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Hell has frozen over, and the devil is digging his grave.
Conservative pundit, lawyer and columnist Ann Coulter shocked Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes Thursday night on their show when she announced she will campaign for Hillary Clinton if John McCain is the Republican presidential nominee.
Coulter’s resume includes best-selling books such as “Slander: Liberal Lies Against the American Right,” “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must),” “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans” and “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.”
Of course, there’s a catch.
“If (McCain) is our candidate,” Coulter told Hannity, “then Hillary’s gonna be our girl, Sean, because she’s more conservative than he is.”
Coulter said she thinks Clinton would be more effective in fighting the war on terror. Specifically, McCain has come out adamantly against using torture in interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and Clinton has not. Silence is not necessarily an endorsement, but McCain’s opposition to torture is no surprise given his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Normally one should pay no extra attention to Coulter, whose past attention-whoring pearls of wisdom include “We just want Jews to be perfected” and “We should invade (Muslim) countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” but this time her views hold significance.
One of the most insanely conservative commentators in America went on Fox News to speak out against the probable Republican nominee, and the conservative host next to her did little to rebuke her. McCain’s most rabid fans cannot compete with the legions of Barack Obama supporters, 13,000 of whom attended a rally for him in Boise this weekend.
Whether the Democratic nominee is Clinton or Obama, the current political atmosphere in America strongly suggests one of them will be president a year from now.
Ron Paul obviously is not going to win the Republican nomination, but his supporters are extremely vocal and know how to promote a message of change. How likely is it these anti-war Republicans and independents will back McCain, who is undeniably the most pro-war, status quo-supporting presidential candidate?
Idaho Democrats will choose between Clinton and Obama tonight. In Moscow, the caucus will be 7 p.m. at the Latah County Fairgrounds. Idaho’s four delegates may not amount to much, but then again, Obama bothered to come here, and look how many individuals attended. If you are a liberal and agree with Coulter and think Clinton is more conservative than McCain, then caucus for Obama.
Idaho Republicans have to wait until May 27 to choose their candidate, and by that time the nominee may have been decided de facto by plurality or even a landslide majority. Mitt Romney must wish Idaho, a Mormon stronghold, came earlier in the contest.
The only tragedy about our method of selecting the party nominees is that by the time Super Tuesday (and May 27) rolls around, the pool has been reduced to only two candidates. However, that may be an advantage because it gives Idaho a higher chance of giving support to the eventual winner instead of someone who dropped out after a few states were lost.
As most Idaho liberals can attest, anything that makes our state look a little more mainstream and a little less backwoods in the eyes of the rest of the nation is a worthy pursuit.
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