Ann Coulter Compares Meghan McCain To Tiger Woods Mistress

It’s been a tough year for conservative firebreather Ann Coulter. She started out the year riding a wave of attention for her new book, but then Meghan McCain called her out by name in her Daily Beast column, touching off a proxy feud that saw McCain emerge triumphant.

Since then, Coulter has been overshadowed by ever-more-unhinged competitors like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and watched as McCain’s shining star reached cornea-burning levels. Now, she’s reduced to taking extremely cheap shots at Meg at 3 in the morning. Enter Tiger Woods.

Kudos to Andy Levy for calling Coulter out here.

I’m not going to get too worked up about Coulter. As outrageous statements go, this is pretty mild for her. Sure, it’s telling that her first response to Meg’s largely substantive criticism is to compare her to an alleged prostitute. (Jamie Jungers denies she was paid for sex with Tiger Woods.) Certainly, her intent was to personally degrade a fellow female conservative, but Coulter has never promised to play nice.

In fact, this is a neat encapsulation of the whole Meg vs. Extreme Right feud. I have long said that the hard right has missed a huge opportunity with Meg, a chance to attract new blood to an increasingly older and smaller party. Instead, they’ve been relegated to comparing her to a “lady of the evening.” At 3 am.

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