The event, to be held in Miami Sept. 16–18, offers attendees a choice between “the world of standards and morality, self-government and accountability to God or the world of tyranny and ever-changing moral codes enforced by government.” But while the conference website doesn’t include a schedule of topics yet, the lineup of speakers suggests it could focus on whether Obama is legitimately the president.

The 15 speakers include a Who’s Who of the “birther” movement, and many have ties to the conservative website WorldNetDaily, which is the event’s sponsor. That site’s managing editor and a conference speaker, David Kupelian, penned the piece, “Why I care about Obama eligibility issue.”

Kupelian’s boss, WND founder Farah, is also outspoken in his belief that Obama was not born in the United States. Farah has been instrumental in plugging Corsi’s book, Obama Nation, which questions the legality of an Obama presidency.

Other Farah employees who are speaking: Floyd Brown, who says there’s no proof Obama was born in the the country, and Aaron Klein, who has written a book doubting Obama’s legitimacy.

Also invited to address the confab is Gary DeMar, president of American Vision, a small religious right outfit who has doubts about Obama’s legitimacy.

“Whether Barack Obama was born in the United States is important, but even more important is for him to demonstrate his constitutional loyalty to a nation built on Christian principles,” DeMar wrote in 2009.

Keyes, the perennial Senate and presidential candidate, refuses to refer to Obama as “president” and has filed suit to gain access to Obama’s birth certificate.

Also speaking alongside Bachmann is former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, who shares similar views with birthers, having once said, “Send Obama back to Kenya.”

Saturday Night Live alum and tea party activist Victoria Jackson told a rally in April, “Whether he has the birth certificate or not, he’s not an American.”

Only one speaker — Ann Coulter  — has the distinction of taking a firm public stance against “birtherism.” She called the movement’s proponents “cranks,” yet she’ll be sharing the stage in Florida with a line-up that includes a majority of so-called “cranks.”

As will Bachmann, who Farah described Sunday as “one of the leaders in calling for a repeal of Obamacare.”

“She’s a rock star, a principled, liberty-loving woman of conviction.,” he wrote. “It will be a treat to see her and hear her and interact with her in Miami.”

Laura Melnick’s piece, “Michele’s Precious Moments,” features various infamous quotations from the second-term Republican on topics such as global warming and human evolution:

The other piece, “GOP Sideshow,” is a triptych by St. Paul artist Teresa Anderson. It features Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

See more political seed art at our Flickr page.

I would be Hitler… Well, you know, you get to call of the New Deal. I’d like to call off the Holocaust, you know, World War II, the Anschluss… But I’d keep the Volkswagen.

MATCH #2 NORM COLEMAN (American Patriots) vs. AL FRANKEN (Progressive Alliance)
Franken is fired up. Coleman sidesteps the initial charge and wastes no time attacking Franken’s bad leg. … Franken flails on him. He pulls Coleman up by the hair and throws him through the ropes outside. Coleman topples out of the ring and onto the floor. Franken on the edge of the ring. Flying elbow. Coleman’s legs jerk up at impact and then slam back down. Franken again pulls Coleman up by the hair. Blatant choke. The referee tries to get in the middle but Franken isn’t letting go. Franken gets a chair. *CLANG* He takes out the referee. *CLANG* Down goes Coleman. … Cookie sheet is next. *WHACK* The cookie sheet is bent at a ninety degree angle after Franken uses it. …AND HERE COMES TIM PAWLENTY!” Pawlenty runs down and swipes the chair from Franken. *CLANG* Franken staggers backwards. Mark Ritchie makes a run at Pawlenty. *CLANG* And falls backward as well. Franken gets up and charges again. *CLANG* Franken pirouettes and then collapses. …

Read the complete (and completely deranged) action here.

Here’s a Youtube video of that interview.

And, oh yeah, heaven looks like “New York City during the Republican National Convention… [people are] happy, Christians, tolerant.”When the host, Donny Deutsch, who’s Jewish, asked Coulter if, in her utopian world, she would want everyone to be Christian, she not only affirmed that, but accused him of being a non-practicing Jew and said that he’d be better off being a Christian.

“It’s a lot easier [to be Christian]…it’s kind of a fast-track,” she said sarcastically.

This prompted Deutsch, who said he’s indeed a practicing Jew, to point out that Coulter is really not that different from the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who wants to wipe Israel off the map. “I’m offended by that personally,” he said.

So have many people been offended by Coulter. This is the same woman who called Al Gore and John Edwards a “total fag” and a “faggot,” respectively. Don’t you think that there’s something remarkably unchristian about her mean spirits?

Coulter might be everyone’s provocateur, but her anti-Semitic remark is a microcosm of a larger phenomenon: A group of extreme right-wing Republicans on a mission to Christianize America. Jews are their soft, long-term target. Once they evangelize everyone else, they hope to convince Jews to speed along on that “fast track” terrain. 

But what’s really striking is that there have been no major outcries about Coulter’s nonsensical comments. This is the kind of tirade that conservative media outlets and blogs would feast upon, if it was uttered by none other than one of their own.

Recall that whole Desmond Tutu episode from last week: Unlike Coulter, he never cast aspersions on Judaism as a faith and Jews as people, but criticized Israel. He was denied an opportunity to speak at a Catholic university, which allowed Coulter to speak. Of course, St. Thomas eventually did the right thing and reversed its decision.

It’s hard enough to mention Coulter and Tutu in the same breath, yet the very right-wing Republicans who mostly drove the anti-Tutu campaign all over the world are embracing Coulter. She remains their star speaker in college campuses and other gatherings.

It begs the question: Where do they want to take America? At a time when the U.S. is rapidly becoming more diverse then ever, the Coulter camp has embarked on a mission to turn the clock backward. 

Alas, this rogue woman has plenty of supporters.