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Coulter Would Campaign for Clinton Over McCain

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Posted on Feb 1, 2008
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“She’s our girl”: Coulter contends that Clinton would move to the right after winning, while McCain would shift toward the left.

OK, so clearly Ann Coulter is not above leaning heavily on hyperbole to raise a few eyebrows and sell a few books, but this time she even managed to shock us a little with her announcement on Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” that she’d go to bat for Hillary Clinton if she’s up against John McCain for the presidency, because, Coulter said, Clinton’s “more conservative” than McCain. 

When her hosts at Fox News managed to pick their jaws up off the floor and press her on that point, though, Coulter made it clear that her startling endorsement had less to do with a sense of connection with Clinton and her platform than it did with Coulter’s extreme disdain for McCain.

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By PatrickHenry, February 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm #

Very informative post on that nutcase.

Thanks

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By jackpine savage, February 4, 2008 at 4:37 pm #

Quit cutting and pasting the same comment everywhere…that’s called spam.

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By Paracelsus, February 4, 2008 at 3:44 pm #

Do a Google video search on Larry Sinclair and Obama. Then report back.

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By Maani, February 4, 2008 at 3:40 pm #

All:

There has been some question about LieDig’s lack of neutrality in reporting on Hillary and Obama.  One person actually suggested that LieDig “might as well be on Obama’s payroll,” or similar comment.

I just did some “hard” research; I checked EVERY SINGLE ITEM that has appeared with regard to Obama and/or Hillary over the past few months (i.e., not including items on the GOP candidates or specifically on Edwards, Kucinich et al).  Here is what I found in the six categories:

Audio/Visual: 10 items favorable to Obama, none favorable to Hillary.

Arts/Culture: 3 items favorable to Obama, 1 item favorable to Hillary.

Interviews: 1 item favorable to Obama, none favorable to Hillary.

Reports: 11 items favorable to Obama, none favorable to Hillary.

Ear to the Ground: 5 items favorable to Obama, none favorable to Hillary, 2 items neutral

Cartoons: 5 items favorable to Obama, none favorable to Hillary.

In each case, note that by “favorable” I mean that the text of the item (and, in some cases, the photo that accompanies it) were either directly favorable to Obama and/or directly or indirectly critical of Hillary.

So much for journalistic integrity, even in the alternative media…

Peace.

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By Paracelsus, February 3, 2008 at 11:45 pm #

Maybe McCain will try to fight back by confirming Hillary’s well-known bisexuality and her lesbian affair with her beautiful assistant, Huma Abedin.  Google “Hillary” and “Huma Abedin” and you’ll get almost 6,000 hits.  Turns out Huma is a Moslem who grew up in Saudi Arabia and is strongly suspected of working for Saudi intelligence.

Or maybe he’ll capitulate to Clinton blackmail.  You never can tell what a psychologically unstable guy will do.

And that last point is why - be prepared for this, folks - I would not in any circumstances vote for John McCain, not if either Hillary or Obama were the alternative.  Evil is safer than crazy.  Leftie amateur inexperience is safer than crazy.  So I agree with Ann Coulter who says:

“I’d rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we’ll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility.”

How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses “profit” as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes “stopping global warming” is worth destroying the American economy, won’t drill ANWR, won’t appoint strict constructionist justices, won’t protect marriage, will give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times, and lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage?

Rush is right.  A McCain presidency will be the destruction of the Republican Party.  It needs to be rebuilt, not wiped out with the field clear for the fascists of the left to consolidate power and eliminate freedom.

And maybe the only way to rebuild it is in dedicated impassioned opposition to a Clinton White House.  That should be the subject of Ann Coulter’s next book.  I’ve already got the title for her.  Her last book was If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.

Ann needs to now write this book:  If Republicans Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.

[A Yogi Berra note.  There still is a chance for Romney, the last remaining hope.  If he can win enough delegates on Super Tuesday next week, combined with Huckabee winning Georgia and other southern states, it may still be possible for McCain to end up with only a plurality of delegates, not a majority, at the end of primary season.  An open convention is still possible, during which Republicans could come to their senses.  It’s not over until it’s over.]

