Coulter: I Will Vote for Hillary Over McCain.
Here’s a question, Coulter hates McCain because he sounds like a Democrat, and she hates Democrats so much she’d rather campaign for one?
Last year the bloggers attending CPAC signed a letter requesting that CPAC do not invite Coulter this year. I was one of the signators. They’re having her through the back door.
The Anchoress asks, Are Our Ideologies Our Idols?
UPDATE
Ann Coulter and Hillary Clinton, Sitting in a Tree
Soul sister!
This is what I wrote over at CQ on the topic:
Ann lost me a long time ago. Her humor is laced with a lot of mean-spiritedness and, like too many in the conservative commentariat, she demands ideological purity and threatens to go home if she doesn’t get it. I’m Center-Right, I plan to vote for Romney, but I really don’t want Conservative Commissars like Ann on my side. She should go hang out with Buchanan.
Coulter is the type that would rather be a voice in the wilderness than a constructive voice in getting things done. There are aspects of McCain that don’t thrill me either, but since when is putting Hillary in the White House a better alternative?
I’ve heard some say that, if McCain gets the nom, then they’d rather see America get 4 years of Clinton or Obama “as a lesson”. Those are the same idiots that would rather see everything from Iraq to the economy go to pot than see someone give them some of what they want and stave off real disaster in all other areas. Strange, but most of the reasons I became a conservative was because I wanted to avoid dealing with the sort of apparatchiks common on the left side of the spectrum. Well, hell! I find them anyway! Funny how idealogues prove that the spectrum is really a circle, and that extremes end up meeting in the same place after all.
If only she would! The whole Coulter game is about Coulter. Anything else doesn’t matter.
The entire Coulter cult of personality thing is too weird for me. And why is she so angry at McCain? Like, take a yoga class…
Like, take a yoga class…
OOooohhhhmmmmmm…..
I used to love Ann Coulter. But she’s become too acerbic–even for me. And I can certainly be acerbic!
Now, I feel that McCain is pretty much a RINO. But would I cast my vote for Hillary? No way! And I’m not a registered Republican, either.
As I see it, the Republicans have choices: McCain is committed to winning in the WOT and doesn’t feed from the earmark pork barrel. Romney is a conservative with plenty of experience in private industry and governenment, who also wants to win on the WOT.
The Dems have the choice of two cut-&-run candidates: one liberal and another one even more liberal.
I simply can’t understand the hysterics among the Republicans; but Coulter’s doing it to sell books and steal the spotlight.
I simply can’t understand the hysterics among the Republicans;
I can understand an opposition to McCain based on his Senate record, his admitted lack of knowledge of economics, and his temperament and character. Those are all legitimate grounds for preferring someone else. They are among the reasons I preferred Rudy and Fred, and do prefer Romney.
But the allergic reaction I’m seeing from many on the die-hard Right is, as you put it, hysterical. It makes me want to shake them and shout “Get a grip!”
Part of the Coulter game “is about Coulter.”
Did you read the email comment I sent out the other day? She’s not that complicated. Her hyperbole comes from the tension created by her being a longtime movement conservative and a longtime Republican. Her purpose is for movement conservatives – often motivated by just one or a handful of hot-button issues – to prevail in steering the GOP…. and for the GOP to reflect the agendas of movement conservatives.
Compromise, like surrender, is not an option.
JMK, if that is her purpose she’s going about it the wrong way.