Coulter: If McCain’s the nominee, I’ll campaign for Hillary
posted at 9:57 pm on January 31, 2008 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend |
printer-friendly
The ne plus ultra of conservatives crapping away Iraq in a fit of spite at Maverick: “I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism.” Madness.
Update: “The gulf between Hillary and McCain is Grand-Canyon like.”
You must be logged in to post a comment.

















Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages: « 1 2 3 [4] 5 »
Don’t kid yourself. We are at war and this election is about how it will be fought (or not).
bnelson44 on February 1, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Hmmm, we really want and need people to show up at the polls, not retreat in unbearable horror.
Her in a thong would sort of be like this.
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM
I know your questions are rhetorical, but I’ll answer them anyway.
Yes, Zell Miller retired, I believe in 2004 or in early 2005.
Lieberman went Independent when he lost his state nomination to Ted Lamont. How funny that Lamont won the nomination but Lieberman creamed him in the general election for senator. Ah yes, the power of the Daily Kos indeed.
Weebork on February 1, 2008 at 12:52 AM
April,
I saw your link and I am rather hesitant to click on the link in fear of seeing something that I don’t think my brain is ready to see.
:)
Weebork on February 1, 2008 at 12:54 AM
More like the anti-Rosie on the right.
Blonde vs. Brunette. Skinny vs. fat. Write books vs. writes barely literate haiku. Educated vs. um, knows a lot of show tunes. Thinks for herself vs. swallows 9-11 conspiracy theories whole.
And for those of you who are more … visual thinkers (bless your hearts), just close your eyes and imagine Ann in a thong. Then Rosie.
That oughta kill the “Rosie of the right” notion for good.
theregoestheneighborhood on February 1, 2008 at 12:54 AM
I don’t care who Ann Coulter supports, she’s just HOT…
Oh, and if Shamnesty McCain is the nominee, I just won’t vote. It’s ‘96 all over again. We’re left with a candidate who doesn’t stand a chance of winning. We’re staring right at another eight years of Clintons in the White House. We’ll see how much the voting morons think of Clinton when they reach the 50-55% tax bracket.
stacman on February 1, 2008 at 12:55 AM
I know he’s retired. My point was the Crat party left him and Lieberman, yet McCain is the maverick who we should accept.
No thanks.
91Veteran on February 1, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Spooking Republicans to vote for McCain because of the war is just scaremongering. Yawn.
There’s a reason he’s stuck at about a 30-40% Primary vote ceiling: He sucks.
Get a new boy or the Republican Party is finished. Period.
Anything else, as the man said, would just be commentary..
TexasJew on February 1, 2008 at 12:59 AM
WRT to McCain - Fool me once, shame on you; fool me for 20 years…
…
linlithgow on February 1, 2008 at 1:03 AM
theregoesthe
I don’t think that is a fair comparison. There is no way you can compare the likes of Ann Coulter to a man!
:)
Weebork on February 1, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Believe me, for the Pres. no matter who that is, the WOT is long term.
Liberal Pres. candidates promising to immediately bring home the troops is a bucket load of crap, four years minimum.
Amnesty can happen at the stroke of a pen.
Speakup on February 1, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Click - it’s all good. :)
I’m sorry but the vision of Ann Coulter in a bathing suit, let alone a thong, is scary. Her physical makeup remains me of the skinny guy on the beach towel who gets sand kicked into his face by the bully.
I really question the men who find her attractive, she is built like a dude.
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 1:15 AM
Very well said. (I edited it just so I could enjoy its crystalline clarity a couple of extra times before reposting it.)
RushBaby on February 1, 2008 at 1:15 AM
Dude…do you like and date real woman?
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 1:16 AM
No to Amnesty.
No to McCain.
Huckabee go.
Nite.
profitsbeard on February 1, 2008 at 1:17 AM
If we have to turn left to win, then we have not won anything.
I fail to see how letting the RINOs have their way election after election is a positive thing. They trotted out the same tripe in the ‘06 elections, “well you don’t want the Democrats to win, do you?” So the RNC supports RINOs while truning their backs on conservatives…
BS.
If you people keep going along with these morons just because the have an (R) next to their name, you’re just hastening the demise of the GOP.
Ya, rally around McCain like good little morons.
reaganaut on February 1, 2008 at 1:19 AM
April
Well, before the pictures loaded I saw the “Olive” name and figured it out pretty quick. I see what you’re saying, and Coulter is quite a skinny lady, but I don’t think she’s THAT bad. She’s an attractive woman but I do not subscribe to her being “hot”. Also, I think she is intellectually stimulating more than physically.
Still, point taken.
Weebork on February 1, 2008 at 1:22 AM
In NY she gets heavy cruising from the TV Repairmen if you follow me….then they realize who it is.
