Ann Coulter is the face of the new Republicans

Ugly thoughts said in a nice way are so much better than good thoughts said with obscenities.

Here are some of her oh-so-nicely worded ugliness that wins her applause:

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

To a disabled Vietnam vet: " People like you caused us to lose that war."

"[The] backbone of the Democratic Party [is a] typical fat, implacable welfare recipient"

"[Clinton] masturbates in the sinks."

"If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country."

On Rep. Christopher Shays (D-CT) in deciding whether to run against him as a Libertarian candidate: "I really want to hurt him. I want him to feel pain."

"I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady [Hillary Clinton] from running for Senate."

"We're now at the point that it's beyond whether or not this guy is a horny hick. I really think it's a question of his mental stability. He really could be a lunatic. I think it is a rational question for Americans to ask whether their president is insane."

"We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media."

"Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole."

"There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats."

"We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals."

Nice woman. She doesn't say fuck or shit.

Update: She says faggot though.

Update 3/5: Mustang Bobby observes:

Let's see if the GOP and the RNC and the busybodies who beat the crap out of the Edwards campaign for hiring bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan will give equal time to condemning Ms. Coulter for outdoing anything Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan wrote on their blogs. (If you don't see the difference between making snarky comments about the Catholic priest pedophile scandal and calling a presidential candidate a faggot, stop reading now and have your hypocrisy meter tested by a professional.) Let's see if Ms. Coulter's next appearance on TV, be it Hardball, CNN, or Today gets the kind of fawning attention she's accustomed to where the host joshes along with her and closes out by asking her back.

It's ironic that Ann Coulter gets back into the news on the day they buried Anna Nicole Smith in the Bahamas. One white bombshell out, the next one in. And it's interesting how both women are icons: the late Ms. Smith represented all the tabloid excess of the glitterati and embarrassed the hell out of anyone else in the acting profession when they heard her referred to as an actor or a "Hollywood celebrity." Ms. Coulter is the biggest draw for young conservatives today; they line up around the block to get her autograph and gush about how she truly speaks the mind of the conservative movement in America today.

Republican icon = Ann Coulter. How richly they deserve her.