I like Cramer because he preaches fundamentals every time I've seen him.  Also, he does encourage long term investing and doing lots of research.  With that being said, I also monitor his buy/sell suggestions and do considerable research on his picks.  I can't remember what stock he recently told his viewers to hold, and how it would be idiotic to sell, and then the stock fell like a brick.

In my case i took masive hit with SQM and CAT stocks when they were in the upward cycle and Cramer called buy on them.....me being a newcomer didnt know much i jumped on them. I should have sold them when i had the chance.