by Mark Silva
Testing the limits of tolerance, the campaign of 2008 may be doing.
We've been amused by the assertion of Ann Coulter, the iconoclastic conservative, that, if Sen. John McCain wins the Republican Party's presidential nomination, she will campaign for Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Coulter said so last night on Fox's Hannity & Colmes.
If this is how far the card-carrying members of the conservative punditry are willing to carry their objections to McCain, the self-styled "maverick'' who has appealed to independent voters but alienated many of his party's most conservative members, this could be a fun year.





Comments
Who cares what Annie Coultergeist thinks.
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The pathetic Republic Party is afraid of Obama and they should be.
Posted by: John E | February 1, 2008 5:29 PM
Good. We need some way to rid ourselves of Ann Coulter and her screeching, idiotic rhetoric. Giving her to the Dems is just as good a way as any.
Posted by: John W. | February 1, 2008 5:32 PM
Headline: Ann Coulter endorses Hillary Clinton.
I wonder if Clinton will issue a press release announcing this, like she did with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend?
Posted by: KPO'M | February 1, 2008 6:00 PM
I saw the exchange between Coulter and Hannity/Gingridge last night and I'm fairly certain that she was kidding.
As far as being afraid of Obama, you've got that right! He talks a good game of change and hope but I have yet to hear even one (1) idea of any merit or vision...
Posted by: Steve P | February 1, 2008 6:02 PM
Anny who? Oh ya, the biggotted, homophobe who looks like she has been ridden very hard and put away wet. Why give Annie air time? She really is a complete waste of flesh. How long until nude pix of her end up on the web?
Posted by: Rjinchi | February 1, 2008 6:05 PM
As a conservative backer of Senator McCain, I hope the Senator sends Ms. Coulter a "thank you" card for giving the campaign such a gift. Being repudiated by Ann Coulter is almost like being repudiated by a neo-Nazi group. She is a TV shock jock who basically took Howard Stern's act and twisted it to fit right-wing extremist punditry. Ann Coulter has no credibility because she's all shtick and no sincerity. And she shed what shred of respectability she may have had when she attacked the September 11 widows as "broads" who were "self-obsessed" and "enjoying" life without their husbands who were killed on 9/11.
Posted by: Tim1979 | February 1, 2008 6:08 PM
Her column from a couple of weeks ago summed up McCain's liberal positions quite nicely. About the only thing he seems to have right is he 'seems' to favor winning the war, but then he negates that by joining the 'waterboarding is torture' crowd.
Posted by: Jack Wilson | February 1, 2008 6:12 PM
John W.,
No thanks. Let Ms. Cooter crawl back under the rock she came from. A friend of mine was good enough to send me a sample of her lastest rant. It almost makes me want to vote for McCain.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2008/01/24/straight_talk_express_takes_scenic_route_to_truth
Posted by: dt | February 1, 2008 6:13 PM
"HANNITY SPEAKS, OOOPS I MEAN ANN SPEAKS FROM THE TOP OF HER NECK"
"WILLIS WHAT YOU TALKIN ABOUT"
I WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR A WOMAN. GIVE ME A BREAK, JOHN JOHN IS MY MAN, WELL NOT MY MAN, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
BUT MITT MIGHT BE MY DADDY!
Posted by: Roger Morris | February 1, 2008 6:17 PM
I was watching it and I'm 99% certain it was a joke! It doesn't matter anyway because Hillary is getting trounced on Tuesday.
ABC (Anybody But Clinton)
Posted by: Reality | February 1, 2008 6:20 PM
I've never cared much for Coulter, but THIS is one thing I totally agree with!! To me, McCain is SCAREY...I'm sure everyone has already heard about him saying he doesn't care if we're in Iraq for 100 years!!! Calculate that...if you will... in your mind and estimate how many US lives and how much of our resources (that we have LEFT, that is) that would take!!! And it was on the evening news last night that the US isn't even prepared to defend itself here at HOME!!! If people haven't figured out YET why we're in Iraq (OIL!!!!) I guess they NEVER WILL!!! McCain might have been a POW, but does that mean we should vote him in as OUR PRESIDENT? Just the way he carries himself...never smiling and always very serious ... he reminds me of a ROBOT, and a scarey one at that!!!. Talk about 'mongers'... this person is DEFINITELY a WAR MONGER!!!