I’m a tranny chaser
Manly made up faces
With your corsets laced up
Set my heart to racing
Skirt as big as a postage stamp
Package tantalizing just
Below the hem
Tell me how do you spell camp
D-R-A-G-Q-U-E-E-N
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 1:22 AM
McShamnesty is the worst: using his hero status to cover up unparallel duplicity. Denying that Amnesty is Amnesty. Denying that he is lying when he is caught in a lie. What a scumbag!
Igor R. on February 1, 2008 at 1:23 AM
wow… Colmes actually made me chuckle a little.
Granted, it was more like gargling my own bile, since it was, you know, Alan Colmes.
He must have rented an actual personality just for this show.
Knuckledragger on February 1, 2008 at 1:23 AM
The maw of hell has opened and looks as if it’s going to spew upon you supposed conservatives the candidate that represents Republican Party has been slouching towards since Bush I, and you just can’t handle it! This is the funniest thing I have ever seen. You guys really oughta learn to love the bomb.
Dig Dr. McStrangelove — he’s your man. Real conservatives were predicting this 18 years ago.
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 1:25 AM
Ann’s concluding comment - somewhat clipped from the above clip - was spot on: that those Republicans endorsing McCain, with the exception of Nancy Reagan, are fishing for jobs in a McCain cabinet.
Alan was good, but I wonder why he thought Ann wants a job in Hilary’s.
infidelpride on February 1, 2008 at 1:48 AM
I love Ann-she knows that this will drive Clinton Inc crazy.
And it makes the obvious point: McCain is not a Conservative, and he needs to go away.
Doug on February 1, 2008 at 1:50 AM
Man, some of you guys don’t think Ann is hot. I think she’s hotter than a barbeque on the sun in august. You’ve been in jail too long. Love the black thong.
Bikerken on February 1, 2008 at 1:53 AM
reaganaut, leave the “Political Strategery” to the Professionals.
Chakra Hammer on February 1, 2008 at 2:02 AM
You confuse yourself with Choosen One who confuses himself for substance.
geckomon on February 1, 2008 at 2:05 AM
No actually - you’ve been in jail for too long…
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 2:05 AM
Hmmmm…”The maw of hell has opened and looks as if it’s going to spew upon you supposed conservatives the candidate that represents Republican Party has been slouching towards since Bush I, and you just can’t handle it! This is the funniest thing I have ever seen. You guys really oughta learn to love the bomb.
Dig Dr. McStrangelove — he’s your man. Real conservatives were predicting this 18 years ago.
Drum on February 1, 2008 at 1:25 AM”
I think that I generally agree with you, but can’t quite precisely figure out what the hell you are talking about. It’s like a Rorschach test of a comment. And what’s with the “18 year ago” comment? That was 1990 - was that the preparation for Desert Storm I, or when Bush I threw up at that state dinner? That last incident must have made a lot of “real conservatives” clairvoyant, if what you said is true.
If it’s that Bush I was kind of a RINO, then I have to agree, but what is a “supposed conservative”? And what’s with the non sequitor Dr. Strangelove reference? Have you ever diagrammed a sentence in high school?
Bush II has certainly opened up the maw of hell for conservatives with his “compassionate conservative” nonsense, along with all that wincing “reach across the aisle” malarky. Weak and pathetic, IMHO. No wonder he came in with both houses of Congress being Republican and now he is stuck washing Nancy Pelosi’s limo. Meanwhile, we are presently enjoying McCain, a dishonest and unlikeable putz that Bush could have easily swatted away years ago, setting us up for a tsunami.
I suppose, however, that loving McCain IS like loving the bomb. A big 100-megaton crap bomb.
TexasJew on February 1, 2008 at 2:06 AM
I find it funny that females, whom always complain about what the standards are for “beautiful” in todays American culture, are the first ones to rag on Anne Coulter about her looks. “She is built like a man” “She has no a$$ / boobs / hips” etc. etc.
I do not find super thin females attractive, and blond is the least attractive hair color, but Anne is regardless. Most males find her attractive due to her mind / sassy attitude / etc. not because of her body. Yet that seems to upset other females more than anything else.
Back on topic: Me and Anne are on the same page. If McCain is the nominee I will be done with the GOP and will work for the defeat of McCain in the general election.
Voidseeker on February 1, 2008 at 2:25 AM
I just read the following on DU while looking for A good laugh.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 1, 2008 at 3:26 AM
Ann Coulter is commenting on a great number of topics, and too many here are missing the point. John McCain may be a war hero. He’s not a Conservative.
Snake307 on February 1, 2008 at 3:32 AM
McCain = Democrat/Left
Hillary = Communist/Far Left
I think when some people get so far right that they lose thier depth perception.
Ann I’ve backed you on everything, but Allah is right when he calls this madness.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 1, 2008 at 3:37 AM
I frankly can’t blame Ann. mccain is really a wet noodle in the wind. Who knows what this guy will truly do with how he’s handled himself and his votes and who he reaches across the aisle with is no coincidence in trying to pass his liberal laws. I’m reminded that one is who they keep around them and it seems to me, his friends are a bit too liberal for my liking. Just because he has an R after his name, doesn’t mean he’s an automatic vote for me. I don’t bow to an R.
