Suggested Title for Ann Coulter’s Next Book …

… “Delusional.”

That’s the one word which best describes her column Wednesday.

Virtually every statement is an exercise in sheer falsehood, fabrication, misrepresentation, and/or fantasy.

I’ll take just one item, because it relates to hard numbers, and cannot be spun:

Purely to hurt Romney, the Iowa Republican Party fiddled with the vote tally to take Romney’s victory away from him and give it to Rick Santorum — even though the “official count” was missing eight precincts. Isn’t the party apparatus of a state considered part of the Establishment?

On the night of January 3, Iowa looked like this (framed as “final results” in Update 2 at the link)
- Romney – 30,015 (24.557%)
- Santorum – 30,007 (24.551%)

On the night of January 5, KCCI in Des Moines reported (BizzyBlog link) that Romney got credit for 20 votes he didn’t deserve in one Iowa precinct. There seems to be no underhanded reason for the gentleman who raised the matter to bring it up. The Occam’s Razor conclusion, absent other firm evidence, has to be that Romney got 20 more votes than he deserved, and that Santorum received 12 more votes than Romney.

In the midst of all of this, Rick Santorum said he was told that there were offsetting errors in other precincts that went Romney’s way, but as far as I know he never had specifics (nor did anyone else I’m aware of).

On January 18, the Iowa GOP said they would base their results on all but eight precincts which had not submitted proper paperwork, but that they would not declare a winner. (For Ann’s information, that’s the state’s hidebound “party establishment” which would not declare the winner to be the guy with the most votes, i.e., Santorum 29,839 Romney – 29,805).

There was also this from the Associated Press’s story on the party’s “nobody won” delaration:

Unofficial election night results from the eight precincts, gathered by the party and reported that night by news organizations, including the AP, gave Santorum 81 votes and Romney 46. If those results had been certified to state party officials by Wednesday’s deadline, Santorum’s lead in the final tally would have been 69 votes.

On January 20, presumably after getting tired of enduring well-deserved and unrelenting ridicule to the point of possibly endangering the Hawkeye State’s status as the first official presidential electoral event in the nation, the party declared Santorum the winner.

Iowa was a story of the establishment digging in and declaring Mitt Romney the winner and then comically claiming that no one won until it was dragged kicking and screaming into admitting that Rick Santorum won because, well, he got the most official votes (and the most votes after the day-after adjustment noted above, and even more of a margin had the eight uncounted precincts been counted). If anything, the party holdout was done “purely to hurt Santorum,” not Romney, as Coulter’s excerpted paragraph claims.

On this, and so many other items in her column, Ann Coulter is truly delusional. It is a sad sight to see. Someone get her help.