a matter or right-wingers not losing their nerve. Especially like the first questioner, a poor woman from the Soviet Union —Harvard…what happens is we start thinking “our ideas—oh gosh we’re going to lose, we’re going to lose.” I was just reading the New York Times on the way down here today and Eliot Spitzer in his race, running as a Democrat, his big statement that he’s coming out with, I don’t know, yesterday I guess, is he supports partial birth abortions even in the third trimester, whereas the Democrat he’s running against, supports abortions all the way through all three trimesters, supports partial birth abortions through the second trimester, but does not support partial birth abortions in the third trimester. So Eliot Spitzer wants to make absolutely sure that there were three apartments on the Upper West Side that were still undecided. I mean you live around insane people like this and you forget what a great country it is.

Student: Thank you for coming today. We have a booth here; it’s called Muslims for America. I apologize on behalf of the Muslim terrorists, but you have to understand there’s 1.5 billion with a ‘B’ and there are .0000005 that did the terrorism, when you call people ragheads – and I met the president, I mean, he asked me to come work for him, I met the vice president—I mean it kind of turns a lot of Muslim Americans off, and it’s kind of hard to recruit them to support our cause… (Unintelligible because of applause) please, please, please, please, don’t say raghead.

Coulter: You know, ok. I make a few jokes at Muslims, and they killed 3000 Americans—I think we’re even.

Student, Northern Essex Community College: I was just wondering—why is it that with all the successes that the Republicans have had, the Republicans in Congress are still scared to death of the Democrats?

Coulter: I think it illustrates the power of the mainstream media. I mean they keep talking about, you know, Fox News, Fox News, but the highest rated show, true, news channel on cable news is the Bill O’Reilly… but you know, ABC and NBC are still getting more than 10 million viewers for the news every night. Fake news on CBS gets more than 7 million viewers every night. I mean since they control the mainstream media… Maybe this would be a fun project for college Republicans—you could make up some Potemkin Washington Posts, where it would look exactly like the Washington Post, except when they do something right-wing, they’d be hailed for their courage and for being mavericks. You just take all the lines which they normally use for John McCain and put it in articles about Tom DeLay. Take away the real Washington Post and put our Potemkin Washington Posts outside the Senate and Congressional offices.

Student: I have a question about Senator McCarthy. I just finished reading (inaudible) which of course you cite heavily in Treason. Despite substantially vindicating his claims, Senator McCarthy’s claims, the mainstream academia has been very reluctant to adjust their canon to include these statements. Why do you think that is, and how do they justify it?

Coulter: Because college professors are the most sissified, pussified…The job requirements for being a college professor—be intelligent, be open-minded. Yeah, that’s about it. And they’re narrow-minded and they’re ignorant. And they’re chickens. But I have good news for you. M. Stanton Evans, who’s basically been researching Joe McCarthy for 20 years and has documents that have never been seen by anyone else before—FBI files, committee files. His monumental work on Joe McCarthy is coming out later this year.

Student, University of Baltimore: I just had a question concerning Cindy Sheehan running for the Senate apparently against Dianne Feinstein, and I wanted your thoughts about that.

Coulter: Well, I have bad news for you. The Drudge Report reports that she’s pulled out, she’s not running. But I think there’s still hope to get her to take Howard Dean’s position.

Student, University of Pennsylvania: There are a few of us rogue libertarians out here wondering when we’re going to return to the party of Reagan. So I wanted to see your opinion on how marketable is a libertarian candidate for the Republican bid.

Coulter: Not very. I think we’d take libertarians more seriously if they stopped talking about legalizing drugs all the time. There are a few more things on our plates before we get to legalizing drugs and living in the perfect libertarian society. A few other items. The entire Department of Health and Human Services. Guarding the border. It just seems to me—most libertarians and some of my best friends are libertarians, and perhaps you’re not one of them, most of them just seem too chicken to call themselves conservatives. And nobody really knows what a libertarian does and it kind of sounds like liberal, but they can just get right in talking about legalizing pot. I gotta warn all of you—if you’re going to be a conservative in America, you can’t be a pussy. Not that you are, but many are, and I think that’s the problem us conservatives have with libertarians.

Student: I wanted to ask you about young women’s opinion of women in politics. The woman, female poster child of real, liberal Democrats is Hillary Clinton still. Although they deny it, and call her a moderate, people still as a whole respect her. For real, conservative, red-blooded Americans, our poster children of women in politics are Condoleeza Rice and, well, you! What do you think of how young women, non-politicians, view themselves as represented in politics?

Coulter: That’s a good point you’re making. Look at Hillary: how did she get ahead? By who she’s married to. Look at the other dominant woman in Democratic politics—John Kerry.

Student: As conservatives, people I talk to out here are not really angry at moderate Republicans, they’re angry at the establishment who backs them in primaries, who support them with money only. And we have great candidates running for Senate like Herman Kaine and Pat Dewey, who are openly attacked by our fellow Republicans—what can we do as the conservative base to overthrow them?

Coulter: Never give to the Republican National Committee. You should give to Club for Growth. And I understand that The Republican National Committee does have to be supporting Republicans across the board, I understand that. I’m not saying that they’re an evil group—it makes sense, they’re going to support the Republican incumbent. But Club for Growth goes the extra mile and figures out which one is the conservative candidate. And even if you’re not the incumbent—and they figure out which candidates need the money and are the ones who can win. And that’s a way to really target your donations. That’s what I tell my mother, who’s always sending in—she’s a classic Republican—she’s a classic Republican she’s always sending in her $20 checks to forty-seven million different organizations. I tell her to throw out the mail, just send it to Club for Growth. (Inaudible) I’m sorry if there are other groups like that, I don’t mean to be dissing them—that’s the one I know about.

Student: Thanks for coming down and regaling us with your wit. What I wanted to know was when are you planning on expanding your little routine to cover blacks, Jews and Asians.

Coulter: What do you mean?

Student: Well, you know, they’re kind of the in people to make fun of nowadays.

Coulter: Oh, ok—maybe when they fly planes into our skyscrapers and kill 3000 Americans (inaudible due to applause). Maybe then I’ll make jokes at their expense. Bring back the Muslim. At least the Muslim’s a good Republican.

Student, Yukon: I’m currently working for the Laffey campaign over in Rhode Island.

He’s running against the biggest RINO in the Senate, Lincoln Chafee. I saw your article—he’s the only Republican running in Rhode Island running, Laffey. How do I respond—I get a lot of crap, basically, from state party, et cetera, Chafee’s chief of staff yelling at me. How do I respond to people in the state party talking about the national majority and all that kind of stuff. Where would I stand?

Coulter: I have a lot of ideas for you. You can begin by demanding Lincoln Chafee’s SAT scores. That’s all you do. He was a ferrier before running for Senate. He’s the son of the former senator—I’m amazed that Lincoln Chafee remembers to feed himself. So get his SAT scores.