Ann Coulter has sharp elbows, sharper brain cells, and a million one-liners.

Ann Coulter is living proof that a lone conservative can write six bestsellers while being assaulted by six liberal newspapers. And, as excitement builds around the upcoming release of our funny girl’s seventh book, I think it is time to revisit her greatest hits.

Ann Coulter, after all, has sharp elbows, sharper brain cells, and a million one-liners. What else can I say? Here are some of my favorite hits and punches from the ring: 
 
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Book 1 (1998): High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (New York Times Bestseller)

1. On Monicagate: "Elections decide policy; impeachments judge character." – p.12

2. On the differences between Nixon and Clinton: "Admittedly Nixon did not invoke his one privilege in an investigation 'about sex' he personally engaged in or pressed upon unwilling females. He raised it in an investigation about a third rate burglary he didn’t commit." – p.114

3. On Clinton's progressive nature: "Fortunately for his agents in the attack squad, Clinton rarely chose women like Hillary or Susan Thomases for his sexual conquests, so he didn't have to worry about alienating his feminist loyalists when the conquests later had to be smeared as trailer trash." – p. 77

4. On Monicagate: "If Clinton stays, we may as well change our national motto from 'In God We Trust' to the old Nike slogan: 'Just Do It!'" – p.22

5.  On keeping perspective: "If this country didn't have a stomach to stand up for principles, we'd be Canada by now. And anyway, this isn’t a revolution, so calm down."  – p. 10  

6. On Craig Livingston a Clinton-Gore man: "He was 'senior consultant for counter-events' – in his own words for the campaign. This entailed dressing up as Pinocchio and 'Chicken George' to disrupt Bush-Quayle events." – p. 145

7. On Craig Livingston (again): "Someone must have wanted him badly, because he beat out a better-qualified competitor. (Not that dressing up as a chicken wasn't apparently a strong qualification for the Clinton administration.)" – p. 145

8.  On her case against Clinton: "The founding fathers said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. This book isn't even asking for vigilance. It's just asking for people to give a damn." – p. 22

9. On the differences between Watergate and Monicagate: "To paraphrase the current 'just about sex' line, Watergate was about a two-bit breaking and entering. And unlike, with Monica Lewinsky, it wasn't committed by the president, or even people who worked at his White House, but by the people who worked for his campaign committee." – p. 10

10.  On Clinton's legacy: "When it is easy to imagine Larry Flynt watching television coverage of the president and wondering what the country has come to, the president has to go." – p. 19  

(2008 Update: Coulter was right. Most Democrats now concede that Bill Clinton is – and was always a rogue. Also, a flasher. Thanks to Coulter, he was impeached, and the stain really is on his history.)
 
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Book 2 (2002): Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right (The #1 New York Times Bestseller)

1. "Nothing would make liberal environmentalists so happy as an entire country that looked like the Hamptons: beautiful, rich people living in solar-powered homes staffed with a phalanx of obedient servants who can't afford SUVs." – p. 40

2. "The most fabulously wealthy senators are invariably Democrats. After the 2000 election, there were four senators worth $200 million or more – and all four were Democrats . . . Republican multimillionaires are . . . more likely to have earned their money than have married it." – p. 41
     
3. "Republicans may resent the fact that the unions give so much money to the Democrats, but they don't hate the worker. Who would be more likely to have a beer with a trucker: Tom Delay or Barbara Boxer?" – p.40

4. "Of his Buddhist temple fund-raiser, Gore said: 'I'll tell you what I learned from it, which is that we need campaign finance reform.' So, by virtue of breaking the law, he was in a better position to reform it?"  – p. 200

5. "To point out that Michael Moore is a college dropout is not to adopt the classism and snobbery of the left. A lot of people who went to Southwest Texas Junior College are shrewder than Yale students. But try flipping this scenario. Imagine a no-account college dropout attacking Al Gore's intelligence on national TV." – p.43

6. "Except for occasional exotic safaris to the Wal-Mart or forays into enemy territory at a Christian Coalition dinner, liberals do not know conservatives. It makes it easier to demonize them that way." – p. 261

7. "Predators are great fun for liberals. Criminals and poor people allow them to swell with a sense of their own incredible self-worth. That's the whole point of being a liberal: to feel superior to people with less money." – p.38

8. "Bush couldn't name three foreign leaders? Gore couldn't name his own positions?" – p.198

9. "Gore once claimed the biblical story of Cain and Abel was a parable about the dangers of pollution. Not original sin, not murder, not envy: pollution." – p.198

10.  "Just as some people once spat out the word 'Jew' as an insult (causing polite people to start using convoluted euphemisms like 'person of Hebrew faith'), 'religious right' has become a slur by usage."   – p.212 

(2008 Update: Gore is nuttier than ever, and calling women to commit acts of civil disobedience against coal plants. And, yes The New York Times – not Ann Coulter — is in quagmire. So, send your resumes to www.anncoulter.com. She pays minimum wage.)