Dan McCarthy makes some very smart points about the Coulter brouhaha.  The problem is not that Coulter predictably says obnoxious things, but that when it comes time to dissent from any party line on anything that actually matters she is mute or, worse, serves the role of an enforcer.  Her fake image as this hard-charging, truth-telling conservative, while always somewhat absurd for a lawyer who clerked at the Supreme Court, doesn’t even have the benefit of unsettling the functionaries and lackeys by using her popularity to oppose or criticise the GOP when it is going wildly astray (as it always is).  All the more reason why it would be far better to ignore her and her remarks than to rush about declaring how appalled everyone is supposed to feel.  This lends her credibility as some sort of rebel or dissenter when she is anything but that.  She is a party hack, of course, and should not get much sympathy now that her fellow wolves have turned on her.