Saturday nutpick-a-palooza: When Ann Coulter isn't the craziest voice in the room

If you thought SHE was crazy... Ann Coulter:

Republicans don't control the U.S. Senate and they don't have the presidency. Instead of wasting time and energy in doomed efforts to defeat President Obama's Cabinet nominees or sucking up to illegal aliens, why not focus on issues where Republicans can be off-the-charts popular while forcing Democrats into taking stupid positions?

There's no such thing as an "off-the-charts popular" Republican policy, so this is bound to be hilarious.

At the risk of joining the Republicans' circular firing squad when we ought to be fighting Democrats, here's how I think Republicans should be looking at things:

-- Pushing amnesty for illegal aliens: 80 percent of Americans ferociously oppose you.

Actually, immigration reform is wildly popular, even among Republicans.

-- Pointlessly opposing Obama's Cabinet nominees: 99 percent of Americans need a constant supply of NoDoz just to listen.

-- Staking out an Amnesty International position on a president's hypothetical ability to use a drone against an "American citizen" (named Anwar al-Awlaki) about to launch a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil: 70 percent of Americans are against you.

It doesn't matter because the name was Muslim.

-- Opposing the Democrats' idiotic proposals on gun control: 60-70 percent of Americans support you, but the other 30 to 40 percent will hate you because they want to "Do Something."

Wrong. But if 70 percent really supported Republicans on guns, why would Coulter demand they go with the minority? Weird.

-- Proposing the involuntary commitment of dangerous psychotics and implementing measures to prevent them from obtaining guns: 83 percent of Americans support you and will be furious at Democrats for trying to undercut such laws.

It wasn't Democrats who eliminated funding for mental health clinics, and it wouldn't be Democrats fighting to reinstate such funding. But in any case, head below the fold to see how the natives took her suggestions.

Also, I'm adding a poll -- now that I've done this three weeks, here's another chance to decide whether I should continue this feature. I already spend significant time reading right-wing sites and their comments. The question is whether you want to be dragged into this world every Saturday.