NewsMax.com has an interview of Ann Coulter conducted by Phillip Brennan titled “Ann Coulter Vows to Stop ‘President McCain.”
In this interview Ann states: “McCain’s record is as bad and liberal as Hillary’s.” The American Conservative Union rates Senators McCain and Clinton’s 2006 legislative voting record 65 and 8 respectively. While I agree that Senator McCain leaves much to be desired when it comes to the conservative agenda, to equate McCain to Clinton’s liberalism is at best a stretch and at worst hysteric hyperbole.
Ann says, “And don’t tell me McCain is better on the war. Campaigning in front of Code Pink types, Hillary has repeatedly said she will hit terrorists hard, and hedged her bets (thereby losing votes) on whether she’d execute a quick pullout from Iraq.”
Is Ann actually praising Hillary?!! Ann, may I recommend a website to you? On this website you will find the following statement: Starting Phased Redeployment within Hillary’s First Days in Office. What is this website you ask? It is the Issues Section on the Hillary For President website!
Regardless of the military situation in Iraq, Hillary states on her website, “She would direct them to draw up a clear, viable plan to bring our troops home starting with the first 60 days of her Administration.”
Comparatively, on John McCain’s website we read, “A greater military commitment now is necessary if we are to achieve long-term success in Iraq.”
Sorry Ann, and despite your admonition “And don’t tell me McCain is better on the war,” it is clear that McCain is better on the war; he doesn’t want to “cut and run” from Iraq; Hillary does.
As to whether the GOP will lose its soul if it nominates McCain, Coulter replies, “Neither the Republican Party nor the nation will be likely to recover inasmuch as it will lead to an end to a takeover by Mexico and 30 years of Democratic rule.” Does she really believe this? Is she saying that the already turning tide within the conservative movement, the ever-growing disenchantment with the present-day conservative leaders will not result in a new conservative revolution? If she truly believes this she needs some new tea leaves.
Clearly, the GOP is in a shambles as is the conservative movement, but unlike we did after 1964 with Goldwater’s loss, I do not believe that it will take conservatives some 26 years to coalesce around a strong conservative candidate.
The advent of the Internet in general and blogs specifically will allow a strong grassroots movement to raise up and demand that the GOP start nominating and supporting true conservative candidates. That is already apparent with such organizations as TheVanguard.org (the sponsor of this blog) and the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA).
It is apparent from all the gnashing of teeth in the conservative movement that we are going to have to re-look our dependency on talk radio, conservative punditry, and Christian monolithic groups to do our bidding for us.
That’s what I will be writing about in the future.
Normally I like Ann a lot, but in this case, I think she’s lost her marbles. Dave, this whole election thing is getting me down. Not just with the state of the GOP, but in general- how people can think people like obama and billary can do well for this country is beyond me. The way I see it- if the gop wins,we’ll pretty much have business as usal in Washington- but if obama wins, we’ll have amnesty, drivers licenses and free everything for illegals, or in billery’s case- forced socialist healthcare. I don’t really want business as usual- can’t afford tax hikes, can’t stand to see such huge gov’nt waste- but can’t even fathom the other. God Bless you Dave- I’ll keep on praying~ Carolyn
I have been following elections for 50 years and have never encountered such a critical event as the 2008 presidential election. I understand where Ann is coming from, but I will not vote for Hiliary or Obama. I do believe that because Sen. Clinton desires popularity with power, she would be on a relatively “short chain” if elected. She would push for socialized healthcare, but if ‘we the people’ would follow through and vote a GOP congress back into power , I believe this can could be stopped. I have many concerns about Obama. On his team are members of the NOI and his church has honored Farakan. These Islamic ties and his known agenda is disturbing. Both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama are pro-death candidates and I can not vote for anyone who is in favor of abortions. Ann Coulter is backing Gov. Romney. I can not share her decision. Gov. Romney, in my humble opinion, serves a foreign god and I am perplexed that at one time he supported abortion rights. Sen. McCain has not been an upright, honest individual in his bid for the presidency and this too concerns me. With Sen. McCain we will have amnesty, which I believe is a blatant disregard for our laws. So, how do we resolve this dilemma? As believers in Christ Jesus I believe we should be in fervent, earnest prayer for our nation. For me, personally, as you indicated you will Dave, I plan to vote for Fred Thompson in the primary. I will pray and ask the Lord’s guidence in making a sound decision, after the convention. I would also like to say that I believe we may see a very heated convention and things that appear decided after the primaries may take a different turn of events. I think I would welcome some heated, profound, logical debate at the convention. I plead with God’s children to pray, particularly pray that our candidates will be honest, I see to much lying in all the campaigns and our God can not honor a liar. Our nation, under God, is at stake.
Ann has been in Romney’s pcoket for six months. I know that because she told me. She has repeatedly been given information about Romney’s support for gun control, gay programs in the schools, taxes, state funding of abortion and even how Romney initiated homosexual marraige in Massachusetts. She willfully and purposely withheld this info from her columns, just as Hannity, Limbaugh, Ingraham and other have also done.
The manipulation by our “leaders” this election cycle has been shocking and it time to quit listening and reading to those who have an agenda which is not always in the best interest of conservatism.
Ann is certainly off the deep end when it comes to McCain’s record
on the war, but we do have a serious problem.
McCain’s nomination would likely cause many Republicans not to vote
which will ensure a Democratic presidency. Even if McCain was to
win the Presidency, we have the Amnesty problem. He will give the
illegals Amnesty. He even states it in recent debates, but calls it
compassion. He talks about securing the borders first saying that
he heard Americans, but avoids what to do with the rest of them.
If Amnesty happens, it will almost ensure Democratic control for
many years. Imagine the 10 million illegals (conservative number)
becoming citizens. Many say that 30 million more will follow when
that happens as a result of the family tie.
ALL OF THESE WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT. The Republican Party could
be destroyed as we know it. To some degree, I agree with Ann when
it comes to this point.
God Help Us!