I won’t forget shamnesty and what he has said to us before and after it failed. I won’t forget mccain feingold. Damaging. Gang of 14, UGH! I don’t trust this guy to put in conservative judges so I can’t even vote on that basis because he’s nothing but a backscratcher of who scratches his back the most. No thanks…I hope the republican party is getting this loud and clear….he isn’t republican.
Highrise on February 1, 2008 at 3:41 AM
Don’t go jumping to conclusions now as she just might be. Not sayin’t for sure that she would be, but if I was one of them thar Islamos I would not want to be crossin’ some Hildabeast.
Not only that but Strawberries McVano has a way too Iraqi-centric - If the United States does not keep sufficient troop mass in Iraq, the orbital stability of the Earth will become unbalanced and all Muslim terrorists will slide into America - view of the universe.
MB4 on February 1, 2008 at 4:09 AM
Weve only just begun to fight
White hot Ann Coulter and promises
Kick McCain’ asno for luck and were on our way
Weve only just begun
MB4 on February 1, 2008 at 4:19 AM
Ok, so you like this blog? Would you think that this blog, in its commentary specifying candidates is legal?
In 2005 McCain sued the FEC to force all internet communication to fall under CFR. He tried to make sure that all internet communication had a donation dollar amount attached to it, and was limited and regulated, basically trying to silence the blogosphere (at least within 30 days of an election).
But hey, this blog doesn’t cost that much, right?
Depends on how it’s calculated.
If you (as a company) donate 10 hours of a secretary’s time $8/hr, and $40 in postage for mailers, and the candidate gets $100,000 in donations from that; you aren’t donating $120, you’re on the books for donating the $100,000 the way the FEC works.
So, how much gain does a candidate potentially get/lose for Instapundit or Allah Praising or trashing him? It had better not clear $2300/year or McCain wanted them to pay fines or be arrested.
But hey, you don’t care. They aren’t silencing you, right? I mean, screw constitutional rights, freedom of speech, and all that. We’ve got to elect a guy with that (R) after his name… who cares what he believes.
And you trust him on judges? Well he’s claimed he doesn’t want judges “reinterpreting the Constitution” but does he mean reinterpreting what the Constitution really says, or what he seems to think it says?
gekkobear on February 1, 2008 at 4:39 AM
silverfox on February 1, 2008 at 5:21 AM
Priceless.
And she’s right, too.
There is precious little difference between Hillary & McCain, except that McCain is less honest and less intelligent.
Also, both Hillary and McCain would screw up the country, but at least Hillary’s mistakes would be clearly attributable to Democratic Liberal politics (facilitating the rise of the next conservative Republican administrations).
Finally, 4 years of Hillary would be what the Republicans DESERVE after allowing a dolt like McCain to get the nomination.
Liberal appeasement is a virus within the GOP - perhaps it needs a Hillary term to bring the poison out. It would allow fingers to be pointed and blame to be cast (e.g. why do some caucii allow non-Republicans to pick GOP nominees, why didn’t Fred campaign with more vigour and why didn’t Huckabee drop out BEFORE Super Tuesday and why were some Evangelicals and Veterans so damn dumb in their choice of candidate?)
uptight on February 1, 2008 at 5:26 AM
The question you have to ask is “What will hurt our country more? Hillary for four years or McCain for eight?”
calirighty on February 1, 2008 at 5:40 AM
Ahh, my hometown gal, Ann Coulter. I’ve read…and loved…every one of her books and display them proudly.
But alas, she’s wrong.
Thinkg, I hope, will turn around once both parties have the nominees. We really need to start going after each other. And, in the likely case of McCain v Hillary, I hope and pray my fellow GOP comrads will rally behind OUR guy, and the the domestic political enemy.
JetBoy on February 1, 2008 at 6:02 AM
i can’t believe people really think that billary is better then mccain?!
sko17 on February 1, 2008 at 6:13 AM
It would look like Denzel Washington debating Mickey Rooney up there. McCain has no chance in the General. I normally wouldn’t pass up a chance to vote against Hillary, but I cannot stomache voting for McShameless. If I thought he had a chance it would be the lesser of two evils, but he will get punked by the MSM so bad he will become another sad national joke.
Dork B. on February 1, 2008 at 6:19 AM
I said it on hearre before and I’ll say it again, a mccain-crist or mccain-grahm ticket would be more liberal then a hilary-dem hawk. If she were to pick someone like nunn, leiberman or maybe even bayh I would vote for them over mccain. People need to realize that if mccain is the nominee the dems and msm will attack him so ruthlessly and brutally that even if he manages to win, at his age he will be damaged and the vp may be pres before the 4 years is out. mccains behavior in vietnam is his entire existance and who he is and the dems and msm will be attacking that from the go. There is already rumors of supposed veterans ready to attack his story. With his temperment he may have a stroke before it’s all over. The leftists and their propaganda wing the msm don’t do anything halfway and mccain will see his lifelong buddies among the demofascists on tv every week saying horrible things about him.
peacenprosperity on February 1, 2008 at 6:28 AM
She will vote for Hillary over McCain because she is a racist bigot just like me.