I received this info from Paul Streitz, a Republican activist.

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By Paracelsus, February 3, 2008 at 11:44 pm #

Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans.  There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain.  But they are based on suspicions and circumstantial claims.  There has never been any hard direct evidence. 

What T says the CIA has is such evidence.  Its release would destroy McCain.  The threat of its release could force McCain to take a fall, blow the election and lose on purpose.  And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it?

Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968?

(Back in the 90s years after he retired,  if Cord drank a little too much Scotch, he would laugh derisively at those conspiratorialists who accused Bill Clinton of being connected with the KGB.

“They all darkly point to Bill’s participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow, and Prague while he was at Oxford. ‘Who could have paid for this?’, they ask. ‘It had to be the KGB!’ they claim.” Cord would shake his head. “What rot - we paid for it. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill’s been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since.”  Cord passed on in 2001.)

The small group of Senators and Congressmen who have been briefed by T have been unable to confirm with the CIA any details of its document swap with the GRU beyond an admission that such a swap “may have happened.”  They are very nervous about pursuing the matter any further.

The Clintons are not nervous.  They are utterly ruthless, and have buddies at Langley all too happy to help them.

It has been noted many times here in To The Point that while most folks think the CIA is a right-wing outfit, it is not. The CIA has been dominated by left-wing hyper-liberals for years.

The CIA is a left-wing, liberal outfit, and its main job for some time now is not attacking America’s enemies but conservatives in general and George W. Bush in particular.  The story is best told by friend, Ken Timmerman in his new book Shadow Warriors.

When the time is right, the Clintons will see to the leaking of the GRU archives on McCain to the media.  Bet on it, just as you can bet they’ll follow it up with media disclosures of the lady lobbyists in Washington having adulterous affairs with McCain.  (There are at least three of them; I know the name of one but I’m not going to put it in writing.)

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By Paracelsus, February 3, 2008 at 11:42 pm #

These reports had to be translated into Russian.  T, a bright teenager living in the GRU compound in Hanoi, had become fluent in Vietnamese, and ended up translating many of the reports and interrogators’ notes.

John McCain, flying his A-4 Skyhawk, was shot down over Hanoi on October 26, 1967.  Badly injured from the ejection, he was beaten and abused by his captors.  In July, 1968, his father, US Navy Admiral J. S. McCain, was made CINCPAC, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command, commander of all US military forces in the Vietnam theatre.  Upon learning this, the Vietnamese offered - according to McCain - to release him. 

McCain claims he refused, because he demanded all American POWs captured before him be released as well.  He thus remained a prisoner when he could have gone home, and was subjected to constant brutal beatings and torture for years:  that is the source of the “war-hero” saga making McCain a greater war-hero than any other American POW.

Yet the offer of release would had to have been approved by the GRU overseers of the North Vietnamese - and T does not recall any such offer being made.  T admits, however, that this took place before McCain was transferred to Hoa Loa prison, nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton” by the POWs.  T had only direct knowledge of what happened at Hoa Loa, and not the other prisons, where T’s father was in charge.

McCain was kept at the Hanoi Hilton from December 1969 until his release, along with all the remaining POWs, in March of 1973.  During this time, T translated all the Vietnamese interrogators’ notes and reports regarding John McCain.

According to T, they reveal that McCain had made an “accommodation” with his captors, and in exchange, T’s father saw that he was provided with an apartment in Hanoi and the services of two prostitutes.  Upon returning to his prison cell, he would say he had been held in solitary confinement.  That may be why so many of his fellow prisoners said later they saw so little of him at Hoa Loa.

The notes and reports written in Vietnamese were sent to Moscow, where T was a now a college student, for T’s translation into Russian, then placed into GRU archives.  That’s where they stayed until 1991.  Late that year, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the CIA and the GRU made a deal for a document swap. 

All of what it involved, T doesn’t know.  What T’s father, by now retired but still with substantial contacts within the GRU, did learn (and thus T learned) was that the swap included all of T’s translations.

In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain’s interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors.