Posted by: mary | February 1, 2008 6:28 PM
Gotta love Ann. She's correct, McLame is more of a socialist than Hillary. Secretly she's hoping the Dems win because a future suitcasenuke in a major city under a Sozi regime will be all that is needed for racial separatism to begin. No RonPaul, no peace.
Posted by: Floyd H. | February 1, 2008 6:30 PM
♩
I saw that old Reich Winger
On the street last night
She seemed so sad to me that
I just smiled
And she talked about some old crimes
And she drank herself some Koolaid
Still crazy afler all these years
Oh, still crazy after all these years
She's not the kind of gal
Who tends to socialize medicine
She seems so lean in
Odd and funny ways
GWB is gone♬
Start countin' the days
Still crazy afler all these years
Oh, still crazy after all these years♪
Posted by: C.Morris | February 1, 2008 6:32 PM
"It almost makes me want to vote for McCain."
dt,
That could be the plan...
Posted by: C.Morris | February 1, 2008 6:33 PM
If HE wants to stump for Hillary, let HIM!
Posted by: Hardliner | February 1, 2008 6:39 PM
Ann Coulter Endorses Hillary... I don't think so!
This is nothing more than a orchestrated attempt by the GOP to energize it's party. Mobilize it's base and "attempt" to move the GOP moderates back to their nominee... Very Slick.
The House of Reagan and Goldwater no longer exists .
After seven years of rectal stimulation from the Bush administration... I switched parties. And I'm All In!
Posted by: Randy | February 1, 2008 6:48 PM
Hey Jack Wilson, let's subject you to waterboarding---then you can tell us whether or not it's torture.
Posted by: Tim1979 | February 1, 2008 7:09 PM
I don't want John McCain, either!
Posted by: Republican Voter | February 1, 2008 7:23 PM
So Ann Coulter is hoping this will drive votes to Obama. She clearly thinks he's the weaker challenger.
This is silly.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 1, 2008 7:36 PM
The Blonde leading the blind!
Posted by: Jim | February 1, 2008 7:37 PM
Coulter has plain LOST HER friggin' mind! She'd rather support Hillary than Mike Huckabee. Good riddens.
Posted by: Ian from Ann Arbor | February 1, 2008 7:41 PM
COULTER,
CLINTON DOESNT NEED YOU. SHE WILL WIN ANYWAY!!!
Posted by: FJ Stratfrd | February 1, 2008 7:42 PM
Headline: Ann Coulter endorses Hillary Clinton.
I wonder if Clinton will issue a press release announcing this, like she did with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend?
Posted by: KPO'M | February 1, 2008 6:00 PM
What is so wrong about that ? Didn't Obama announce about his endorsements from Edward Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy ?
Posted by: Nazir Patel | February 1, 2008 7:50 PM
it's offensive that the media continually gives this lady airtime.
Posted by: alex | February 1, 2008 7:57 PM
Oh, Anne Coulter was just messing with you.
Fact is conservatives will just not vote or work if Senor Juan McCain is the nominee.
He will go the way of Bob Dole and Gerry Ford.
Republicans can't win if conservatives boycott.
How inane are they to disregard this?
Posted by: politwriter | February 1, 2008 7:58 PM
One more reason NOT to vote for Hillary.
Posted by: Enrique | February 1, 2008 8:00 PM
Let's take a quiz:
What's wrong with this story?
a) Ann's not really endorsing Hillary, she was using hyperbole to make a point.
b) The media pays any attention to what that irrelevant hasbeen has to say.
c) The media continues to focus on personalities rather than issues.
d) All of us posters/sheep think this story is worth commenting on.
e) All of the above.