Bicyea on February 1, 2008 at 6:36 AM
This is a farce, meant to drum up the base to get them to vote for Romney. She makes great points though. And she is NOT in the least bit hot.
RWLA on February 1, 2008 at 7:09 AM
I am going to repeat my post of 10:13 PM last night because no one argued with the substance of it, jsut that I had made these points before. Well, the points are worth repeating given the idiotic anti-McCain diatribe being stated on this site. So here goes:
Ann Coulter has totally lost it. She should henceforth be laughed at as a complete nitwit. I mean it.
Hillary Clinton is anti-military socialist, who will increase government spending, accept defeat in Iraq, pursue appeasement policies in foreign affairs, seek outright amnesty in immigration, and nominate left wing judges to the federal bench. So that is someone whom Ann Coulter supports? Perhaps it is latent sisterly love.
John McCain is a pro-life conservative who served his country as a Navy combat aviator and P.O.W., who will cut Government spending, who has been right all along on Iraq and will insist on victory in Iraq, who will be a hawk in foreign policy, who will cut the corproate tax rate to spur business, who accepts the judgment of the majority of American people that law enforcement in immigration must come first and who pledged to the Federalist Society in Jnuary 2007 and thereafter that he will nominate strict constructionists to the U.S. Supreme Court. And that is someone whom Ann Coulter cannot support?
My older son is a U.S. Army First Lieutenant (with Ranger tab) who until last October served as an infantry platoon leader in Iraq; for his service, he earned a Bronze Star and an Army Commendation Medal for Valor for actions under fire. My younger son will be commissioned a U.S. Marines Second Lieutenant in May having already passed officer training at Quantico. I cannot help but note and appreciate that John McCain’s sons are continuing his family tradition of military service to the nation. John McCain is the son and grandson of U.S. Navy Admirals. One of John McCain’s sons is a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marines serving in Iraq; the other is attending the U.S. Naval Academy. John McCain speaks often of service to the nation, and he is by far the most qualified person to be the next Commander in Chief. And that, again, is someone whom Ann Coulter cannot support?
Who has Ann Coulter endorsed? Romney, who does not have a clue as to military matters and foreign policy and who when it was convenient for him to be pro-choice and pro-gay rights when running for Governor of Massachusetts, was stridently pro-choice and pro-gay rights. Sounds like an Ann Coulter candidate to me. Also, Romney’s sons are working in Romney’s campaign, and Romney said that they are serving America by doing so. That smacks of an attitude of “it’s all about me.” It is of course an attitude that Coulter understands.
Phil Byler on February 1, 2008 at 7:15 AM
If you haven’t, please read Ann’s perspective at her website which is a bit more coherent. It’s not just the presidency we have to think about, but the relationship between Congress and the President.
If we don’t have Romney (God forbid) than we have to think of the future.
www.anncoulter.com
ctmom on February 1, 2008 at 7:30 AM
Jeez, I love this woman’s courage. If weren’t already married… and few inches taller…
Gartrip on February 1, 2008 at 7:50 AM
Phil Byler on February 1, 2008 at 7:15 AM
I read your arguments, but ignored them. Fortunately, you get to vote for McCain! No one will stop you! If you live in NC and need a ride, I’ll even take you to the polls! But I will be leaving the ballot blank under category President. He won’t get my vote because for over a decade he’s been flipping me the finger. I now have the chance to flip it back at him. So I will.
Gartrip on February 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM
It scares me that Ann makes a smidjen of sense in what said.
Who is the “lesser of two evils” between McCain and Hillary?
That’s why I’ll be voting Constitution Party this year. That way I don’t have to take the credit for screwing up the country.
Pcoop on February 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Ann won’t really campaign or vote for Hillary - She’s a great political humorist and yes, SHE’S HOT !!!
LODGE4 on February 1, 2008 at 7:59 AM
Got to say, it was funny watching Alan in that video. Made me laugh.
Pcoop on February 1, 2008 at 8:06 AM
Ann is more than right in her analysis of McCain, but at the same time, I shall not and will not cast my vote towards another era of The Clintons. Two terms of the two of them was more than enough. If McCain and Clinton are the only two choices we have this time around, my choice is to turn my back on both of them.
pilamaye on February 1, 2008 at 8:09 AM
All of this crap that McCain has been dishing out has allowed me to re-evaluate Huckabee. Granted, Mitt’s my man, but I don’t have seizures like the rest of you do at the prospect of a Huck presidency.
It seems like Huckabee never really thought he’d make it this far, so he’s been caught off guard and and had to “wing it” in his answers. I do not think Huck would be as hostile to conservatives as McCain would.
And Huck’s immigration proposal is better than the “I’ve never changed my position…” bull from Juan McAmnesty.
Still… as long as Mitt’s in the race, I’m pulling for him!
