Ann Coulter: I'll Campaign For Hillary If McCain Is The Nominee

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, but Coulter's pronouncement is a new, and surprising, development. Watch her explain her rationale to Sean Hannity, while Alan Colmes can only sit back and laugh:

Comments

[starrianna]

What, exactly is she trying to do? Besides pulling comments from notes stuffed in her man-made noonie.

[vinny]

ann must be confusing this "horse race" with a "horse face" contest...

[westreal]

Whenever a Republican says they wish Clinton will win, guess what? THEY REALLY DO WANT HER TO WIN BECAUSE McCAIN CAN BEAT HER in the general election. I don't doubt that some republicans will cross party lines just to vote for Hillary this Tuesday. Of course the only time any of them would vote democratic. lol

Anyways, even Democrats will vote McCain if she's in the general. I'm one of them.

The only way to avoid this disaster. Vote Obama. Obama will sweep the floor with McCain...or Romney...or Huckabee...or Paul.

[ReadALot]

Very interesting. Since Coulter is obviously not a fan of McCain here's an item from a Wikipedia search on natural-born citizens and John McCain.

Children born outside the United States to American parents

Three major candidates have sought the Presidency who were born outside the United States: Barry Goldwater (ran in 1964) was born in Arizona while it was still a U.S. territory, George Romney (ran in 1968) was born in Mexico to U.S. parents, and John McCain (ran in 2000 and runs in 2008) was born in the Panama Canal Zone to U.S. parents. Barry Goldwater's case among these three is unique in that although Arizona was not a state, it was a fully incorporated territory of the United States, making it debatable whether or not he was born "outside" the United States. The Panama Canal Zone, was under United States sovereignty between 1903 and 1979.[7] None of these candidates was elected, so it has never been fully addressed whether children born to Americans overseas are "natural-born citizens" and thus eligible for the Presidency. However, McCain is currently seeking the 2008 Republican nomination for President.

[BlackandProud]

Hillary and Coulter. Two peas in a pod.

I don't see much difference between the two.

Coulter is the Hillary of the right. They are both power hungry dividers with little credibility left...

...and, actually, I liked Coulter's book more than Hillary's. At least it was an entertaining read.

[DonRoberto]

Congratulations. Coulter makes yet another "outrageous" comment, and once again she gets her name mentioned in Huffpost.
When will Arianna and the editorial staff finally learn that this is only "pretend" news, and not real news?

[dgscol]

Ann is serious - so please. She is excited - the idea of a lesbian/bisexual in the White House.

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

AC, did you forget that Hillary is both a Democrat AND a liberal?? Sounds like the KoolAid you've been guzzling has kicked in!

[mrJJ]

How bad does McCain want the Presidency? Know the opposition...

Before Getting $3 Million Loan, McCain Had to Buy Life Insurance

Just how dire was John McCain's financial situation last year, before he vaulted back to frontrunner status? The Washington Post has some details on the $3 million loan that McCain took out in order to finance the campaign, including a rather macabre detail — because McCain pledged his fundraising list as collateral, and he would need to be alive to give the list its full value, he had to take out a special life insurance policy just in case he failed to survive the campaign.

As it turned out, the gamble appears to have paid off. McCain has won the crucial primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, and looks like he's on his way to the nomination. As for the debts — he was $500,000 in the hole even before this loan — he should have no problems raising the money now

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/02/before_getting_3_million_loan.php

[Mormondude]

Not only is McCain much to liberal, he's a big, fat liar.

He said over and over how he's never entertained the idea of leaving the Republican party. Now there have been numerous statements from different people saying that is categorically false.

In 2001 when the Republicans held control of the Senate with a 50-50 split, Democrats immediately started looking for someone to pick off and throw power back to themselves. They were looking at 3 people. Lincon Chafee, John McCain, and Jim Jeffords. McCain had numerous discussions with Tom Daschel, John Edwards, and Harry Reid to discuss leaving the Republican party. And they all agree that he was receptive to these discussions, even if he never actually cut a deal with them.

Once Jumpin' Jim Jeffords cut his deal, the rest of it was all unnecessary and it ended at that point.

But then again in 2004, there were stories that John Kerry was considering offering McCain the VP nomination. The story was always that McCain rejected Kerry's advances. Now Kerry is on the record saying that McCain's people were the ones that actually instigated the discussion in the first place! It wasn't Kerry recruiting McCain, it was the other way around.

How the media lets all this slide is beyond me. The guy made despicable lies about Romney's record against timetables. He is now lying about his loyalty to the Republican party, or lack thereof.

If Republicans are stupid enough to allow this guy to get nominated, we deserve to lose.

[burneb]

Coulter's statements merely confirm what we have always known about Asinine Annie. She is a flame thrower who says things to be outrageous, not to be accurate or make honest sense. Outrageous gets more speaking engagements and book sales, especially from those who get their jollies from a daily dose of hating liberals.

Republicans in control have been so callous and incompetent lately, that even heedless flame throwers like Coulter and Limbaugh have been under great strain to defend them. Having a Dem for President again will give them a big target for their oral flatulance. Imagine their relief and joy.

[priorzola]

This is Ann Coulter trying to recreate the world that was her bread and butter; making fun of Clintons. She and other conservative pundits have lost their mojo in the last 8 years because their dreams have come true and we had a Republican president. But even they can't stand by and support him with a straight face. They Clinton Administration created these monsters. Another one will bring them back to life.

[MelindaPost]

good. bring her on. she'll give HC a sympathy vote.

[LeoMarvin]

Ideologues are so funny. I know a lot of Republicans who say they'll stay home rather than vote for McCain because he's just as liberal as Hillery. And you don't have to look hard on this site to find liberals who say basically the same thing in reverse (i.e., they'll sit on their hands or vote for Nader, but never for Hillary, because she's no different than the Republicans).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/_84026.html

There's just one problem with those arguments: They're ridiculously, idiotically wrong. As ADA liberal voting scores confirm, Hillary is a liberal, McCain a conservative. Here are their liberal voting scores for 2005 and 2006 (you can check prior years on the ADA site -- they're similar to these):

Hillary -- 95% liberal voting record.

McCain -- 12.5% liberal voting record.

http://www.adaction.org/votingrecords.htm

It's amazing how clearly some people can see exactly what they want to believe.

[Fernando]

Ann, thanks but no thanks!

Everybody, be sure Ann goes back into her cage after she feeds. And Watch your feet, she likes to feed at the bottom.