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By Paracelsus, February 3, 2008 at 11:41 pm #

HOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY JOHN MCCAIN
Friends:
  Jack Wheeler is a Republican insider, extremely well connected and a most fascinating geopolitical analyst.  His website, tothepointnews.com, has a few accessible articles but most of his articles are only available by paid subscription only and links are not available. 
  As information, Wheeler is credited with being one of the architects of the Reagan Doctrine. 
This article is a shocking expose on John McCain.  Wheeler isn’t some fruitcake blogger making up stuff, he’s a powerful man who fully comprehends how power works in Washington.  He also knows a lot about the CIA and other agencies. 

HOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY JOHN MCCAIN     Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   31 January 2008  
The number of fellow Senators who think John McCain is psychologically unstable is large.  Some will admit it publicly, like Thad Cochran who says, “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine.”

Others relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum, or Jim Inhofe.  “The man is unhinged,” one Senator told me.  “He is frighteningly unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.”

That John McCain is clinically nuts is scary enough.  What worries a small group of GOP Senators and Congressmen even more is a deep and dark skeletal secret in McCain’s glorified past to which they are privy, and which the Clintons will use to blackmail him.

They have been having discussions with a Russian whom we’ll call “T” for Translator.  T’s father was the Soviet military intelligence officer who ran the “Hanoi Hilton” prison holding captured Americans during the Vietnam War.  One of those prisoners was John McCain.

The GRU—Glavnoje Razvedyvatel’noje Upravlenije or Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet (now Russian) Armed Forces - operated the entire North Vietnamese prison system holding American prisoners of war.  GRU officers, all of whom were Russians, oversaw the interrogation of every American POW.

The interrogations themselves were conducted by Vietnamese who spoke some English.  After each interrogation session, which could often include torturing the prisoners at the direction of the GRU officers, the Vietnamese interrogator would write a report of the session - in Vietnamese.

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By Maani, February 3, 2008 at 8:12 pm #

Outraged:

Perhaps even more ominous, it happened on the 75th anniversary of the day Hitler took power…

Spooky…

Peace.  (in some unforeseen future…)

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By Don Vito, February 3, 2008 at 6:24 pm #
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Chicken little asshole.  Siete stronzo.

Every item you post has nothing to do with informing, or at least entertaining, others.  Its all about you - look how smart I am, look how cutting-edge I am, look I’m how clever-yet-humble I am, stop reading this thread and LISTEN TO ME NOW!!!

I wish it was the beginning of the police state and I was the commander of the shock troops - first order of business is to beat senseless the socialist, whining, elitist fools like yourself and expose you as the frauds you so surely are.

Sono Siciliana.  Non mi rompere il cazzo o ti spacco un testa.

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By hs, February 3, 2008 at 5:05 pm #
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We used to say, “No, they can’t be that clever and underhanded…”  Actually, though, they have been for some time.  Recall that some months ago none other than George W. Bush predicted Hillary Clinton would be the candidate, but he made no prediction on the Republican side.  For me, this doesn’t pass the smell test.  Glad to see someone else shares my paranoia, Louise!

hs

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By Paracelsus, February 3, 2008 at 3:06 pm #

I am impressed by Coulter’s candid views on the world as these views are precisely those of the power elite. When she speaks of genocidal warefare being rained down upon the Arab world, you know that these are exactly the thoughts of our “betters”, who are essentially eugenecists.

Indeed I do believe that Hillary has the inside track as far as the military industrial complex is concerned. She does have the support of Ruppert Murdoch. She has been a guest of the Bilderberg Group. This is no small thing. Too many people here like to ignore me on this point.

The corporate chiefs are very comfortable with the Clintons, and I think it would take a miracle to not have HR Clinton elected as Prez. As I have read from many an IMF document the investment community wants a politically stable environment.

The cheap labor lobby and the ethnic identity groups have had long exerience working with Hillary on the amnesty issue. BC and HRC have been in the establishment long enough to be able to know most everyone’s skeleton bulging closets.

Through BC’s relationship with Bush senior, Hillary will have many shadow allies in the intelligence community. They would be able to count on her support of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and Homeland Security.

In all I am not surprised by Coulter’s support because it is the Republicans’ turn to run their dead horses. As to Democratic dead horses, ponder on Mondale, Dukakis, and Al Gore.

