Ann Coulter opposes Roberts

Drudge has the news flash here.

As I write this, Coulter's website seems to be down, or crashed, or something.

And the Drudge flash will not presently link to the actual release, either.

According to Drudge, Coulter's argument seems to be that Roberts might be a Trojan Horse, or a Trojan Nominee, or a Trojan Conservative.

Per Drudge, Coulter says (at various points): "Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives. Never. Not ever... It means nothing that Roberts wrote briefs arguing for the repeal of Roe v. Wade when he worked for Republican administrations... Roberts has specifically disassociated himself from those cases... Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That's just unnatural."

That is: She thinks Roberts is a lib in conservative clothing.

Or a blue in red clothing?

Whatever the case is, it's darn weird that criticism of the president's choice should come from the right instead of the left, and that Coulter's site should be down right now, of all times.

Is Coulter serious? Or is she purposely trying to diffuse what promises to be a perfect liberal storm of opposition to this nomination?

Imaginary message from chubby evil genius Karl Rove to beautiful sinister accomplice Ann Coulter:

"Ann, pretend you hate John Roberts. If you hate him, the liberals will think he must be another Souter. If anyone asks, I never told you this. And by the way, thanks for making those calls about Plame for me."

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ONE MORE THOUGHT (Wednesday, 7/20/05, 2:15 PM): I entertained the notion of Coulter's opposition-as- hoax because it occurred to me as a humorous, though highly unlikely, explanation for her comments. The more I think of it, however, the more unlikely it becomes. Probability would approach zero. Why? Because for her to perform a hoax of that nature would permanently end her career as a major opinion maker. Nobody-- conservative or liberal-- would ever take her opinion seriously again.

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ALSO (2:40 PM): Here is the text of Coulter's column. Found it on Worldnet Daily.