"He better hope liberals start to love him"

New Ann Coulter column out today, titled 'Scratch-Off' Miers.

Excellently scathing.

Here is a particularly delicious excerpt:

For five years, Bush has initiated massive spending programs, obstinately refused to protect the borders and signed restrictions on political speech into law. His veto pen remains unopened and unused in its original shrink-wrapped case. Bush treats conservatives like the Democrats treat the blacks (which is to say, pretty badly).

Conservatives were unhappy, but we were confident Bush would never let us down on the two issues that mattered more than anything else: the war on terrorism and the Supreme Court.

And now, although Bush has been bold and strong against the terrorists, it is beyond question that he has betrayed conservative hopes for the Supreme Court.

The way Bush has been attacking his base lately, he better hope liberals start to love him. There aren't going to be a lot of conservatives left to defend him if someone in the White House gets indicted or something. (But at least he can always count on Fox News analysts!)

When conservatives erupted in pain and rage that the president had thrown away a Supreme Court seat on his personal lawyer — because she's a girl and Laura wanted a girl — administration flacks snippily informed right-wing activists that they didn't get a vote. Only senators vote on judicial nominees (that is, whenever Democrats allow it).

Next, the Bush White House accused conservatives of elitism and sexism for opposing the former Texas Lottery commissioner for the Supreme Court.

Then we discovered the White House actually believes everything liberals say about conservative Christians — that we are "uneducated" and "easily led." After administration officials snookered a few evangelical leaders into supporting Miers, they sat back and congratulated themselves on a job well done. But evangelicals are, at best, split down the middle on Miers. Apparently, Christians aren't so easily led. (That's what you get for believing The Washington Post!)

Now the White House is threatening Republican senators who are thinking of voting against the former lottery commissioner. To deliver this message, Bush chose Tom Rath, a Republican functionary in New Hampshire who brags on his Web page that he "actively assisted in the U.S. Senate process that confirmed David Souter as Supreme Court justice."

At least Bush found a man with impeccable credentials to promote the Miers nomination. Note to the promotions department: You can stop printing up those "Trust Me!" T-shirts. I don't think we're going to need them!

Read the rest.

Ann was on Hannity and Colmes this evening (they rerun it at 11pm pst) and is scheduled to be on NBC's Today Show tomorrow (Thursday) morning. I hope Katie Couric (yuck) interviews her and we get to see some fireworks, with Katie asking snide and insulting questions and Ann giving her trademark answers.

I doubt Couric will do the interview, however, as she usually avoids tough Conservatives.

Updated-27 October 2005:
With Harriet Miers withdrawing her nomination, Ann has retitled this weeks column to "It's Morning in America!" She also also done some re-writing. The link is still the same.