The New Castrati have taken over the Republican Party

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON, March 3 — Three of the leading Republican presidential candidates on Saturday denounced one of their party’s best-known conservative commentators for using an antigay epithet when discussing a Democratic presidential contender at a gathering of conservatives here.

The remarks by Ann Coulter, an author who regularly speaks at conservative events, were sharply denounced by the candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona, Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Their statements came after Democrats, gay rights groups and bloggers raised a storm of protest over the remarks.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference before an overflow crowd on Friday, Ms. Coulter said, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

We may just have to get used to this. With the three leading candidates for the Republican nomination all being liberals the Republican Party may get its very own collection of PC speech Nazis.

We can hope that this is just an aberration and that all three of them will come to their senses and apologize to Ann, and the rest of us, for being so oatmeal brained as to give in, if even for a second, to the gavnoi of the left.