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Book: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans by Ann Coulter
Genre: Political nonfiction
Length: 269 pp.
Grade: B+

Human Events Store Summary: "The truth," says Ann Coulter, "cannot be delivered with novocaine." In her latest blockbuster, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, she wallops Democrats with a full dose of unvarnished, unadulterated reality—as only Coulter can deliver it. Witty, sharp-tongued, outrageous, and always faithfully conservative, here is Ann at her best, running circles around liberal pundits, pols and Leftist wackos before they even know what has hit them. 

My Thoughts: As I said under my The Last Novel review, Ann Coulter is my guilty pleasure. I've read Godless and How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) and I felt like Ann Coulter made a lot of good points. In this book, it wasn't quite as good, because it was just a collection of her quotes about various issues as well as a short—or maybe medium-length—blurb thing at the beginning of each chapter explaining some of her views that weren't told in quotes, but I really enjoyed it.

Some parts bothered me a bit more now than they did, because Ann was sort of throwing the harshness at us a bit more than usual in this book, but I felt like a lot of the book was quite true. She could have phrased it a bit more polite way, I admit, but a lot of her little quips and jokes toward liberals amused me. I don't hate liberals and Democrats as much—I don't hate them at all, as a matter of fact—as Ann Coulter seems to, but a lot of what liberals believe bother me—not everything, but mostly their ideas on abortion and such like that.

Ann's one of those authors, I've found, that you either like or hate. If you like her views and are able to overlook a few quips and look beyond to her points, then you'll probably like her. If you're a strong liberal, you probably won't. For someone like me, I don't take her  books entirely seriously, but I get a lot of my reasons for believing certain things for her. I don't make them as harsh as she does, but yes, she influences me a bit.

Overall, my favorite sections were probably the ones about sex (Sex: "Virile Pacifist" Is an Oxymoron), abortion (Baby-Killing: Abort Liberals, Not Children) even though I don't agree with the chapter title, evolution (Evolution, Alchemy, and Other "Settled" Scientific Theories), and more, even though all of the chapters were amusing and fun to shift my way through.

Hmm. Perhaps the main reason why I liked this book is because you got a mishmash of Ann's thoughts on most of the main issues between liberals and conservatives, so if you want to read her views on some things and are able to look past the quips and such and look at her points, then I'd recommend you pick this book up at your local bookstore or libary.

I would not recommend this book to liberals, however. That's what Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg is for.

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