I'm tired of Ann Coulter. She bores me. She gets more diaries devoted to her here than she deserves. Ann isn't a psychotic and she isn't stupid--she's just selling her schtik, and it's made her famous and rich. Whatever. People do all kinds of things for money and fame. The real problem isn't Ann Coulter. It's the networks who keep putting her on television. And we just encourage the buzz around her by treating her as if she matters.
Those of you with wingnuts in your lives know the futility of debating the issues. I see the same thing in every debate with a hard-core republican--the same inability to agree on the basic premises of how the world works. There really isn't a common ground. The meanings we give to the most basic language--words like 'freedom' and 'justice'--are fundamentally different. I welcome converts, but I think the best way to go is just to beat these fuckers into the ground every election day. You can't reason with people who don't share your basic assumptions about the world. You can beat them--you can have fun debates, but you usually can't win them over (there are very rare exceptions, of course).
People like Coulter feed on this gap between the left and right. She needs to outrage the left just as much as she needs to feed the right. It's how her type keeps getting press. So stop writing about her! Stop being outraged by her! Sure, complain to the networks who continue to treat her as a legitimate political commentator, but don't pretend she's an idealogue--she's just another opportunist feeding off the partisan divide. She doesn't believe what she says--she just makes her living off of saying it.