[tortoise]

Conservative bomb-thrower or not, Ann Coulter's grasp of science and technical topics is about as good as Rush Limbaugh's. Which is to say embarrassingly bad enough that it makes me want to change the channel. Their opinions are sufficiently poorly informed on those matters that they should not be prognosticating in public for the sake of their credibility.

That said, Ann Coulter says whatever she thinks will sell books to the hard right, whether it makes really sense or not. She drives the liberals crazy, but she is not above saying really stupid things if she thinks it will score points.

[balrog666]

Conservative bomb-thrower or not, Ann Coulter's grasp of science and technical topics is about as good as Rush Limbaugh's. Which is to say embarrassingly bad enough that it makes me want to change the channel. Their opinions are sufficiently poorly informed on those matters that they should not be prognosticating in public for the sake of their credibility.

But Rush is usually smart enough to stay away from topics that reveal his ignorance of the subject matter. Too bad Ann never learned that lesson.

That said, Ann Coulter says whatever she thinks will sell books to the hard right, whether it makes really sense or not. She drives the liberals crazy, but she is not above saying really stupid things if she thinks it will score points.

Indeed. It seems to be her primary modus operandi.

[steve-b]

That said, Ann Coulter says whatever she thinks will sell books to the hard right, whether it makes really sense or not.

And, once she decides that it's the best way to get attention, she'll reverse polarity (a la David Brock) and bat for the other team.

You heard it here first.