HYTEAndy on February 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Senator McCain is not going to win a general election for POTUS. If he wins the nomination I will probably still vote for him, as I did for Dole and Ford, and the results will be the same. The choices we are being given in both parties are so stinking, so poor, that it’s really hard to believe that this country will be able to remain the leader of the free world. The vast financial assets we have will not do it alone. A leadership with morality and fearlessness is required, and that is not what I am seeing from this bunch of yahoos.
fgmorley on February 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Geez, choosing between Hillary and McCain is like picking your favorite Menendez brother.
silenced majority on February 1, 2008 at 8:44 AM
I am unashamed in my love for Ann, and of all the supposed “outrageous” things she has said, this is the first time I disagree with her. I would like to imagine her simply not voting for either McCain OR Hillary, but I can respect her dislike of him being strong enough to cast a vote against him.
I have said here before that I wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to vote against Hillary, whoever we run against her. But I don’t think I could do that if it meant pulling the lever for John McCain. I may change my mind on this because of the Universal Health care she has planned, or because of McCain’s views on limiting spending.
But at the moment I can’t see him beating her or Obama anyway and I really do not want to vote for him simply as the lesser of two evils. I could more easily hold my nose and vote for Huck (who also couldn’t beat either candidate in my opinion) - but McCain? He’s an ass and has stuck it to us too many times. I would rather not vote for anyone.
Dork B. on February 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM
I’ll repeat my comment at Ace’s:
Let’s assume for a moment that McCain gets the nomination (and it is looking that way) I’m curious to what many of you will do? Will you start to look at all the things McCain has done right?
Peggy Noonan spells out why McCain is winning:
If you go by the Florida returns, maybe this year positions aren’t everything. Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the one who suffered 5½ years in the Hanoi Hilton. Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the one who has endured a lifetime in the rounds in Washington and survived as antispending, antiabortion and pro-military. Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the old fighter jock who’ll keep the country safe in a rocky time ahead. And maybe Republicans on the ground are saying: He earned it.
Victor Davis Hanson tells us why bashing McCain is not such a good idea.
Sooner or later everyone here will have to accept McCain as the Republican nominee.
You can refuse to vote at all, that is your right.
But I was willing to vote for a pro-abortion Rudy if he got the nomination, something I never in a million years imagined I would do. It goes against just about everything I believe. But I understood one thing. Being stubborn in the face of such danger to our country with a Hillary presidency is just wrong. More wrong than voting for a pro-abortion candidate.
You weigh the right and wrong of it for yourself.
Rightwingsparkle on February 1, 2008 at 9:06 AM
This is absurd. . . the Democrat candidates are playing nice among themselves and simply letting the idiotic Republicans/conservatives destroy themselves. Go ahead people, cut off your noses to spite your faces.
rplat on February 1, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Sorry, no can do. I will write in Fred. I will NOT vote for McDole. NEVER!
stenwin77 on February 1, 2008 at 9:10 AM
I’ve always said I’d sit it out if McCain ws the nominee. I will now reconsider based on Ann’s comments.
tgillian on February 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM
I wonder just how we should define John McCain’s being the person we need on the war. I think the following defines McCain as no better, and maybe even worse than Hillary.
“The weight of evidence has got to be that we’ve got to adjudicate these people’s cases, and . . . if it means releasing some of them, you’ll have to release them. Look, even Adolf Eichmann got a trial.” (Can we put a lid on the Nazi analogies already? Crikey. A Knight-Ridder reporter was too smitten to be bothered by his Eichmann-invoking hyperbole: “McCain is emerging as a voice of conscience and nuance on the stay-or-go Guantanamo issue.” Nuance?)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Debunking%20Another%20Gitmo%20Myth%20for.htm
Thanks Michelle, some of us know who is really hot (wink).
Yep, 2005 and there’s old Maverick himself spouting the leftist line that terrorists need to have criminal trials right here in the USA and ignoring the fact that everyone in Gitmo has had a hearing before a military tribunal.
Yeah, McCain, Hillary, Obama and bin Laden all want to see years of show trials where the terrorist gets to yell “death to America” a hundred times a day. My old Dad used to tell me how in WWII all those Japanese and German POWs each got their own separate trail here in the USA and the soldiers that captured them all got shipped home to testify again them. Oh wait, that never happened, wonder how we ever won that war? McCain is a leftist stooge, a useful idiot, a full fledged code pinko numbnuts pretending to be the god of war for you democracy spreading neo cons.
Then there’s waterboarding. Personally if I was President and I believed that a terrorist had information that would mean life or death to Americans I’d waterboard the SOB myself. How would our Presidential candidates stand muster. I’m not sure about Romney, he wouldn’t do it himself but would be cool with it if he didn’t really know. Huckabee, nope, a prayer meeting. Paul would apologize for upsetting Islam’s conquest of the world and surrender. McCain…..
“Anyone who knows what waterboarding is could not be unsure. It is a horrible torture technique used by Pol Pot and being used on Buddhist monks as we speak,” said McCain after a campaign stop at Dordt College here.