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By robert m puglia, February 3, 2008 at 1:32 pm #

amen and more than a few men; as for noxious blowhards several other examples come to mind but i am ignoring them too and they are going away.

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By Robert Levy, February 3, 2008 at 5:22 am #
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My take on this is to read it as face value. Unfortunately I have to
agree with Ann Coulter on this one. Hillary Clinton is in many ways
to the right of John McCain. The funny thing about this primary is
that both progressive Democrats and rad-con Republicans would be
disappointed if their respective front-runners were to win. In the
Dems’ case the threat of a Clinton nomination is also the danger of a
a major setback for the progressive wing of the party, in which we end
up with DINO. In the latter case, the Republicans nominate essentially
an independent who is in many respects to the left of Clinton(s), for
example his work with Russ Feingold on election reform, (but far to
the right of Obama, most strikingly on war-related issues), and they
would lose some of their party’s dynastic-ness to what they will
undoubtedly view as a RINO. (cynics may cast this as win-win—only
true if one sets one’s sights incredibly low!)

I strongly believe progressives should not participate in an election
for the evil of two lessers. If this thing ends up being DINO v. RINO
I will strongly support either Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader,
whichever is the candidate with more momentum. Honestly I’m more
excited about a McKinney run than Mr. I-missed-my-chance-
to-cash-in-on-my- awesome-legacy Ralph Nader.

However right now the most exciting and important candidate is of
course Barack Obama. Obama is my first choice, Kucinich second place,
McKinney third. If they all had the same chances, Obama would remain
my first choice because I believe leadership is about being able to
move people to act, being responsive, having a powerful workable and
working strategy that is more than a list of policy proposals (more
than the sum of its parts)—it is really about everything that the
loaded word “hope” entails. Gven our political milieau/ paradigm/
zeitgeist these other progressives and third-party candidates
represent ineffective grasping and hopelessness despite their
ambitious proposals. Obama’s hope is entirely tangible and grounded
in reality. It does not fight real-world constraints, but uses them
effectively—to brings us to a drastically different situation from
the supposed “real world” of the dominant political regime. An Obama
presidency will open the door to candidates who are as “radical” as
Kucinich to not be viewed as radical but as viable canidates, and
correspondingly for candidates like Bush to become “unviable”.

Rob

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By Outraged, February 3, 2008 at 4:02 am #

Do not fear…...Underdog is here.

Something’s up.  However, let’s just see how this plays out.  Remember Underdog…...he’s just a slight bit incompetent but hey, he always “gets his man”.

Everybody…and this is a serious point…everybody, is just flesh and blood.  That’s all they are, just flesh and blood.  I imagine that even rapists and torturer’s value their hide….don’t you?

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By Outraged, February 3, 2008 at 3:35 am #

Maani February 2:

Point taken.  I found it even more “incomprehensible” that this “coincidentally” coincides with those three cables that were cut in the Middle East.  Is it me, or is that “odd”?

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By Maani, February 3, 2008 at 1:43 am #

All:

Sorry to interrupt the debate.  This is URGENT news.  I kid you not.  Please go to the link after reading this post.

For the past year or more, I have been predicting that the “police state” would begin in NYC, where there has been various “testing” going on towards that end for some time, vis-à-vis law enforcement seeing just how far they could go, and how much they could get away with: increased police drills, random bag checks on the subways, limiting of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, etc.

The police state has finally arrived.  This is not a drill.  This is the real thing.  And you can be absolutely certain that it will not stop with NYC.  Other cities will follow suit, all in the name of “safety and security.”  Note that this was NOT a response to any specific threat, or even a perceived threat.  It was done for absolutely NO reason, other than to take a giant step forward toward totalitarianism.

We can continue to debate the merits or lack thereof of Hillary, Obama, McCain et al.  Meanwhile, this will spread, and the consequences will be dramatic.  And if you think I am overreacting, simply remember when I posted this when this comes to YOUR city or town.

Peace.  (Getting increasingly distant…)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/nyregion/02machinegun.html?scp=1&sq=baker&st=nyt

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By Louise, February 3, 2008 at 1:17 am #

hs, thanks for that insightfull observation!

