Okay I just reviewed my first answer, because I thought I'd answered and not ducked your non-political question. Now I will say it clearly: I would not recommend to my kid that she act like Ann does in public, but what I've seen and heard in public is fine, and if that's what my daughter did, I'd approve.
I think it is misunderstood -- a lot of people don't get the joke, just as many people don't get Rush's inflated assessement of himself ("every inch of my glorious naked body"). I think the wishing of rat poison and so forth is perfectly appropriate given the way spkesbabes of the left have, for example, wished heart-attacks on Clarence Thomas.
Ann is, IMHO, a satirist, and tht kind of remark is satire, or so I have taken such remarks coming from her.
But when I say Ann is a warrior, I mean that as a high compliment, and I would be proud if someone said my daughter was a warrior.
I have long thought that perspective to be accurate about Rush.
I think Rush probably has a bit of an overinflated view of himself--but not 1/100th what a lot of people seem to think he has. He's spoofing his image up one side and down the other. And probably enjoying winding up the DIMRATS with it. I think it's his little joke with himself and those discerning enough to catch it.
I think Ann does some things similarly at times.