Hmmm, guess who always equates what we do with horrible tyrants and mass killers? Would that be the far left wing of the Democratic Party? Yep, and ol John McCain of course.
It takes a seriously brain dead lemming to follow McCain over the cliff and not notice his far left viewpoints
Buzzy on February 1, 2008 at 9:18 AM
McCain represents at the very best a Faustian bargain. We trade our principles for power. Problem is, we won’t get the power and even if we did it would simply not be worth it.
I will not vote if McCain is the nominee. I didn’t think it possible, but McCain will make Jorge Bush look like a silver tongued devil. McCain is just plain stooopid. If he had any brains, he’d be a Dhimmicrat. But he’s too stooopid to realize he doesn’t belong in the party of Reagan.
His self righteousness is offensive in the extreme. I will not vote for Hillary, but I will not vote.
Go Mitt!! (and get that clip of Obama praising McCain at the debate and run it on every station in America!)
Charles Martel on February 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Please do, Ann. It will only help McCain.
Potfry on February 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Phil, I’m going to take this point by point to show that people did read it:
Really? Gosh, no one’s reminded me of that for at least 12 seconds.
Really? Who’s going to be paying for the services for the 12 millions new “residents”?
Ok, I’ll give him foreign policy hawkishness. No one’s ever questioned that ONE position from him.
I believe the quote I’m thinking of from McCain himself goes something like “There’s a lot of greedy people that need to be punished”. Oh, AND he’s got Greenspan’s book, so makes me feel warm and fuzzy on his economic policy.
You mean those ignorant racist nativists? You really think he’ll honor his 2.5 day commitment to slowing illegal immigration?
Gang of 14 ring a bell?
I’m sick and tired of hearing “it’s his turn”. I’m not comfortable with anyone who spent the last 10+ years trying for the big chair.
darury on February 1, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Maybe Mav will appoint her Ambassador to Iceland. Out of sight out of mind.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I’ve always said I’d sit it out if McCain ws the nominee. I will now reconsider based on Ann’s comments.
tgillian on February 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Thanks ann, one more for Mav.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM
I’ve been more disgusted with conservatives in the last few days than I’ve been in a looooooooong time.
If I can get vicious for a moment, it’s too late for Romney. And I would blame all of the conservatives ranting at the fact that McCain is the presumptive nominee for causing this predicament. Because it’s really all your fault. How many times have I heard or read in the past couple days about “oh, man, I wish Rudy had done better, to knock off McCain”.
Well, you didn’t want Rudy. Because he wasn’t “conservative” enough for you.
And to be honest, you guys were late to the party to support Romney, because you didn’t think HE was entirely conservative enough either.
So now it’s too late. McCain, on the strength of the independents and moderates alone, has come along and basically swept up the nomination, even though months back it looked as if his campaign was dead, and I personally thought he had long ago cut his own throat with his stance on immigration and would never get the nomination.
You waited too late. You waited until the last moment, saw what was happening, and out of desperation decided to FINALLY throw your support behind Romney, but it’s just not good enough at this point.
I don’t like that it’s looking like McCain is going to be the nominee, but my issue this year (and every year, really, since 9/11), is the war on terror (and I suppose you could lump in the war in Iraq, national security, and U.s. foreign policy together into one big behemoth issue, because my central theme / position on all of those topics pretty much amounts to the same thing). And between McCain, Hillary, and Obama, McCain’s the only one I have any sort of faith in to do what I feel is necessary. I have more faith in Hillary on that subject than Obama, who’s done nothing but take on foreign policy advisers who are anti-Israel (if not outright anti-semitic - but he’s got some of THOSE people on staff too), and Arab / Mohammaden sympathizers / cheerleaders, and also make intimations that if elected he’d do nothing but practice the same process of diplomatic appeasement that was disastrous for our interests abroad, in the Middle East particularly, during the Clinton administration.
Saying that, though, you’d think that would give me reason to pause and be horrified at the thought of how a Hillary adminstration would handle the same situation, and I do. But my gut feeling, perhaps a foolish belief I realize, is that Hillary might actually at least do a half-assed job of prosecuting the war on terror, and frankly, I’d take a half-assed job of things than Obama’s do-nothing-but-kiss-our-enemies-ass plan. That didn’t work out too well for Chamberlain, it won’t work for him.
So I’ll begrudgingly support McCain. And I’ll damn any conservative who is so short-sighted and childishly spiteful enough to deliberately tank this election for him.
Vyce on February 1, 2008 at 10:09 AM
When I saw this last night, I knew it would be front page on Hot Air, but I didn’t expect so see over 350 comments when I got in to work.
First, I think Ann was just being shocking,as she always is, to make a point.
Second, to the extent that there is merit in her argument, it is based on Hillary’s complete lack of character and principle. In other words, she is not working from any set of core beliefs…she is an ulimate pragmatist and will do whatever is necessary in the circumstances. Given that, perhaps she would be better than McCain in many ways (but not on Supreme Court nominees).
