I personally always look at Ann Coulter and think “If we all just ignore her, she will disappear” but the fun thing about our world is that crazy sells books and knocking crazy gets people watching television and reading blogs. It also might help raise money or so hopes the John Edward’s team.

Yesterday Ms. Coulter appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews where Mrs. Edwards called in to ask “can we stop the insanity” in so many words. The exchange was quickly jumped upon, according to The Hill, by the Edwards team in a fundraising e-mail and a drive is being centered around the exchange similar to the one Team Edwards put together when Coulter called Edwards a derogatory word not so long ago.

I have noted the Edwards campaign is reportedly hard up to finish their fundraising goal for Q2 meaning the exchange undoubtedly came at a pretty coincidental time. You can check out the campaign Web site which now has a section devoted to the incident with video and a helpful option to donate.

The problem with this strategy is that it gives you a short term potential gain for fundraising but gives ample media exposure to Coulter who will no doubt use it to attack 9/11 widows or orphans or whatever in order to sell more books, thereby creating further “outrage” and thereby elevating her status more.

The right hasn’t learned its lesson with people like Michael Moore & the left hasn’t learned its lesson with people like Ann Coulter. Therefore everyone just gets unhappy, political discourse gets tossed into the ground and everyone complains about “how bad the system is”.