Take out a #2 pencil and fill in the appropriate bubble. Or, in the case of Coulter, bubblehead.
Posted by: Bubba | February 1, 2008 8:02 PM
Yeah, and Bill O'Lielly was going to stop supporting Bush if no evidence of WMD in Iraq turned up...
Posted by: C.Morris | February 1, 2008 8:11 PM
Oh, this is a silly non-story. Coulter was just making a point. But one I don't agree with. From that POV, for conservatives, it's a matter of who can most be influenced once in office. Clinton? That's a laugher. She's staunch left and her base will allow her to stay put. Bush was too old shoe GOP to have to buckle to any conservative pressure. McCain however, has declared himself a conservative and while that may be a laugher, if his feet are held to the fire once he's in, such pressure may yield results. His stand on core issues is all right, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: RBa123 | February 1, 2008 8:19 PM
Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? Not at all. Just the same, a vote is a vote, is a vote, is a vote. So, Ms. Coulter, please vote for Hillary.
Posted by: Richard Friedman | February 1, 2008 8:21 PM
Rofl rofl OMG too funny. Now the republicans hate Coulter. Thats too funny you used to love her when she ran around saying hateful things about liberals... but now that she says something favorable about your anti-christ thats the last straw? You "people" are hilarious in a sad bizarre kind of way.
Posted by: OMGrofl | February 1, 2008 8:37 PM
Sounds like a classic Karl Rove trick to turn moderate democrats against Hillary. Not that I am going to vote for her, I just don't think this deserves any attention at all!
Posted by: Fat&Sassy | February 1, 2008 8:46 PM
Obama reminds me of a small child who tasted his first candy--and doesn't know what to do with it. I will vote 3rd party before I vote McCain or Obama (if he is the nominee) for both are opportunists with no statesmanship qualities or finese.
Posted by: Dr Arthur Ide | February 1, 2008 8:48 PM
Anne Coulter is a self-serving, narcissistic skank masqurading as a pundit.
Posted by: Veronika | February 1, 2008 8:50 PM
The Clintons should be grateful to get the endorsement of this vivacious, sexy blonde bombshell. I'm sure she is just drooling at the mouth to get out on the stump with Bill. The two of them campaigning together will be the hit of the season and guarantee Hillary the sought after conservative woman vote, and assure Bill of a means to relief some tension. For Ann, well, maybe a few weeks with Bill will really let people know how big her mouth is.
Posted by: GW | February 1, 2008 9:02 PM
Can't you people look at issues instead of ideology? Why cannot you accept republicans endorse democrats, and vice versa?
Posted by: milestone | February 1, 2008 9:04 PM
To Tim1979:
Bless you, you give me hope for TRUE conservatives. May you one day take back the GOP. It's time for reason and intelligence, not her brand of hateful nonsense...or Huckabee thinking the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Posted by: FedUp | February 1, 2008 9:09 PM
And another thing, the far right thinking McCain is "too Liberal" is a perfect example of what's wrong with the far right.
Posted by: FedUp | February 1, 2008 9:11 PM
You libs have got to get a life. Ann's pulling your string again. And she loves every minute of watching you rant and wretch. Humor obviously isn't one of the high points of liberalism in Leftland.
Posted by: Gary | February 1, 2008 9:42 PM
Well, having seen the video I am a little woosy.
How could anyone, anywhere at anytime have taken this cackling, crowing, rabble-rouser seriously.
Is she insane?
She is obviously the laughing stock over at Fox. Even the low level gaffers and camera people were laughing at the whole show.
Posted by: C.Morris | February 1, 2008 9:55 PM
Hillary fans, you can have the angry tranny. Us McCain supporters don't want her. Thanks, Ann!
Posted by: Jeff | February 1, 2008 10:10 PM
If the Dem is winning in Nov and let's suppose it is not Hillary. Then no more White House? I mean, they want change so are the calling it the BLACK HOUSE?
