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<p>Told you she was a Democrat. ;)</p>
<p>I have to agree with Ann on this one.</p>
<p>Ugh…poor Hillary.</p>
<p>Wow. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. Is it CGI?</p>
<p>Is it just me, or does Ann Coulter become more ghoul-like every year? (shudders)</p>
<p>In case people didn’t click on the link, the rest of the story is: “Last night on “Hannity & Colmes,” Ann Coulter made a striking announcement: she’ll campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican nominee. Earlier this week, the New York Observer’s Jennifer Rubin reported that members of the conservative punditry were “beside themselves” over the thought of a McCain nomination…”</p>
<p>Hillary wont allow Ann to be anywhere within a thousand miles of her.</p>
<p>The blogs have been going wild over her statement. Some a blaming Hillary for making a deal with the neo-cons.</p>
<p>She has always been a Democratic agent provocateur, so this is well in line with her previous behavior.</p>
<p>(from Editor & Publisher)</p>
<p>NEW YORK We know the far right is upset with John McCain as nominee but this is really going pretty far: Ann Coulter on Fox News asserting that if he gets the GOP nomination she would not only “vote for” Hillary, she would “campaign for her if it’s McCain.” </p>
<p>She said on Hannity & Colmes last night that Clinton “is more conservative than he is” and adds that in that scenario “she will be our girl.” As president she would be “stronger in the war on terrorism” and would not pull the troops out of Iraq, pointing out that she jumped to her feet at the State of Union speech when President Bush said the surge was working (and Obama did not). </p>
<p>Hannity says, looking back to 2003: “McCain supported the war.” Coulter points out: “So did Hillary.”</p>
<p>Alan Colmes says Hillary would say “no” to Coulter’s offer to campaign for her. </p>
<p>But Coulter goes on: “Hillary is absolutely more conservative” and moreover “she lies less than John McCain. And she’s smarter than John McCain so when she lies she knows it…John McCain is not only bad for Republicans he is also bad for the country.” Hannity doesn’t agree.</p>
<p>perhaps some added perspective from her recent writings:</p>
<p>"The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems – like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is “Hussein.” </p>
<p>But we won’t let them.</p>
<p>The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president – on a personal level, she’s still a little creepy.) I’d rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we’ll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility."</p>
<p>" …, but why would any Republican vote for McCain?</p>
<p>At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they’re supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas – tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals – Republicans in Congress will support “our” president – just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush’s great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. </p>
<p>You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid.</p>
<p>Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the “pragmatic” candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004."</p>
<p>“With friends like that, who needs enemies?” – folk expression</p>
<p>Ya’ think it might be a strategy to ensure Hillary is the nominee, and easier for the Republicans to beat in November.
A Republican Conspiracy, I say!</p>
<p>M,m,m,m, might they be REALLY worried about Obama as the candidate.</p>
<p>thats what i was thinking, I don’t really pay much attention to Ann- but I am wondering if it is more, as some columnists are alluding to, that she is wanting to have more copy, rather than the fact that she wants Bilary to occupy White House</p>
<p>However- I really wonder if McCain will be the GOP candidate- he seems too hawkish. I seriously think that the average American has many more things on her mind than more time/money spent in Iraq(n)
Other than a plan for getting out.</p>
<p>I think they are really worried about Obama.
He is charismatic they can’t deny that.
I am not as informed as some on CC,
but as someone who doesn’t subscribe to the NYT,
who didn’t retire from Microsoft when I was in my 30s &
who feels pretty much like I have gotten - ( to be blunt) screwed by the last administration, I am really looking forward for voting for a candidate that I * am* excited about. That is rare in my experience- even though I don’t have a lot, I have already given more money to Obama than all other political candidates in the 20 or so years that I have been donating combined, (admittedly, I am more likely to give to charities, than to campaigns).
Apparently, I am not alone.
<a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/349660_fundraising01.html[/url]”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/349660_fundraising01.html</a></p>
<p>SJCM an EK, </p>
<p>I think you have your conspiracy theory reversed. What democratic voter is going to vote for Hillary because Coulter supports her? If anything, the Obama camp is rejoicing about this gift from Ann.</p>
<p>The only candidate the Republicans are worried about is Hillary (hence all the “stop her now” efforts), and the only candidate they’ve got who’s outpolling her now is McCain and only by about 2 percentage points, so that is forcing some of them to think about how they really feel about McCain. </p>
<p>They don’t want Obama as president but I don’t think they’re “afraid” of him.</p>
<p>Read Odyssey Tiger’s post.</p>
<p>By far the most beatable Dem is Clinton. She carries so much negative baggage that she should be a member of the porter’s union. Obama will certainly be the most difficult of the two to beat.</p>
<p>I didn’t say there was a conspiracy theory where did you get that? 
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<p>One pundit is hardly a conspiracy.</p>
<p>If Coulter wants to support Clinton- she is welcome to her- if I was a Republican who didn’t want McCain though- I either would back one of the candidates I did want- or I would back Obama ( as many are apparently doing already)
But Ann isn’t dumb- she has to have noticed that Hilary will not be able to shake not only her own baggage, but that of her “better” :rolleyes: half.</p>
<p>SJCM: “Ya’ think it might be a strategy to ensure Hillary is the nominee, and easier for the Republicans to beat in November.
A Republican Conspiracy, I say!”</p>
<p>EK: “thats what i was thinking,”</p>
<p>(WashDad puts on his pundit hat.)</p>
<p>Coulter does political humor, she just doesn’t have her own television show. It’s not a serious suggestion, she’s making a point.</p>
<p>It’s going to be a Clinton/Obama ticket for the dems. How does a McCain/??? ticket stack up against that?</p>
<p>(Unless Obama turns down the VP slot. How stupid would that be? Monumentally, that’s how stupid. At least give him enough credit to understand that.)</p>
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<p>I agree. Nothing will unite a splintered Republican party faster than the thought of the phrase “President Hillary Clinton.”</p>
<p>“It’s going to be a Clinton/Obama ticket for the dems. How does a McCain/??? ticket stack up against that?”</p>
<p>While most pundits say that that won’t happen, in this election year one should never say never. I think the worst pairing for McCain would be Fred Thompson. I can just see the “grumpy old men” commercials and comedy routines now.</p>