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Ann is selling a ton of books from what I hear. Who thinks she could do so with a book designed only to create a tedious, careful and thoughtful "record"?

That is the point exactly. A conservative professor in tweed could produce a well documented, exact tome pointing out all the errors and omissions of past history. It would go no where. Few would read it: Make no impact.

Ann in her "ZIp a dee doh dah" --let it fly --cartoon super-hero way" is making BIG waves: Everyone seems to be discussing it, not just FR. She WILL make an impact. Ten years from now no one will remember a mistake here or there. Only that she helped create a difference.

That is the point exactly. A conservative professor in tweed could produce a well documented, exact tome pointing out all the errors and omissions of past history. It would go no where. Few would read it: Make no impact.

I agree completely. Most of these political books that we see nowadays are like pop music. They're hot for a couple of months and then you can't even give them away.

A couple of weeks ago, I heard Ann suggest on TV that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Am I supposed to believe that she really believes that?

It all reminds me of Madonna, somehow. LOL. ;-)

That's pretty much the way I see it. You could claim that Ann paints the dems with an overly large brush, but they were all out there protecting and shielding the commies and traitors and, as Ann notes, they would have torn Joe McCarthy and HUAC to shreds in any sort of a closed hearing or tribunal. The Truman justice department was set to go after Whittaker Chambers on trumped up charges to protect Alger Hiss. The only chance those guys had was the kind of grandstanding Joe was famous for and getting the truth out into the public spotlight as fast and in as garish a fashion as possible.

Hence the claim that Ann ignores claims that McCarthy was a demagogue carries no weight as far as I am concerned. The guy did a dirty job which nobody else wanted to do. One article on the subject notes that Joe was responsible for the defeat of 12 democrat senators. That just about makes the guy out to be the Lone Ranger, Superman, Moses, and St. George rolled up into a single man.

Picture somebody getting rid of 12 democrat senators today. Could you imagine the benefit to mankind?

A conservative professor in tweed could produce a well documented, exact tome pointing out all the errors and omissions of past history. It would go no where. Few would read it: Make no impact.

Actually a conservative professor in tweed *did* do that. His name is Arthur Herman and he wrote a biography of Joe McCarthy that makes a similiar attempt to rehabilitate the late senator. And you're right...it probably hasn't sold as many copies in it's publication history as Treason did in it's first week.

That said, I like Herman's book better. He's a little more willing to show McCarthy's flaws than Coulter is and is thus a little more credible. For instance, he talks about Whittaker Chamber's negative view of McCarthy and Ann Coulter omits that. It is a more nuanced treatment.

But then complaining about a lack of nuance in Ann Coulter's books is a little like complaining about a lack of pork chops in a kosher deli.