Coulter on McCain: Ready, set, crazy!
This is something I don’t quite understand. I can understand the objections to McCain’s policies, which I definitely share, and I even sympathise with the deep-seated personal dislike of the man that so many have. But how confused must you be, if you are a pro-torture, pro-war jingo (or is that jingoess in her case?), to say that you would sooner side with Hillary Clinton than John McCain? This is absolutely batty. Who would better suit the pro-war crowd than an inflexible, unbalanced and angry old man who has nothing to lose? I wouldn’t dispute Clinton’s hawkish inclinations, and I think her opposition to Iraq is purely opportunistic and reflects nothing about her foreign policy views, which are interventionist and generally quite dangerous, but if you are a hawk it is inconceivable that you would prefer her to him.
Via Ross
Update: Suddenly Hewitt has discovered the importance of rationality in voting!
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February 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
jaloren
I too was shocked by Coulter’s support for Hillary.
Unlike my progressive brethren, I never considered Coulter stupid. Mendacious and thuggish yes, but not stupid. She always struck me as a savvy actor that manipulated the theater to her benefit.
So when she announces that she favors hillary over McCain I suspect, without any way of knowing for sure, that she had ulterior motives.
Either she was attempting to derail McCain’s ambitions or she was attempting to derail Hillary’s. Oddly, and perhaps brilliantly enough, her rhetoric has the effect of doing both.
Hillary wants Coulter’s support like she wants a bullet to the head. And the “McCain is more liberal than hillary” meme has been circulating among conservatives for a while now. Coulter is merely pushing that meme further.