Credentialed “Conservative” bloggers from last weekend’s CPAC have created a petition calling for “speaking invitations [to] no longer be extended to Ann Coulter” at the conference.

They declare that “the Age of Ann has passed.”

You’ll pardon us if we’re less than impressed by the call. The “Age of Ann” has been in full swing for years, in no small part, due to folks like the ones signed onto this “open letter,” and only now that she’s uttered a line that even they can’t apologize for — in calling John Edwards a “faggot” — are they hoping to protect themselves by disassociating.

Where were they after she referred to Arabs as “ragheads” at last years conference and joked about “taking a shot” at killing Bill Clinton?

Or when she joked about assassinating Justice John Paul Stevens? Blowing up the NY Times building? Bludgeoning Democrats with baseball bats? And claiming that 9/11 widows were “enjoying” their husbands’ deaths?

Where were they when Coulter posted the private, unpublished family phone number of BRAD BLOG Guest Blogger Lydia Cornell in retaliation for our having posted her responsible, journalistic article which was critical of Coulter? (Coulter was able to run Lydia’s phone number on the front page of her website for days, since Lydia mistakenly offered her the courtesy of commenting on the charges prior to running the article and so had emailed her private phone number to make responding easy. The death threats and visits to Lydia’s house received in return thereafter, we suppose, are thanks for that professional courtesy.)

In February of 2006, The BRAD BLOG posted a short video, revealing Coulter’s long-documented record of hate-speech, as compiled by a true conservative, Daniel Borchers of Citizens for Principled Conservatism. Prior to that, in 2005, we posted his Powerpoint presentation documenting her hypocritical claims of “Christian Values.” Borchers has been calling on conservatives to rid the poison that is Coulter from their movement for years, long before it’s now gotten so hot that these “conservative” bloggers have little choice but to do so in order to save themselves.

All throughout, these phonies have been welcoming her, and apologizing for her, as one of the GOP’s top draws at political fund raisers from coast to coast.

Where are the mea culpas from these newly-ashamed “conservative” bloggers for having given Coulter a pass themselves all of these years? Why is it that they’ve suddenly discovered Christian and/or Family and/or Human Values? Will they be issuing their own apologies for enabling such a vile person for so long?

And while we’re at it — since it’s been shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Coulter committed felony Voter Fraud down in Florida, will these “law and order conservatives” be condemning her for that as well? Even while they support legislation supposedly meant to curb such fraud (but in actuality devised solely to help keep legally-registered voters away from the polls)?

Somehow, we doubt it.