Having crossed the line, she speaks from bitter, childless experience. It's no fun when small children throw rocks and half eaten ice cream at you, shrieking "Skeletor" or mispronounce "haridan." Her dog left after crapping "LUZR" on the lawn. Maybe she can heal her heart by sharing a malt with Ted Rall.

You know, I'm just gonna leave that up there as testament that I need coffee.

You don't suppose she's just trying to suppress the competition?

She's got to get out of this shy, awkward, wall-flower stage and really get out there and tell people what she feels.

Hiding it all away is not healthy.

The scary thing is that if she let loose any more, I think she'd blow an artery or something. I understand the woman is doing performance art, but she really pushes herself to the edge a lot. That can't be healthy.

The amazing thing about Coulter is that she seems to find an audience. Who'd of guessed, but crazy sells. Only someone truly delusional with profound anti-social tendencies would write stuff like this. I mean, her new book and speeches she's made read like some of 1930s Nazi propaganda with calls for assassinations of Supreme Court Justices, and others. Coulter is clearly disturbed and her history of employment demonstrates a pattern of increasingly destabilized behavior combined with delusions of grandeur. It's sad really, that someone with such a manic disorder can continue to spiral herself into a world of self destruction. It's even more profoundly sad that there are those that actually listen to what she has to say.

I've never been a fan of Ann Coulter, but now I'm becoming sorry for her. She seems to have real problems.

I think that the best that could happen is for people to ignore her, and hope that that causes her to calm down rather than act out even more to get attention.

She makes it essential for conservatives to say from time to time: "no she doesn't represent me." She compels you to repudiate her. And for those who have been tardy in doing so, she gets worse.

Man Coulter plays the media for all its worth, and its fun to watch. She has become the female PT Barnum in self promotion. Of course, the media doesn't have a hissy fit when Al Franken talks about executing Karl Rove (because its "satire").

Shes laughing all the way to the bank folks. Could she make her points in a more tactful and less inflamatory manner? Yeah, but that wouldn't sell books, and gurantee millions in free advertising.

What's with the Coulter bashing? She's right.

People who think they have a monopoly on shaming and bashing get real upset when people start returning their serves. Go Ann.

Matthew(#7)... Nobody is right all of the time. Ann Coulter can be right some of the time, and still be a blowhard. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Though Gabriel's take on Coulter as the just revenge that exploits the media's every undesirable trait and slavish tic in an ideologically hostile rather than an ideologically friendly way... there's a lot to that. Essentially, his point is that modern media + celebrity culture + decline of standards = blowhards as a successful strategy, and Coulter just picks up what's there for the taking.

Still, a classic case of "even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat."

What disturbs me about Coulter is that she seems to be actively hostile to the principles of democracy and free speech. She has advocated "repressing" Liberals, and talked about forcibly converting non-Christian countries to Christianity.

She is a wide eyed extremist, and an embarrasment to conservatives like myself. What is most worrying is that she consistently manages to get her books on the best-seller list.

JOE BOB: I'll bet that little gal could blow the chrome off a trailer hitch.

BILLY RAY: I'll bet she could blow a grapefruit up a drain pipe.

Tom: Can you give us a quoted example where Ann has advocated "repressing" liberals? Or forcibly converting non-christian countries to christianity?

Can you define your use of the word "repressing" here?

Thanks.

Glen (#11)... Actually, she got mixed up and ended up trying to blow the grapefruit up a trailer hitch. It didn't end well.

Norm (#12)... Follow the link in my post, hosted at that notorious pinko site Townhall.com.

Joe,

Oh, right, that is a "quote" on that link. Can't actually be true; I'm going to try to get a response from her (if I can), on the repressing free speech one. Just can't be true. Must be another out of context thing.

Beating up on girls in a sexist way to prove your objectivity; Priceless

Norm:

In an article written the day after 9/11:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

"(Liberals) are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment," Coulter said during an Oct. 21, 2005, speech at the University of Florida.