BUT CONSERVATIVES HATE COULTER'S PERSONAL ATTACKS! REALLY!

That's the message I keep encountering in the right-wing blogosphere, but last July, when John Hawkins of Right-Wing News asked righty bloggers to choose their "least favorite people on the right," Coulter was way back in the pack at #6, significantly less appalling to them than John McCain, and less appalling than Arlen Specter.

This poll, by the way, took place at the end of a month in which Coulter repeatedly attacked 9/11 widows who'd criticized the Bush administration, called for the execution of Bill Keller of The New York Times, suggested that Bill Clinton had "latent homosexuality," and called Al Gore a "total fag."

Given the right's well-documented distaste for guttermouth personal attacks -- at least as of this weekend -- you'd think this series of outrages might have lifted Coulter to the top of the Hawkins chart. In fact, she actually slipped from the previous year, when she'd finished at #3.