Posted by: Estela E | February 1, 2008 10:10 PM
I think John McCain would have a pretty good idea of what torture is. After, you know, having LIVED THROUGH IT FOR FIVE YEARS.
Posted by: Jeff | February 1, 2008 10:47 PM
Who cares what this THING thinks! Is it a man or a woman?
Posted by: weinerdog43 | February 1, 2008 11:03 PM
I think you're all missing the point ...It's all about the ratings the program gets. If Ann Coulter boosts ratings then she'll be on. It doesn't matter if hate her or love her.
Posted by: Mike | February 1, 2008 11:44 PM
There is an all out effort to stop Hillary from getting the Dem nomination, and if successful will mean another four years of a Repub White House. The idea that Repubs are "Salivating" to run against Hillary is the farthest thing from the TRUTH as I've ever seen in sixty years of being involved in and studying politics.
Posted by: lylepink | February 2, 2008 12:21 AM
Coulter is the most sad pathetic human and the republican party should really just freeze her out.
Hillary is smart and a hard worker and hope she can find a way to work for her causes, but I can't get past her voting to approve this war. I think McCain is a true patriot and I appreciate his service. But this Iraq war has to be seen as a disaster and staying longer is not helping the Iraqi people it seems. I know our heroic soldiers want to protect them but we have to find a better way. I can only vote for the only candidate who had the vision to speak up against it before it happened and thankfully I agree with Obama on everything else. You can't separate the issues of war and the economy because this war is killing our economy.
Posted by: v | February 2, 2008 12:43 AM
Humor obviously isn't one of the high points of liberalism in Leftland.
Posted by: Gary | February 1, 2008 9:42 PM
I wouldn't classify Coulter as humorous by any stretch of the imagination. Mean, hateful, rude and pathetic would be better descriptives. Now Jon Stewart? THAT'S humor.
Posted by: DD | February 2, 2008 12:47 AM
Hey, politwriter, thanks for trying to smear Senator McCain by calling him "Senor Juan McCain"---if only because at long last you show us all your racist colors.
Regarding your angry-child threat: Good. Don't vote for Senator McCain. Goodbye. In the fall, find the inevitable ultra-right wing fringe candidate and vote for him. And then when your candidate gets only one tenth of one percent of the vote, you can congratulate yourself on your ideological purity, head down to your backyard bomb shelter, smoke a good cigar and think about how the world has been going to hell since Bob Taft lost to Ike.
Posted by: Tim1979 | February 2, 2008 2:00 AM
Come on over to our side, Ann.
Posted by: Strapons for Hillary | February 2, 2008 8:39 AM
Ann Coulter is little more than a Nazi propagandist.
In many countries she would be convicted of hate-speech, and deservedly so.
Why does the American press keep bringing up her name and quoting her?
Posted by: John Chuckman, Toronto, Canada | February 2, 2008 8:46 AM
Hmm, Ann Coulter supporting Hillary might just be the best thing that's happened to McCain's campaign so far, with the possible exception of his win in Florida. ;-)
Posted by: KCH | February 2, 2008 9:49 AM
The above post is not the real Bubba. Just another Bubba wannabe. Although I agree, sans being a sheep.
Posted by: Bubba | February 2, 2008 9:56 AM
Ann Coulter did an interview on FOX. That's a suprise. Just waiting for her to crawl onto Rush's radio program & give her conservative shock jock crap some air time to the several members of his audience. Their teeny-tiny ship is doing a good impression of the Titanic.
