What Coulter and other conservatives are really mad about is that Saul mentioned the existence of Romneycare, the model for Obamacare, and that their candidate is not quite the natural politician that previous Republican nominees have been. Here are the stages.

Denial. In this stage, there is an attempt to distinguish Obamacare, which is a federal program that seeks to provide universal health insurance by requiring insurers to sell insurance to everyone while also mandating that all individuals carry health insurance, from Romneycare, which is a state program that seeks to provide universal health insurance by requiring insurers to sell insurance to everyone while also mandating that all individuals carry health insurance. Because, after all, Romney likes Romneycare. "Saul was saying precisely what her superiors in the Romney campaign believe, not least of them Mitt Romney," The New Republic's Noam Schieber writes. You know who else liked Romneycare? Ann Coulter! In A February column titled, "Three Cheers for Romneycare!" [Exclamation point hers.] "The hyperventilating over government-mandated health insurance confuses a legal argument with a policy objection," Coulter wrote. "What went wrong with Romneycare wasn't a problem in the bill, but a problem in Massachusetts: Democrats." That's a distinction.

Anger. There has been a lot of anger at the media -- why won't reporters be as mean to Obama as they are to Romney? But the rage turned toward the Romney campaign when the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare's mandate as constitutional under the taxing authority. Obama couldn't say he didn't raise taxes and say the law was constitutional. "It seemed obvious that these two things were in direct contradiction with one another given the decision, and assaulting the Democrats on this point was going to be easy," RedState's Ben Howe wrote. "Then comes word today that there are no such plans from the Romney camp." Instead of calling Obama a tax-raiser, Romney initially said it wasn't a tax -- because that would have made Romney a tax-raiser as well.

Bargaining. You might think Coulter's rant would qualify as the previous stage, Anger. But it's better to classify this as bargaining, because the idea is that there's something that can be fixed. There's an enemy within the Romney campaign -- and maybe that enemy isn't Saul herself, but her alleged incompetence -- and if that enemy can just be extracted, everything will be okay. Coulter demanded, "Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney -- and I mean the big donors -- ought to call Mitt Romney and say, 'If Andrea Saul isn't fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they're not giving another dime. Because it's not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has.'" They just have to teach the Romney campaign what's okay, RedState's Erick Erickson says. He didn't call for Saul's firing, but said the outrage would be productive, as it would work as a "housebreaking." He pointed favorably to a tweet by Dan McLaughlin: "What conservatives are doing re Andrea Saul’s comment is the same as how you housebreak your dog. Romney needs to know not to go there."