Ann Coulter is to certain members of the Right what the MTV show Jackass has been to certain members of extreme sports. I've watched the show and shook my head, not finding it particularly funny or witty or even remotely clever - The Colbert Report it's not - and yet it's a train wreck from which I can't turn away.
Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera and Steve-O have probably been asked dozens of times "Why in the hell do you do this stuff?" And I'm sure the question gets a "you-just-don't-get-the-joke" snicker as if People Who Aren't Getting Their Buttcheeks Pierced are the ones with the issues.
The people who like and defend Ann Coulter don't want you to see the obvious - that you knew these people in elementary school.
Ann Coulter has the same kind of juvenile appeal. In reality her fans were the kids in school who liked to trip the kid who was on crutches, who found it hysterical to see a little old lady on a walker fall onto the pavement, and who occasionally tortured the poor classroom pet.
Coulter's books, her appearances with TV pundits, it's all a smokescreen for the fact that Coulter and her fans are still these people years later. They haven't changed since the sixth grade, only they don't want you to know it. They rely on the notion that because Ann writes books, she's so much smarter and more sophisticated - more evolved than the Jackass boys - and thus so are her fans.
Would having a clinical psychologist lecturing the Jackass boys about why Steve-O shouldn't let Chris Pontius drop a bowling ball on his testicles be any more productive? So what is the rabid need of the Left to respond to Ann Coulter as if she has something mature and relevant to say? She has nothing of substance, only a litany of dusty, moldering taunts, and the Left needs to react to her in the same way they'd react to that idiot at the class reunion with the flower that squirts water.
School's out. Go out and play, Ann, and stop bothering the grownups while they're talking.