That Ann Coulter Is Such A (Staunchly Conservative, Borderline Anti-Semitic) Kidder 38559

Although she’s generally one of President Bush’s biggest proponents, self-proclaimed writer Ann Coulter shows she’s not above giving the president a few good-natured jabs to prove an important point.

“President George W. Bush is evidently the first mentally retarded person to get a Harvard M.B.A., graduate from the U.S. Air Force Flight School, be elected governor of Texas and then be elected President of the United States twice. I guess this is what they call ‘mainstreaming,’” Coulter writes in her new book, “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.”

“Admittedly,” she adds, “it took Bush two weeks to learn how to pronounce ‘Shiite,’ but he had higher grades at Yale than John Kerry.”

Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that Coulter is not actually questioning the intelligence of George W. Bush (or, for that matter, John Kerry) so much as she’s questioning the intelligence of the American people who so faithfully elected him.

Twice.