I was beginning to feel like the legendary voice in the wilderness!

Why is it that even after eight years of hell we still can not understand republican duplicity when we see it?

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By jeff in chicago, February 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm #

uh…jack…she’s been elected twice to the senate? never won? try to keep up, will ya?

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By nrobi, February 2, 2008 at 10:49 pm #

The circus has finally come to town and the clowns are now the hottest attraction in the arena. Is this Ann Coulter’s way of ensuring that Barack Obama, whom she sees as no threat to the putative Republican candidates chances, is nominated for the Democratic ticket? 
I, would hope that she is above that kind of dirty politics, but yet, she has a track record of the most abusive and obnoxious political dirty tricks. Ann Coulter, is one truly for the books and without doubt the most immature and forgettable person in the pundit’s world.  Please, oh please, do not listen to her!!!

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By datadave, February 2, 2008 at 10:23 pm #
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This is not good for Hillary.

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By RAE, February 2, 2008 at 10:17 pm #

Who, in their right mind, gives a rat’s ass what Coulter thinks, says or does?

In my lifetime I can’t think of a more obnoxious big mouth airhead making headlines month in and month out.

It’s beyond me why anyone cares and it’s completely incomprehensible to me why ANY media gives her any notice whatsoever… including TRUTHDIG.

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By robert m puglia, February 2, 2008 at 7:45 pm #

it is unseemly to play up the antics of a cretinous misfortunate. ignore it and it will go away.

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By David Higgins, February 2, 2008 at 3:38 pm #
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What do you expect?  This is Coulter’s style.  To throw bombs that get picked up by the press.  This bomb - you silly twits - is aimed at Hilary first and McCain second.  It gives Hilary supporters panty peeing shivers; and it’s a shot at McCain’s “Liberalism” at the same time.

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By jdogg333, February 2, 2008 at 1:54 pm #

Haha, point taken. It’s just that Ann’s whole routine is based on saying outrageous things and drawing media attention to herself. On the other hand, a thorough ass whoopin’ may be in order at this point. Since she’s so gung-ho about the war, may she can go join up.
(Better watch what I say, O’Reilly might accuse this site of harboring neofacistcommiesecularprogressive america haters.)

Cheers

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By jackpine savage, February 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm #

I live amongst mostly conservatives, and because i am actually non-partisan (i.e. i hate all politicians equally, regardless of their gender, race, religion, or feelings on taxation) these folks feel comfortable talking to me.  And i can tell you one thing, they are not afraid of Hillary Clinton.

She is “battle-hardened” but it should be noted that she only survived those battles, she never won.

I have no idea where you live, or who your friends are…but i think you may be underestimating the visceral loathing that the name Clinton carries in middle-America.  This is not to say that she cannot win, or to say that “they” will not chew up Obama.  Only to the fact that many conservatives are licking their chops, thinking about another chance to chew on the Clintons.

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By cyrena, February 2, 2008 at 11:10 am #

Doc know it…

You’ve made some very insightful observations here.

Obama is actually at an advantage because he DOES know that he is carefully, (probably MORE carefully than any other politician has ever been), scrutinized. Anyone attempting to deny that is simply too far gone from reality.

Consequently, he IS careful, maybe more ‘cautious’ than many would understand, and his critics of course will chalk it up to something else.

But, for anyone who actually does care to do a ‘look-back’ on his history, and on the record stuff, he’s ALWAYS been ‘cautious’ in that he consistently questions himself.

What that results in, (which the average person still doesn’t ‘get’ and I see it every day) is the refusal to take anything for granted, or to ever “underestimate’ the opposition. In short, he’s avoided the ARROGANCE, and made himself not only humble, but available to the people, and approachable by the people. At the end of the day, it IS ‘we the people’ who will decide.

So yes, he IS careful now, and that may in fact be exactly what not only HE needs, but it’s what WE need as well!!

What harm is there in doing a little thought, BEFORE the action? Like, look before you cross the street? How fundamental is that?

And no…there is NO repug that can hold a candle to him on any front, (or back for that matter).

