Ann Coulter has never been persuasive, except the the choir or the ignorant in the first place. Her books look like they where cut and pasted from the right wing conspiracy anti-left websites, with nothing but her own words stringing them together in some vaguely coherent way. Some of us, having read the apparent sources of her screwball ideas wonder how she managed to form an opinion about Edwards and express it withoug her head exploding from the strain.

Mind you, maybe she did for all the opinions herself and they just scarilly mirrior the stuff posted on the web. But, in some segments of the right things like blatent plagerization, without any attempt to cite the originals, seems quite normal. Some have even acted shocked when trying the same thing at colleges and not being immediately handed a PhD for it.

What saddens me is that she ever got taken seriously by anyone and that the reason she did is that some people just don't get that intellectualism means "thinking", not just doing google searches for things the support your viewpoint, then posting them like they where your own ideas. Its like some of the quotes claiming the founding fathers where modern Christians and not Diests, which can, if you try **very** hard, be traced to one website, where the trail just vanishes into nothing. Everyone that wants it to be true quotes and requotes them, not one of them can cite an original source and all the valid citable sources people keep telling them over and over, "Do not contain any such text." But who cares, someone said it, everyone repeats it, so it must be true..

Though, the left is just as bad with anything dealing with Iraq in a lot of ways. I can't say I trust either side on much beyond whiping their own asses at this point, without finding some way to ignore some large chunk of reality in favor of their imaginary version of it.