That’s why when she is put under an intense probe of her positions, she often has to back down from a comment or admit that she didn’t have all the available information about a subject. Either that or make another accusation or shout another catchword, as if that should cover for her lack of scholarship in true conservatism. Her “debate” style consists solely of one-liners and zingers that sound more like a comedian’s put down than informed opinion.

There’s nothing wrong with that if it’s just for entertainment and she is simply playing the role of “mean skinny over-reactive and hyperbolically conservative woman” who could be analogized to Mrs. Malaprop. But too many people see her as being some sort of great thinker and that worries me because the country needs better thinkers than her and the Republicans seem to be satisfied with mediocre (or non-existent) thinking.

OUR COUNTRY NEEDS CRITICAL THINKERS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE!!!! It doesn’t matter what party they affiliate with–we just need some brainiacs in the room when we make decisions on major US policy. Bush seemed to disdain brainiacs and now the Republican party that formed around him seems incapable of embracing a person who engages in the kind critical thought necessary to make GOOD policy decisions instead of BAD ones. Our countrymen have suffered enough from the Bush style of bad policy decisionmaking, haven’t they?

That is unless you think a guy who shouts “YOU LIE!!” is the hallmark of intellectual discourse that institutions such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, and Cornell sought to produce.

AMERICA–WE CAN DO BETTER THAN PEOPLE WITH EMPTY IDEAS AND NO IMAGINATION!!! I know none of you think that Ann Coulter is the best thinker out there. If you do, I feel sorry for you because I know you haven’t experienced much of the world beyond your television.

But when you make jokes at the expence of 911 widows and their families you have no class.

One of the BEST debaters around!