Why Is Ann Coulter Embraced By The Right?
Which makes me wonder, why does the right embrace Ann Coulter? She's a bomb-thrower on the level of the worst left-wing demagogues. She's smart and she makes good points occasionally, but her inflamatory style overshadows those things and actually, in my humble opinion, does more to hurt her political movement than help it. Sure she fires up those staunchly on the right, but more level-headed and reasoned discourse could accomplish the same goal and be appealing to those not normally inclined to agree with her.
And for the record, she's not all that good looking either.
Update:
Ann has made her appearance at CPAC. James Joyner has a run-down on the idiocy:
Ann Coulter has just started speaking. She's attracting a lot of attention from convention goers ready for some red meat. (I'm watching via closed-circuit so that I can live blog, so no photos.)
Not shockingly, her speech so far has been a collection of one-liners, mostly around gay marriage and Hollywood elites, including something to the effect that "Nuts are the entirety of the Democratic Party."
That's about par for the course with her. She may be funny, but she doesn't bring much in the way of analysis to the table.












