Coulter As Gateway Drug

In the past, I’ve defended her, even as her rhetoric got worse, as a “gateway conservative”– an entertaining act that pulled in folks who are ticked off at the modern liberal movement, but not necessarily ideological conservatives.  However, once those people start reading her, I argued, they generally migrate to other conservative writers like Thomas Sowell and Charles Krauthammer, which I felt was a net win for conservatism. ~Mary Katherine Ham

So these people migrating from Coulter (who at least occasionally stumbles across something true in her flacking and spittle-laden diatribes) to the less sensational, but far more reliable War Party hack that Krauthammer is represents a win for conservatism?  I have never seen a more succinct summary of why people should be against Ann Coulter’s writings than their function as a path that leads the innocent and naive into the dark underworld of Krauthammer columns.