Ann Coulter On: The Double-Cross Standard

"Conservatives often ask why so many Republicans go native when they get to Washington, D.C. The answer is: Because you don't defend them when they come under relentless attacks from liberal hatchet men.

Lewis Libby did what you wanted. He didn't place secret phone calls to reporters revealing classified intelligence programs. He supported the war on Islamic fascists. He didn't try to raise your taxes like James Baker III. And he has loyally served Dick Cheney, the man conservatives secretly wish were president.

And now he's on trial for — at worst — misremembering who first told him that future reality show contestant Joseph Wilson was sent on a boondoggle to Niger by his wife, Valerie Plame.

The way Libby remembered it, NBC's Tim Russert was the first one to tell him. But the way Russert remembers it, he didn't tell Libby about Wilson's wife. (And the way Wilson remembers it, he was sent to Niger by Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.)

Try this: Who told you Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife? Who told you a bipartisan Senate panel concluded that Joe Wilson was lying when he denied that his wife had sent him to Niger? While we're at it, who was the first person to correct you on your pronunciation of "Niger"?

I don't remember, either — and I'm not running a war.

The exact same people who are now demanding prison for Libby for not remembering who told him about Plame are the ones who told us it was perfectly plausible for Bill Clinton to forget that Monica Lewinsky repeatedly performed oral sex on him in the Oval Office. Even if chubby Jewish brunettes aren't your type, be honest: Which of the two events would stand out more in your memory?

Perjury is intentionally swearing to something you know to be untrue — not misremembering what later appears, on balance, not to be the truth."

Yep. Willy wonked Monica with a cigar then lied. Repeatedly. He got away with it because, #1: he was the President of The United States and Conservatives dislike beating up a sitting President, and B: he was a media, liberal, terrorist darling so there was no one calling for his head. He called for head and that was enough. He then was exposed as a cad, a rapist, a philanderer, an incompetent nincompoop, a total failure as Chief Executive, and lets face it, that was some serious punishment.

I despised the man...remember now, upon his election I moved to Australia...but had enough respect for the office that I wanted him brought to task for his felonies but felt that leaving in abject disgrace was suitable punishment. The liberals don't feel that way; they find nothing disgraceful about his tenure as President because he was after all our first black President and needed to be cut plenty of slack. Lets get serious now; if you are of the belief that killing a baby is no big deal, then how on earth would oral in the oval be any big thing?

Democrats can get away with pretty much anything that does not entail shooting an 85 year-old Nun in Macy's window, because Conservatives just want you out of office after you've made an ass of yourself, and liberals see it as an inalienable right to mercilessly fuck with anyone you can get away with fucking with.