In fact, Ann would even campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain is nominated. This is the same Ann Coulter that vowed to fight against Hillary Clinton because she did "not want to be fitted for a burqa..." This is the same Ann Coulter that said, "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president." This is the same Ann Coulter that put even money on a bet that Hillary Clinton was gay. This is just the garbage that Ann Coulter ranted about Hillary Clinton--you can check out the rest of the bile and filth coming out of her mouth here.
But now Coulter takes a 180-degree turn, and practically endorses Hillary Clinton. The big question to ask is why? What is the reason for Coulter's self-interest in endorsing Clinton, over that of Barack Obama? Coulter is a syndicated columnist, and author, who relishes in promoting the hatred of Democratic Party politics and politicians to hard-core conservative group for profit. If Hillary Clinton were to win the Oval Office, this would give Coulter four to eight years worth of spewing her filth in newspaper columns, Fox News appearances, and books, to her rabid, hard-core fans. I would also say that it would be better for Coulter to have Clinton in office, as president, rather than having Barack Obama in office. With Barack Obama, Coulter would have to make sure her attacks against Obama will not be construed as racist attacks. Coulter may find it easier to blur the lines of sexism in her attacks against Clinton, over that of racist attacks against Obama.
But that is only one part of the puzzle here. Coulter is endorsing Clinton only if John McCain becomes the GOP nominee for president. This brings up a second question of why is Coulter against McCain as president? I found this Time Magazine article on the Resurrection of John McCain, which contained this interesting detail:
Conservative fears about McCain are often irrational: through a 25-year career in Congress, first in the House and then in the Senate, McCain has proved himself consistently pro-life on abortion and a hawk on defense, a scourge of wasteful government spending and a generally reliable vote in favor of tax cuts. Yet at last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of party power brokers, McCain was booed.
Conservative élites are the ones most likely to break out into hives at the mention of McCain's name. Former Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay has declared that he would not vote for McCain in the general election, even if Hillary Clinton were the Democratic nominee. Railing against McCain and Huckabee, both of whom he views as anathema to conservatives, talk-radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh recently warned his 13.5 million listeners, "If either of these two guys gets the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party." A few days later, Limbaugh was so outraged by the possibility that Republicans might support McCain that he bellowed, "If you Republicans don't mind McCain's positions, then what is it about Hillary's positions you dislike? They're the same!"
The truth is that McCain and Clinton remain far apart on the political spectrum. But it is also true that conservatives have a lengthy bill of complaint against McCain. In the past decade he has joined with Democrats on a series of crusades in Congress — with Russ Feingold on campaign-finance reform and Ted Kennedy on immigration reform — that a majority of Republicans have opposed. He voted against President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and '03, each time citing the need for fiscal restraint. And during his 2000 campaign, he labeled Pat Robertson and the Rev. Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance."
He has seemed to delight in doing battle with members of his own party and creed. "John's mistake is that he makes it personal," says a close friend in Washington. "When he's convinced he's doing the right thing, he has a hard time staying above the fray." All the while — and this may be what galls conservatives most — McCain has been hailed by liberals and lionized in the mainstream news media for being a rebel.
There is something about McCain's "maverick" status that drives GOP elites' bat-crazy. McCain may be a conservative, but he is more than willing to go off on his own tangent in creating legislation that the GOP does not approve of--McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform, immigration reform with Ted Kennedy, and even McCain's own ban against the Bush administration's use of torture on suspected terrorists. I think this is what is driving the Republican Party elites crazy over McCain's front-running status. They don't want a President McCain to deal with a Democratic congress on such issues as immigration reform, or even health care. This brings up another question--is Ann Coulter working with the GOP elites to smear McCain with this Hillary endorsement? I find it rather strange for Coulter to go on Fox News with this wacky endorsement, especially since Fox News has shown itself to be a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. I just find Coulter's behavior here rather strange. I can't determine is Coulter is using this "endorsement" of Clinton as crazed, insane hype, a campaign smear against McCain, or Clinton, or even all three. It is another example of just how strange this campaign has become.
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