Finally, the segment was hilarious. I really thought Colmes played it perfectly, playing off both Ann and Sean. Even Sean thought it was great.
It was gold. All credit to Colmes and Coulter for letting me go to bed laughing.
Blaise on February 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM
I have put much thought into this and I believe that if McCain is the nominee against Hillary, all Republicans and Independents should vote for Hillary. I am 100% with Ann on this one.
Here’s my case. Its very similar to the problem solving senario that you get when you take an ethics course: There are two mountain climbers (Climber A and Climber B). Climber A slips and is about to fall off the edge. Mid-fall the Climber B reaches out and grabs Climber A’s hand just a split second before Climber A falls to his death. Now here is the problem. After holding on for a few seconds Climber B realizes that if he continues to hold on both of them will inevitably fall to their death. He has a choice. He can let go and save himself or he can continue to hold on resulting in two dead climbers. Either way Climber A is going to die. Only one option actually saves a life. The logical choice is to let go and save one of the two lives.
Now keep that senario in mind. Ever since the first Bush presidency there has been a slow creep towards the liberal idiology within the Republican party. The entire party has been sliding leftward for some time now. The same people who have caused the leftward slide are the same people John McCain is going to be running the show with. Everybody he is surrounding himself with has played an instrumental role in pushing our party leftward and has created the mess we are in today, staring down the barrel of a Hillary Clinton rifle. They have aligned us perfectly in the Clinton crosshairs. At this point one thing is obvious. If John McCain is our nominee, he is going to get killed by the Democrat nominee, no matter who ends up at the top of the Dem ticket. No matter what we do, the Republicans are going to fall to their death come election day. John McCain, George W Bush and the rest of the lefty Republicans have paved the way for these circumstances. Our fate is now inevitable. Now our choice is this. We can throw our support behind John McCain and send a message that we are OK with the Republican party standing for open borders, global warming carbon taxes, higher taxes in general, bigger government, restrictions on free speech, the fairness doctrine, rich people should be “punished”, etc. But please understand, if we do that we are only sacraficing ourselves in order to attempt to save a life that is going to die anyways. Our other option is to make it clear to the Republican party that we are not ok with open borders. We are not ok with global warming taxes. We are not ok with higher taxes at all. We are not ok with bigger government. We are not ok with any violations of the 1st amendment. We are not ok with the fairness doctrine. And we don’t think people should be “punished” for haveing been successful. In other words, the best result this election can produce for us is a complete and total decimation the likes of which we have never seen before. We have to completely let go now so we can live to fight another day. We need to incite a complete and total house cleaning. We need to prove to John McCain, Arnold Swartzenagger, Linsay Graham, Lincoln Chaffee, et al that we are done allowing them to shove their liberal garbage down our throats. We need to accept the fact that they are already dead to us. The only way to do that is to let go. Hillary/Obama ‘08
Zetterson on February 1, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Annie’s going to cost herself an invite to the inaugural ball, here. She’ll be home, all alone that night.
Think I’ll give her a call…
Jaibones on February 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM
I completely agree, Zet. The Leftward incrementalism in the Republican party must stop.
tickleddragon on February 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I don’t know why poeple won’t blast McVain’s character. I will. McCain is a piece of garbage in every way shape and form. There is no bright side to him. Once a scumbag always a scumbag. Yes this is a personal attack, a political attack and any other attack you can think of. You can’t trust ANYTHING he says. Being in that POW camp ruined him. He was a hero, now he is a waste of air.
HotAirExpert on February 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Another fine point about ol’ Juan McCain…
eanax on February 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM
I really, really don’t like McCain, but there is something you are overlooking about Hillary. While McCain is a liberal dolt, Hillary is someone that is willing to use power in a callous and calculating manner to take revenge on enemies and to casually imprison those who have never done anything but be in the way of what she wants. Think back on all the Clinton enemies that were audited, or worse even the White House Travel Office staff she attempted to have JAILED on trumped up charges because she wanted to replace them with her own friends.
Sorry, while I could never support McCain, Hillary is just too evil and too willing to abuse power to ever be allowed back in the White House. So if my choise on election day is Hillary or McCain I am going to have to vote McCain. While he most likely will cause all kinds of damage to the country he is not nearly as evil as Hillary. As for damage to the Rebpublican Party, I have given up on them as lost years ago.
Buford on February 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Instead of voting for Hillary or McMexico… I’m going to write in Ann Coulter’s name. It can’t hurt.
Gartrip on February 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Except that the article linked to doesn’t go into detail on what elements of their policies are a gulf apart.
Yeah, there are issues where Clinton and McCain are opposed. However, still, a number of evaluations posted here and there reflect that 90+% of McCains policies are pretty much identical in objective to Clintons. They may disagree heartily on how to reach those objectives, but that is kind of beside the point if the objectives are so very similar.
Interesting Note:
As reported over the past weeks a lot of Iindependents are registering Republican in order to vote for McCain, and the reregistering as Independents. It begs the question whether these same Independents are registering Democrat in order to also vote in the Democrat primaries.