I do believe though, that the current neocons would far prefer to have Hillary to try to ‘defeat’ since it would basically mean that they would win anyway. Hillary is NOT a threat to the current gangsters, especially since their not running any of their own.

So, expect some repugs (in addition to this bozette coulter) to support Hillary over McCain as well. It’s just like their choice of one repug over another. Hillary doesn’t represent a bona fide democratic party agenda any more than her husband did.

The ‘kind word’ has always given them a ‘moderate’ or ‘centrist’ label. I always did myself, referring to Bill Clinton as the best repuglican president we’ve ever had.

SINCE then, Hillary has become even MORE wedded to the repug agenda than even her husband was, and far, far, far more of a HAWK. Imagine an Ann Coulter in the White House. Aside from the fact that Hillary LOOKS a whole lot better, (she actually looks female, and is an attractive woman) there isn’t a whole lot of difference. Hills a repug under democrat clothing.

Ann Coulter is downright scary…I’d sure hate to run
up on her without a weapon at my disposal.

I think he may have been initially surprised at the reall

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By cyrena, February 2, 2008 at 10:45 am #

Well jdogg333,

This is ONE method…

“.. I vote for the “ignore the child who’s throwing a tantrum” method of dealing with her and her ilk.”...

I’ve tried it myself, and sometimes it works. (depends on the kid actually).

When it doesn’t though, I’m all for whipping out the belt, or the stick, or whatever else it takes to administer a thorough ass whuppin’

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, February 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm #

Now, Obama is scrutinized and he knows it.  He’s young, maybe a little unsure and inexperienced. 

I look for his demeanor to completely change if he is elected to the White House.  I think it’s quite possible he will be empowered even beyond his own expectations.  He is a very smart man, but maybe a little careful right now.  I don’t know one Republican who can hold a candle to him in any way.
Look for a big change after he’s elected.

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By Louise, February 1, 2008 at 11:07 pm #

Lets get down on our knees and offer thanks. Safe in the knowledge that NEITHER candidate will want her!

Sssssssss! smile

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By jdogg333, February 1, 2008 at 10:25 pm #

“Keep moving folks, nothing to see here.” She is a ratings junkie and uses “attention seeking behavior.”
I vote for the “ignore the child who’s throwing a tantrum” method of dealing with her and her ilk. Cheers!

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By hs, February 1, 2008 at 9:49 pm #
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I actually think that something else may be going on.  If we look back we see that the Republicans got the Whitehouse and other gains by creating a marriage between country club Republicans and Christian conservatives.  That alliance has now fallen by the wayside, so a new alliance may be needed.

The national polling data tells us that Clinton is most likely to struggle against McCain.  Now if Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are ranting against McCain, and in Coulter’s case feigning support for Clinton, we have a new dynamic.  Republican core voters will support McCain, but what will the increasingly important independent voters do?  Well, a lot of them may say that weren’t so sold on Clinton, and if Coulter is for her and Rush Limbaugh and Coulter are railing against McCain, saying he is not a true conservative…well, guess what?  We have a new country club Republican and Independent voter alliance.

If this can be pulled off, we may get another Republican president, and 10 years from now when we see the damage we will look back and notice that they did it to us again.

hs

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By ElkoJohn, February 1, 2008 at 9:47 pm #

the bitch-factor overrides common sense every time

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By Maani, February 1, 2008 at 8:21 pm #

Jackpine:

Here I am!  Sorry I’m late…(LOL)

Actually, this one is easy.  Just as the New York Post endorsement of Obama was a not-so-subtle attempt to get people to vote for Hillary (don’t forget that Murdoch held a major fundraiser for her), Coulter’s endorsement of Hillary is a not-so-subtle attempt to get people to vote for Obama.

Why?  Because despite the hopelessly complicit MSM, pundits and polls, the GOP is FAR more scared of Hillary than of Obama.  And they WANT to take on Obama, because they know he is completely “untested” re their tactics, while Hillary is “battle-hardened.”

Think about it.  Obama bristles at the slightest thing - and from members of his OWN party!  In this regard, despite Obama’s braggadoccio about taking on McCain, his thin skin does not bode well where the right-wing’s blistering, withering, negative campaign tactics are concerned.