Posted by: RomanB | February 2, 2008 12:14 PM
jeff says mcpilot knows about torture because he lived through it for five years. mcnutjob should be happy he lived long enough to even get tortured since he crashed five planes prior to his capture. this, of course, after serving a whopping 20 hours in combat. some infantryman on the ground in vietnam spent over 7000 hours in combat. 20 hours of combat service and mcsilverspoon received 28 medals, about a medal and a half for each hour of service.
you can read it all at: www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com
Posted by: crud | February 2, 2008 12:27 PM
This is one of the funniest videos I've seen all year. I have never beeen a fan of Ann's nor do I agree with her rhetoric, but she is making a real point. The point is that both Clinton and McClain are both moderate. That being the case then McClain is a hypocrite. Matter fo fact Hillary may be just a little right of center, which is ok with me. If Repubs can get past all this emotional distain they have for Bill they might just see that Hillary is our best option left in this race. Let us not forget she was a Goldwater Repub for a time in her life. As Bill would say "I'm not making this stuff up folks."
Posted by: Frankie | February 2, 2008 1:54 PM
... and here is why ...
John McCain: Unfit to serve as Commander-In-Chief: The spoiled son of military privilege got a free ride throughout his military career despite repeated instances of sex scandals and screw-ups
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/mccain_military_record.htm
Time for a little "Straight Talk" from Senator McCain about the Jimmy McCain satellite image
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/questions_mccain.htm
John McCain's suicide attempt and his resulting PTSD
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec07/mccain_suicide_ptsd.htm
Betrayal, deceit, corruption and John McCain
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm
Sen. McCain Still Wants To Be President / Take a look at his un-presidential credentials:
Try to separate the real John McCain from the mythical John McCain.
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/mccain_myth.htm
John McCain:The Manchurian Candidate
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm
McCain Is No Hero: He seriously violated the Military Code of Conduct
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcianhro.htm
Luck Of Admiral McCain's Son Not For "Grunts"
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/smith_mc.htm
Sen. McCain Wants To Be President, Check-out His Unpresidential Credentials
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/story22.htm
Pictorial History of John McCain's Collaboration With The Vietnamese Reds
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/mccainpic.htm
John McCain's Definition of a "Fringe Veteran"
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/frng_vet.htm
Navy Awarded McCain Medals For Valor Without Eyewitnesses
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcainmdl.htm
A "Flying Squad" Of Returned POWs Are Protecting McCain's Image
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/markmcan.htm
Candidate McCain Must Make His POW Files Public
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/mcprsrel.htm
John McCain Is No Hero
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/bengmcan.htm
Former POWs Say They "Doubted" Reds Tortured McCain
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/guylarson.htm
The Kerry/McCain Campaign Against Ted Sampley / and the lies of DIA operative Susan Katz Keating
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/ker_keating.htm
Did Insurgents Execute U.S. Army Pfc. "Matt" Maupin?
FYI: As posted at... http://www.usvetdsp.com/maupin_exe.htm
Check out Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.org
FYI: As posted at... http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/
Posted by: Searock | February 2, 2008 2:05 PM
Ann Coulter.
She's a MAN BABY!!!
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-coulteradamsapple.htm
Posted by: Logic Prisoner | February 2, 2008 2:30 PM
Chuckman, I think Ann Coulter is a hate-filled shrieky bigot, too. But I'm glad I live in a country where NO ONE can be "convicted" of hate speech.
Posted by: JB | February 2, 2008 2:42 PM
About the only thing he seems to have right is he 'seems' to favor winning the war, but then he negates that by joining the 'waterboarding is torture' crowd.
Posted by: Jack Wilson | February 1, 2008 6:12 PM
Waterboarding is torture!!!
Posted by: An Inconvenient Truth | February 2, 2008 3:09 PM
Ann Coulter is a nut job. Becuase her man won't get the nomination she'll support Hillary, what a joke. She's also against people who don't see it her way.
Also, Rush & Sean better stop crying too!!!
Posted by: joe gores | February 2, 2008 5:41 PM
Please include me in the 'waterboarding is torture' crowd.
GWB has turned America into a de-facto torture regime. We are all supposed to pretend it isn't.
BTW, GWB has issued more signing statements regarding the congress's latest war spending bill.
Once the seed is planted....we may not come out of this.
