Douchebag of the Year finalists

I've narrowed my choices down to five after skimming off the "cream of the crap." I eliminated short-list nominees for several reasons: 1. I wanted a winner with an actual name. 2. I eliminated people that were just plain stupid and whose actions resulted in consequences that they could not foresee in their stupidity. 3. People who were just flat-out cruel more than they were douchebags.

Here are the 5 finalists and explanations why they survived the cut:

Curtis Gokey for suing the city of Lodi for damages done his truck after he backed the city's truck into it. I mean, its one thing to do what he did, but how can he actually think that the city would pay for that? Its because our society has created victims and Curtis wants a free lunch.

Ann Coulter for her lovely hateful comments like "Hollywood feels that it has done enough for the blacks" and calling homosexuality "the love that won't shut up." Also, she really earned this honor with the coinage of the term "gaysian". Really, more anything she gets this because I really think she believes what she says and doesn't see how absolutely retarded it sounds. Maybe there should be an honorable mention for any of the millions of douchebags out there that buy into the fecal matter that spew forth from her equine face.

Pat Robertson. What can I say about good ol' Pat? Whether its his claim that he can leg-press 2000 pounds or the many many many times he has tasted the sweet taste of his patent leather shoes, how does he not end up a finalist?

George Allen is an easy pick since he is one of the few people in the 21st century that can be proud of the fact that he blew his entire career by using an obscure French racial epithet. From Presidential hopeful to hopeless racist in about 3 months - sounds like a douchebag to me.

Finally, Ted Stevens. Maybe he is so old that he forgot that the internet existed. However, the first real direct victim of bloggers had to face the fact that he was holding back a very popular bill just to protect his own as. Plus, it contributed greatly to all of us winning Time magazine's person of the year.

Any input is of course welcome. The final winner will be announced Sunday.