Kind of an interesting way to stack the deck is to get both parties to choose candidates that agree with your positions, so that in the end it doesn’t matter which candidate wins.
Lawrence on February 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Just a note, if Hillary doesn’t get the Democrat’s Nomination I am writing in “Noneof Theabove.” Otherwise I am voting for whoever is running against Hillary.
It is a real shame that the best this country can come up with is this sorry group of canidates.
Buford on February 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM
“An election between Hillary and John McCain will be the most boring election ever. They agree on everything.”
-Bill Clinton
Zetterson on February 1, 2008 at 11:18 AM
1.)One can’t predict an election 11 months out. Currently the polls favor McCain, not that they are meaningful.
2.)Given your mountain climbing analogy, you might think through the dilemma posed by the story in “Touching the Void” about two climbers in the Peruvian Andes. It’s a riveting story if nothing else.
3.)McCain’s defeat in November doesn’t set the Republicans on a path to recapture the White House any more than Carter’s defeat to Reagan led to a Renaissance for the left wing of the Democratic party.
4.)Reagan’s record with his Supreme Court choices, his tax increases, and inability to reduce the size of government might not withstand the scrutiny of someone like Coulter if the record belonged to someone not named Reagan.
5.)If you want to pin the decline of conservatives on Bush 41, your call. I’d take him over Dukakis or either Clinton.
dedalus on February 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I agree, I’m just so torn about the justices…and what if they actually pass the Fairness Doctrine and shut us up? How many of us are as articulate as Ezra Levant? And how come so few people know who he is?
JustTruth101 on February 1, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Ann Coulter always talks about the imporatance of the big brain and high IQ: Clearly she has neither one.
All you folks should understand that for the conservative pundits in TV, the internet, radio and authors, this is all about money: keeping up their ratings and sales by bashing someone that they think their audience likes to see bashed.
That is how these folks make money, not that there is anything wrong with that
georgealbert on February 1, 2008 at 11:32 AM
The best line I have read thus far, from Thomas Sowell:
That sums up ol’ Maverick in a nutshell. People can believe he supports the military all they want, but when he is for leaving the back door of the house open, while putting the fighters at the front door… that’s not real support in my opinion. McVain’s stance on the war on terror, or his support of the military, and his amnesty stance is like a mayor who has the fire department and the police department defending city hall, while he’s selling their home from under them. Sneaky McVain…yes, that’s Sneaky McVain.
TOPV on February 1, 2008 at 11:52 AM
*yawn*
crosspatch on February 1, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Yes I know but my point is that McCain is, without question, going to lose the general election NO MATTER WHAT. He is nothing more then the climber we caught and are having trouble letting go of. He can take us with him or we can remove ourselves from the inevitable death. Lets allow the Limbaughs, Hannitys, Malkins, Coulters and other true Conservatives to live by letting McCain die. Its the only way. We either allow him to take us with him or we let him go. That is why we must vote Clinton/Obama in ‘08
Zetterson on February 1, 2008 at 12:02 PM
I’m a conservative, not a Republican. I’ll vote for a conservative candidate when presented with one; I will not vote for a candidate simply because the Republican machine assures me that it is his turn, he’s next in line. Voting for the lesser of two evils will signal nothing to the Republican party apparatus. The Republican candidate has to earn my vote.
Anyone who thinks that the Hildebeast is going to run away from Iraq is not thinking this out rationally. Clinton is not about to allow the fall of Saigon happen on her watch. She’ll remove some troops from Iraq so that she’ll be able to say she began the process but she won’t accede to losing a war that we are winning. The morning after the election in November, the Clinton campaign will be gearing up for getting her a second term. We are relatively safe until then.
thegreatbeast on February 1, 2008 at 12:08 PM
mccain counts warren rudman as one of his closest freinds and advisors.
rudman gave America david souter.
Any more questions?
peacenprosperity on February 1, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Senator Reacharound don’t need no stinkin’ aisle!
saint kansas on February 1, 2008 at 12:11 PM
If you have a crystal ball that foretells election winners you should bet it on InTrade. If your Crystal ball works on security prices you can acquire Soros-level wealth in a few days and fund candidates of your choosing.
Some times the mountain climber lives. The problem is, you just don’t always know.
If you think that Rush or Hannity could get a majority of the country to vote for them, I doubt they could get even a majority of Republicans. Coulter even less-so. Newt, who has more credibility, looked at running but backed away.
dedalus on February 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Hmmm, for me I just can’t fathom any man finding someone built like a Dude and processing the whine (mating call), mind, personality and attitude of a Harpie attractive.
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Hmmm, she is really not that intellectually stimulating other than her usual mantra about hating liberals, liberals suck etc - what’s in her books.
I saw her on RED EYE with Greg and she sucked, bigtime. There was nothing stimulationg about her at all, and she disappeared after the first half hour, although Greg was advertising having her for the full hour all of that week.
I really expected more from her and I think he may have as well.
AprilOrit on February 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Comment pages: « 1 2 3 [4] 5 »