Posted by: C.Morris | February 2, 2008 5:49 PM
Most "conservatives" of Coulter's (and Searock's - see above) ilk despise McCain because of, not in spite of, his military service. They hate the men and women in uniform and the success that they're having, despite difficult circumstances, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Aln | February 2, 2008 7:50 PM
Rush Limbaugh has become politikally irrevelant.
He's too disconnected from the average man.
You got to get out of the limo every once in while or you'll be listening to the dead dial tone of the politikally disconnected.
Rush is a Hollywood Star, a politikal entertainer and like all Hollywood stars
"We'll see on the way up and
we'll see you on the way down." M.F.
Rush road the edge of populism until the point were his own opinion mattered more then the average joe.
It's very similiar to Ann Coulter, who is revealing her true colors this week. She's a New York liberal and always has been. A real Republican would never ever vote for a Democrat and that's a fact that everybody understands.
She played "the right" to sell books and this is very well understood within the entertainment community. And why not? It worked, but now she's come back around again to real her true inner self.
They are Politikal Entertainers one and all.
Posted by: Steve Real | February 2, 2008 8:18 PM
Ann ....shut up and listen for 5 minutes , you might learn something .
Posted by: rickmiester demiester | February 2, 2008 8:57 PM
Ann Coulter is not alone here. Although I am a libertarian and voting for Paul. I'll vot for Phillies in the general if McCain or Romni are nominated. But my employer who was a Guliani supporter thinks that if McCain is elected he might vote other than Republican or just stay home.
Posted by: Uil | February 2, 2008 9:57 PM
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Posted by: C.Morris | February 2, 2008 5:49 PM
Where did you get the idea that Duh'bya's idiotic signing statements mean anything? They don't.
If he signs a bill, it becomes law the way it is written, and not the way he might want to amend it through a signing statement. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution only gives the President two choices when a bill is presented to him: he can either veto it in its entirety or sign it entirely into law. There is no middle ground. The U.S. Supreme Court held twice already (in INS v. Chadha and New York v. Clinton) that the President can neither partially veto nor partially sign a bill into law; and he has no power to amend or cancel a law after it has become a law. He simply doesn’t have the power to do any of these things. Thus, insofar as that is what Duh’bya is attempting to do by his “signing statements” his actions in that regard are a nullity.
Posted by: John W. | February 3, 2008 1:56 AM
I edited her columns for more than a year and I can tell you, she's not above inserting lies when she paraphrases people. When has McCain ever said he was the "only" Republican who supported the surge? I've been covering the primaries and I don't recall him EVER saying that. She makes up lies, accuses other people of saying them, then attacks them for telling the lies they never told--the lies SHE made up. And yes, McCain should send her a thank you note. She may be the only American woman more hated than Hillary. Oh, and the only way a nude picture of her will ever be posted anywhere is if there's a fetish site for limp spaghetti. Her mouth boasts the only muscle tone in her whole stringy being.
Posted by: karenina | February 4, 2008 2:19 PM
Waterboarding IS torture and a lot of us Republicans agree with McCain. It's time we spoke out against so-called "Christian" conservatives like Coulter who think that God's okay with torturing people. The God I worship doesn't sanction torture, Ann. Our military should be a organization of pride and honor, not a club for thugs. The soldiers who enjoy that sort of thing are an embarassment to the vast majority of American soldiers. Most soldiers want nothing to do with that stuff and I should know--I'm the sister, aunt, and daughter of soldiers, a proud supporter of our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a dedicated opponent of people like Coulter.
Posted by: karenina | February 4, 2008 2:27 PM
this just In Romney drops out
McCain the nominee
Ann are you ready for your Hillary 08 button???
Posted by: Kirk Linn | February 7, 2008 6:40 PM
I've always hated Coulter...but I love it when she speaks pro-Hillary. It not only cracks me up...but it makes me smile. She's smarter than I thought she was.
Posted by: amber | May 6, 2008 11:54 AM