I respectively disagree. Ann Coulter does NOT hurt her cause or our cause when she restricts herself to going after people as well-deserving of meciless condemnation as the Jersey Girls or Murtha. Even if you quibble with her particular choice of words, you'd have to be INSANE to feel any sympathy for the Jersey Girls or Murtha because Ann might have been SLIGHTLY too mean to them, and the insane are going to vote the straght Democrat ticket anyway. It is IMHO useful to be reminded occasionally just exactly how scummy the Jersey Girls were and are even if you wish to stipulate that Ann exaggerated it a bit. After all she is NOT an elected official, like her hero Senator McCarthy, who can justly be held to a higher standard.
Only when she goes after the clearly UNDESERVING with such savagery, like for example SCOTUS nominees Myers and Roberts, does she hurt her cause and our cause.
I didn't have a problem with her going after the scotus nominees. She wanted conservative appointments. They jury is still out, but I'm still hopeful Roberts is going to be good, though I have a feeling he's going to become the new swing vote.
And this... did you support Myers? Did you think she was an appropriate nomination? Did you really want to be dragged through the mud during confirmation hearings and then face the President's own party rejecting her? Puhleaze. She had to be one of the weakest nominees in history.