Why?  You hear it all.  When she does it, she's joking.  Which of course is exactly what liberals say in defense of their idiots when they speak.  The other favorite is that it's ok for Ann to do it, because liberals do it too.  Which is the excuse liberals give when their idiots speak.  It's simply turns into a chicken and egg argument.

I've said before that Ann Coulter is the garbage can of conservative thought, and this only reinforces it.  The problem is that she is popular with the die hard believers.  But what about those who you are trying to swing to your side?  Those are the people she turns off... and those are precisely the people you can least afford to alienate.  The diehards will always believe.  It's the folks on the fence that you need to worry about.

If all you care about is preaching to the choir, then for sure Ann Coulter is the perfect person to do it.  But if you want to encourage more people to join your side, then shut her up before it's too late.  No excuses.  Every time someone cries out about "the other side is mean too" only sounds like you're a 6 year old crying to mommy that the other person started it.  Is that who you want to be?