They will CHEW HIM UP.

Peace.

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By PatrickHenry, February 1, 2008 at 8:13 pm #

It would be interesting.

Irony would be male interns at a Whitehouse with Hillary in it.

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By Mordechai Shiblikov, February 1, 2008 at 7:35 pm #
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Coulter is one of the most illustrious magna cum laude graduates of the Leni Riefenstahl School of Amerikanische Politik.  Her twisted reasoning must be something like this: She says she will back Clinton hoping this will scare Clinton backers into voting for Obama whom she actually wants to get the Democratic nomination because she thinks it’s easier to defeat a black man than a white woman.  She keeps thinking about Harold Ford’s defeat in Tennessee in November 2006.  And this is what passes for sophisticated political reasoning among reactionaries and fascists.

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By peaceful34, February 1, 2008 at 7:12 pm #
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I fully agree with laughoutlout. He hit the nail on
the head. The elections is a theatrical show and a sham.  There is no real difference between the candidates whether Democrats or republicans. They are all representing big Money/Business. NO one is representing the average Joe and Jane.

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By thebeerdoctor, February 1, 2008 at 7:01 pm #

Ann: that woman needs a GOOD LONG HARD… talking to!

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By C Quil, February 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm #

The woman is clearly coming unstuck. Why do they keep putting her before the cameras? Maybe they hope she will come completely unglued on prime time. Fox’s ratings are tanking. This could give them the boost they need.

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By G.Anderson, February 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm #

Does it say anything about Hillary?

What about Romney? Why doesn’t she just support him then?

I have a feeling things are going to get crazy…er..

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By Fools me once, February 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm #
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She’s a man. baby!

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By lawlessone, February 1, 2008 at 5:22 pm #
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Ann Coulter has a right of free speech. 

But, would you please stop giving her inanities a national platform through Truthdig?  It legitimizes her obsessions and perverts your own legitimacy.  Do you really want to be like Fox “News”?

Moreover, quoting Ann Coulter on any political question is like seeking serious political advice from the Three Stooges.  At least the Three Stooges were occasionally funny and their proposals for gratuitous violence could not actually harm anyone who hadn’t volunteered and been paid as an actor to receive it.

If you feel you “have to” give her nonsense space in Truthdig for some reason, then stop showing her photo.  Her words become even more offensive and rendered absurd when they are not juxtapositioned with a visual of her as an iconic cute blond type.

Or, if you insist upon a photo, tell her she does not get space unless she poses nude with a cash register.  Then, your readers will both know what she really is and might get some mild entertainment value out of it.

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By Sol, February 1, 2008 at 4:57 pm #

Gosh one has to put up with this idiot all the time and now she is on the attack again to sell more of her books. My goodness, why do we pay so much attention to these people? Her last name should be Madonna.

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By minamoto no taira, February 1, 2008 at 4:52 pm #

Or is there anything more bizarre than this political Twilight Zone? Stuff like this makes me glad I’m not American.

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By Tahut, February 1, 2008 at 4:30 pm #
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This could really be fun, especially if Miss Hilary picks up on this and uses it to her advantage to ridicule the GOP. Just think, The “Whore the GOP Adores” volunteering and Hilary putting her down because she prefers only people who are credible and honest to work on her campaign.

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By P. T., February 1, 2008 at 4:28 pm #

She is more comfortable with the chickenhawk crowd.

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By sheila, February 1, 2008 at 4:16 pm #
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Quite a slam at Hillary.  Hillary and John McCain have the same record in the Senate .  If I were Obama I would use this endorsement to point out how uber righties are hoping for Clinton.

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By Saddler, February 1, 2008 at 4:13 pm #

For a moment I thought I was looking at the Huffington Post, with this kind of sensational, media-centered story taking up such a large portion of the page.

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By laughoutloud, February 1, 2008 at 3:39 pm #
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as i’ve said before, conservatives want clinton in the whitehouse.  if they’re going to lose it, they want to lose it to hillary because she is going to ensure that the rich stay rich and the poor stay where they are. 

as i’ve also said previously, the election is not a partisan issue, its a class issue, and the rich are going to win thanks to hillary. 

