Coulter's "Jews need fixing" remarks

Ann Coulter needs to keep topping herself each time her annual book comes out. This time she really outdid herself though, saying that, as a Christian she “just wanted Jews to be perfected,” or converted to Christianity.

Now this puts Free Republic, and the conservative movement in general, into a helluva bind. Because not all conservatives are evangelical Christians. From what I can tell, you’ve got at least four types that remain on FR after the April purge: Evangelicals, secular social conservatives, war hawks, and anti-tax people. Thus, Coulter’s comment, while correctly stating Evangelical religious dogma, cuts across FR’s coalition. Let’s join the fun:

The original poster, FrouFrou, doesn't seem to be taking Coulter seriously, kicking things off with the delightfully sassy

Oh no, she didn't!

dblshot does not take Coulter so lightly, however:

So stating Christian doctrine is now shocking? That says more about our society than it does about Ann.

This leads to a chorus of agreement and scripture quoting. However, skeeter decides to take the fight to the secular enemy:

I am amazed how easily self described non-Christians can be offended by essential Christian doctrine.

Whats it to them since they've chosen not to believe? And why do many become infuriated because there are those that choose to believe?

To this, Mr. Jeeves cannot remain silent, and points out that

It's the ongoing attempt in recent decades to elect legislators and appoint judges who would write such beliefs into law that is worrisome to non-Christians - and no less so than with Muslims trying to do the same thing with Sharia law.

Damn! Someone played the Muslim Sharia card! Indeed, AnotherUnixGeek does the same thing a bit lower in the thread.

Skeeter interprates this to be an attack on his voting rights, and says

I guess you are offended that christians should participate in the democratic process. Tough sh*t.

muawiyah finds an exception to the American's general fear of theocracy:

The issue is "abortion". I assure you Islam doesn't particularly care if Christian children are slaughtered in the womb.

But while some trade barbs about the viability of theocracy, others attack the messenger. Or their version of the messenger:

texas_mrs:

A transcript, provided by Media Matters, follows. *

I quit reading right there.

wpa_mikeb:

What’s wrong with some of you?

This was another MEDIA MATTERS attempt to smear a conservative.

NOTHING more.

Some of you are falling for it, hook, line and sinker. No questions asked.

THINK, people, THINK

coffe260 posted the entire transcript (the bolding of selected text indicates it was taken from media matters, hilariously enough) and AndyTheBear, as well as others, use this as an excuse to dismiss the whole thing:

The whole transcript puts it in perspective. Deutsch was pushing for something to be offended at and had to twist the context in an absurd way to achieve his goal.

The knee jerk Ann critics on this thread screwed up big time, and are as precisely as obnoxious as they falsely accuse Ann of being.

They owe her a big apology, but I'm not holding my breath.

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To sum up, the reaction is some religious sniping but mostly people attacking the transcript in order to let their beloved Ann off the hook. However, it should be noted that in the last year there has been a marked drop-off of people posting pictures of Ms. Coulter's willowy form.

Blinders; is there anything they can't solve?