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Best-selling conservative author Ann Coulter, who has used her nine books to launch vicious attacks on Democrats, is turning her guns on Republicans in a new book out Monday, calling Florida Sen. Marco Rubio a hypocrite, urging donors freeze contributions to the GOP, and demanding that only governors or senators run for the partys presidential nomination.

Her point in Never Trust a Liberal Over 3 -- Especially a Republican is to shake the party out of its doldrums in time for the 2014 and 2016 elections.

Elections matter. Were trying to make the country a better place. But if our candidates dont win, we cant do that, she writes. This isnt a game. We arent picking basketball brackets. Bad things happen when Republicans lose elections and Democrats have veto-proof majorities, she adds in the book provided in advance to Secrets.

While she is most noted for skewering liberals in her weekly columns and nine previous New York Times best sellers, Never Trust puts her on a path for a head-on collision with the establishment Republican Party and even a favored 2016 presidential candidate as she urges the GOP to purge itself of failed tactics, lazy consultants, and gripless potential candidates.

Take Rubio. He is one of the partys leading 2016 candidates, but Coulter dresses him down for promising effective immigration reform while campaigning for the Senate but spitting out a more liberal alternative once elected.

She quotes him slamming amnesty for illegal immigrants as a Senate candidate in 2010. And then he got to Washington and his big legislative initiative was a path to citizenship for illegal aliens! Yes, Rubios plan to solve the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico is to bring them all here, she scolds.

The fashionable pundit pummels the party for wooing untested politicians for president. Why are any congressmen or businessmen showing up in our presidential primaries? They are never going to get the nomination, she says.

The solution is a governor, just like four of the last six presidents. I dont care if it makes you feel good, conservatives: Do not ever, ever considering running a presidential candidate who has not been a senator or preferably a governor. No, not even our beloved Ben Carson. What are we concentrating on? Thats right: winning.

Ditto for House and Senate seats. Stop being stupid, she urges the party, singling out failed candidates like former Rep. Todd Akin, who lost a recent Missouri Senate bid when he talked about legitimate rape.

And to grab that gold ring, she demands that musty political consultants be swept out of the GOP. She blames them for losing four Senate seats the Republicans thought they should have won in 2010 and 2012.

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Ann Coulter Blames Democrats For Shutdown She Supports
Ann Coulter joined Sean Hannity Thursday night to take on what she views as a politically-motivated government shutdown, on the part of President Obama. Lame...

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The right-wing media may be loving the government shutdown, but that doesnt mean theyre willing to assign credit for it to Republicans. On the contrary, the overriding message to be taken from the rights coverage of the shutdown is that its an awesome liberation from Big Government, a political win-win for Republicans, and totally, entirely, without question all President Obamas fault.

Ann Coulter, for example, appeared on Sean Hannitys Fox News show and criticized the president for what she claimed were politically motivated park closings. From the Daily Caller:

[T]hey are trying to shut down privately-run areas, Coulter said. All of these privately run park areas that have not only never been shut down before, but take no federal money they pay money. They pay rent to the Treasury and theyre not losing money. Theyre not furloughed government workers. Were going to be paid. This is absolutely 100 percent political. Its like when Obama said, no White House tours for the sequester and then instantly uses Air Force One to fly his dog up to Marthas Vineyard. Normally I dont comment on things like that. There is enough other things to complain about hes doing this to punish people so that he can blame Republicans when its 100 percent the Democrats.

Coulter didnt focus entirely on the negative, however. She also took time to explain why the shutdown was a good thing for conservatives. After claiming herself to be usually opposed to shutdowns, Coulter gave her three reasons for why, this time, she welcomed one. From the Daily Caller:

Number one this abomination of Obamacare which is already a disaster, she continued. We should talk about that. Number two its Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and not Newt Gingrich running at this time. And number three and the most important we have part of the media now. There was no Fox News in 1995. Nobody was on the Internet. Talk radio wasnt as big as it is now. And if you look at the polls even with 100 percent of the non-Fox media pushing the idea that its Republicans, Republicans, Republicans in 1995 the gap between the public blaming Republicans versus Democrats was 23 points. This is according to the CBS poll. Its only nine points. Were talking more about Obamacare and it will go down even more.

For his part, Pat Buchanan weighed in on Sean Hannitys radio show by calling Obama a savage partisan who was enforcing a genuinely sadistic shutdown strategy. More from the Daily Caller:

I think even many of the presidents supporters, at least some of them, will candidly admit hes among the most partisan presidents weve ever had, Buchanan said. And the relationship between the Republican House and the Republicans in the Senate and the White House, and the fact he didnt meet with [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell for 18 months, I think that president is becoming quite frankly becoming increasingly a savage partisan. What he is doing in this debate and this argument, however, I think is genuinely sadistic.

To go out there yesterday and suggest, you know maybe were going to default and rattle the markets where they plunge today, to have his aides call over there at the Park Service and tell them not to let the veterans visit the World War II Memorial when theyre on honor flight their last chance in this life to meet and honor the guys with whom they served and to visit the memorial, which belongs to them what kind of mind would do that?

Like Coulter, Buchanan stated the shutdown was soon to prove to be to the Republicans benefit. In the Daily Callers words, Buchanan indicated Obama was playing into Republicans hands.

While both Buchanan and Coulter described the human costs of the shutdown in sympathetic terms, not everyone on the right was so full of fellow-feeling. Stuart Varney of Fox Business chose a different path, explaining that, when it comes to the more than 800,000 furloughed federal employees, he wanted to punish these people. From Media Matters:

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Blame game: The right-wing media on the government shutdown

Ann Coulter joined Sean Hannity Thursday night to take on what she views as a politically-motivated government shutdown, on the part of President Obama. Lamenting the closure of the World War II memorial and other privately-run sights, Coulter said, This is absolutely 100% political.

Hes doing this to punish people so he can blame Republicans when it is 100% the Democrats, Coulter continued. Picking up where Hannity left off in his previous segment, she said the entire fight has come down to whether Democrats will agree to live under Obamacare like the rest of America.

Coulter explained why she was for a government shutdown to achieve this goal in 2013 when she was against it back when Newt Gingrich was leading the charge against President Bill Clinton. Most importantly, she said, conservative now own part of the media landscape.

There was no Fox News in 1995, she said. Nobody was on the internet. Talk radio wasnt as big as it is now. If you look at the polls, even with 100% of the non-Fox media pushing the idea that its Republicans fault, the gap between those who blame Democrats and those who blame Republicans is far smaller than it was in 18 years ago.

And on Republicans who Hannity described as giving in to the bullying of President Obama and showing signs of compromise, Coulter asked, Were they in a coma during the launch of the Obamacare exchanges? Have they seen whats happening?

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