Nobody likes to play for a losing team.  Her husband understood that, and he was a master at playing the people, very impressive.

i don’t understand how all the lefty bloggers here who seem to be intelligent can’t see it.  bush-clinton-bush-clinton means good news for the elite ruling class.  go hillary!

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By dasm, February 1, 2008 at 3:28 pm #
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If Coulter ever actually voted for a Democrat, or a woman for that matter (remember her comments saying women shouldn’t be able to vote at all), she’d melt.

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By Thomas Billis, February 1, 2008 at 3:07 pm #

I thought that Truthdig was into serious commentary.To waste space on something Coulter says is a huge disappointment to me.I will attribute this lapse to office drinking but please do not let it happen again.

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By jackpine savage, February 1, 2008 at 2:45 pm #

I must have come back during the change.  My apologies, TruthDig.

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By jackpine savage, February 1, 2008 at 2:44 pm #

So Truthdig takes down the A/V booth post about the Democratic debate to chum the waters with this Ann Coulter post?

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By DennisD, February 1, 2008 at 12:26 pm #
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I thought Coulter was safely locked away in Toon Town with no access to the media. Then again FUX isn’t really the media is it.

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By jackpine savage, February 1, 2008 at 12:08 pm #

I can’t wait to see how Maani spins this one for the candidate who can do no wrong and has no faults.

But the larger question is, will all these rabid right wingers who hate McCain so (Limbaugh and others have said basically the same thing) actually not vote for him if he is the candidate?  Or are they just trying to scare the base to influence the primary voters?

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By terri kionka, February 1, 2008 at 11:48 am #
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Any Democrat who takes this seriously is in the same league as Coulter herself. The neoCons are scared silly of Hillary Clinton and so she’s trying scare the Democrats and Independents. The telling phrase “she’s more conservative than John McCain.” Coulter has picked this up from the liberal blogs and is trying to capitalize on it.

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By weather, February 1, 2008 at 10:52 am #
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an empty skirt on the otherside of a microphone, who’s invective speaks for no one who matters.

In another time and space, she’d be a floor mgr. at Walmart mixing her Red Bull w/vodka and fudging her hours to make payments on her Hummer.

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By Rob, February 1, 2008 at 10:26 am #
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It was actually somewhat relieving to hear Ann state her disdain for that little, old SOB McAmnesty.  I too have been telling myself if the supporter of the shamnisty bill is the Republican nomanee, I have felt that defeating him by voting for the demoncrat would be justified.  I HATE McAmnesty and would rather have a demoncrat screw things up for four years and have a second chance then let that fool McAmnesty win!

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By Grousefeather, February 1, 2008 at 10:11 am #
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There’s a concerted propaganda effort by the right wing Republicans to paint McCain as too liberal for the party. It’s total bullshit and an effort to lure naive voters who are sick of conservatives into supporting him. It’s another case of the Republicans putting another wolf in sheeps clothing, again!  McCain is one of the most rabid fascists in American politics today and all efforts to paint him as anything else should be reputiated. This country has had enough of violent and menevolent Republican idealogy and McCain should be kept in a cage.

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By Aegrus, February 1, 2008 at 10:05 am #

What an endorsement! It shouldn’t be surprising Coulter would support a Democratic candidate because it is quite clear the Republicans have less than a snow cone’s chance in hell of winning the Presidency. Seeing Ann go on like this is truly shaking my core with laughter, though! haha

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By Expat, February 1, 2008 at 9:55 am #

^ got to be kidding.  Hillary, look out the kiss of death is on the way.  Ann Coulter who?  Oh, please!

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By Brons, February 1, 2008 at 9:18 am #
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Coulter’s 15 minutes have long passed!

I wouldn’t take anything she has to say seriously!

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By Unapologetic Liberal, February 1, 2008 at 8:55 am #

To borrow from the old saying: the enemy of a bile-drooling egomaniacal media whore is my friend.  Her proclaimed enmity is a ringing endorsement (and if it comes down to Clinton-McCain, this democrat will be probably be pulling for McCain).

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