Ann Coulter says she would support Hillary Clinton over John McCain.
Speaking on Fox’s "Hannity and Colmes," Coulter took aim at the GOP
frontrunner, and suggested he was little more than a Republican in name
only."If you are looking at substance rather than if there is an R or a D
after his name, manifestly, if he’s our candidate, than Hillary is
going to be our girl, because she’s more conservative than he is,"
Coulter said. "I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism."Coulter took aim at McCain’s positions — particularly his fervent
anti-torture stance — and said he and Clinton differ little on the
issues. Coulter also said she is prepared to campaign on Clinton’s
behalf should McCain win the party’s nomination."John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism, which he definitely is — he is bad for the country," she said.
Coulter is the latest high profile conservative to express dismay
with McCain’s surging candidacy. Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh said
Wednesday McCain’s rise was the product of a ‘fractured’ conservative
base and an "uninspiring" GOP presidential field."He is not the choice of conservatives, as opposed to the choice of
the Republican establishment — and that distinction is key," Limbaugh
continued. "The Republican establishment, which has long sought to rid
the party of conservative influence since Reagan, is feeling a victory
today as well as our friends in the media."
Not that anyone needed more proof that right-wing nuts are, well, nuts. But there it is anyway.
John McCain is the most conservative man in the Republican field. Even if you go back to when Rudy and Fred Thompson were in, only Fred Thompson is arguably as or more conservative than McCain. If you combine Romney’s Wall Street attributes, Rudy’s psychotic hawkishness, and Huckabee’s God-ology (he’s not descended from a chimpanzee! [unlike a certain President]), you probably wind up with a candidate who looks remarkably similar to Senator McCain.
I know that the New York Times recently endorsed McCain for the Republican nominee. And I know that Coulter has a point insofar as Hillary is a moderate-conservative Democrat, and a hawk on foreign policy. But still. Why doesn’t the base just love this guy? And forget that, because voters tend to be uninformed and buy into media myths (such as "John McCain is a maverick" or "John Kerry is the most electable Democrat") — but why don’t pundits such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, who ought to be fairly well-informed, rank him as their favorite candidate by far?
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