Ann Coulter Book-Sales Stimulus is Failing

Despite attention-grabbing antics, like a lightning-fast "lifetime ban" from NBC and an out-of-left-field racist swipe at Bobby Jindal, conservative queen Ann Coulter can't seem to get traction with the book-buying public. From Conde nast Portfolio:

in its two months on sale, Guilty has sold 100,500 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan (a number that only reflects around 70 percent of actual sales).

But with it moving steadily down the best-seller list, it looks certain that Guilty will fall far short of matching her earlier results. Her 2006 polemic, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, sold 279,100 copies in hardcover, according to BookScan; Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror, published in 2003, sold 396,600 hardcover copies, and 2002's Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, sold 333,100 copies, plus another 108,300 in paperback.

So, what gives? Can't Ann get some of Rush Limbaugh's overflow?

I think the answer can be found in the recent dust-up between Meghan McCain and the Coulter wing of the Republican party. There are millions of conservatives who fall outside the extreme, Bush dead-ender bubble, who would like to be able to mix with the rest of society without being embarassed. The jury is still out on what effect Rush Limbaugh's attention-whoring will have, but Rush's show is more of a bunker to retreat into than an instrument to grow the party.

The nice thing about liberal dis-unity is that the entire movement doesn't suffer in the eyes of the general public based on the actions of one idiot.

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