The American Mind

Why do they even bother calling that show “Hannity and Colmes?” “Hrm, let’s cast a weasel who never talks as the ‘liberal’ opposite our perfectly coiffed conservative talkbox and call it ‘fair and balanced’ discussion.”

I never thought i’d say this, but when Coulter called Hillary “conservative” i found myself agreeing with her!

Alan Colmes is a pushover. Fox News could ditch him and the show would be ten times better.

Love her or hate her, her comments reflect the tragedy of our system for choosing presidents. McCain is the least worthy (ignoring the lunatic Ron Paul) GOP contender in the race.

The idea that this repugnant, annoying, ignorant, sell-out is going to be our party’s nominee – is literally, revolting.

Coulter, as always went over the top, but her frustration with this system is well taken.

Sean, any inside thoughts or reflections on the possibility or plausibility of a McCain / Thompson ticket? Assuming McCain gets the nod, that is.

Conservatives Against McCain…

Judging by the enemies he’s making, I’m liking John McCain more with each passing day.
Ann Coulter says she’d “campaign for” Hillary Clinton, who she thinks “is more conservative.”

Meanwhile, Glenn Beck is…

Why is that so strange? Just like Hillary isn’t all that different from Bush, neither is John McCain. You act like voting for Hillary over McCain would be like choosing one wildly different person vs another. They’re so close, it almost doesn’t matter.

And if Republicans voting for Hillary over McCain is what it takes to finally snap the Republican party into actually being Conservative, then so be it. Granted, I doubt that would be enough to do it, but even Ann Coulter can dream can’t she?

Besides… why were you listening to her anyway? I thought we all agreed to mute the television when she was on.

Witty rebutal. Don’t agree with Ann Coulter, call her an idiot.

The facts are that the Clintons have long been noted as liars. They used to be adept liars. Now they are just bad liars. Yet the Clinton seem to be aware that they are lying.

In contrast, John McCain dismisses comments which he can no longer remember, or simply wishes not to remember as lies. It a chiling arguement Coulter makes that McCain lies more than the Clintons do. McCain lied, or forgot, about not knowing economics, about calling Sam Alito too conservative. McCain is starting to become like Bobby Byrd, whited haired and senile.

Hey Sean:

Some caller on Glenn Beck’s show said that Fred was endorsing McCain. Please tell me that’s not true!!!!

Why is that so strange? Just like Hillary isn’t all that different from Bush, neither is John McCain. You act like voting for Hillary over McCain would be like choosing one wildly different person vs another. They’re so close, it almost doesn’t matter.

*ding*ding*ding*

100% correct. Hell, i don’t even trust Hillary to withdraw troops from Iraq (which i’m sure is a mark in her favor with y’all, but you get my point).

Most Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, but that is more evident than usual with Hillary and McCain.

Ann is sticking up for “her” man Romney.

McCain will not be the next president. If he wins the nomination all of the mainstream media affection he receives today will immediately be exchanged for full unbridled support of the democrat nominee. Take action now and spread the word. A vote for Huckabee on Super Tuesday is equal to a vote for McCain. I just sent the following message to the Huckabee camp. I urge you all to do the same and pass this on to your friends to have them do the same.

“Dear Mr. Huckabee,

You appear to be a man of honor and of your word. You assert that you are a conservative, practicing the ideas and principles that were brought into the mainstream body politic by Ronald Reagan. As you appear to be a man of principle who seeks to serve our nation and the interests of its people above your own personal interests, I would like to make one request of you. Please withdraw from the race prior to Super Tuesday.

If the nation’s interests are more important to you than personal power, then you will seriously consider, and respond affirmatively to this request. As you are aware, you are trailing in the polls and stand not to do well enough on Super Tuesday to do anything other than take votes away from other candidates. Unfortunately, the other candidate you will be take the most votes from is the only one still viable that attempts to represent the same conservative values you espouse. In short a vote for you on Super Tuesday in reality is a vote for John McCain.

John McCain will not be our next president. Even if he receives the nomination. He is too liberal to motivate the conservative base, and the mainstream media favoritism he is receiving currently will dry up completely in the general election against the candidate of the mainstream media’s favorite party, the democrats.

So you see you hold the power currently to make or break this election for the Republican party and for the welfare of our nation. If you truly are the man of conviction that you appear to be and care for your fellow man the way Christ has taught us to, you will take the soonest opportunity to announce your withdrawal from the race, so that conservative voters can have a clear choice on Super Tuesday and not be divided. Any action to continue your campaign beyond this point can be considered as evidence that you put your want for personal power above principle and the needs of the people of the United States. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,”

Calling Coulter names and excluding her through disinvitation?

Sean, have you gone all seriously Washington on us? Disagree with what she says or don’t take her seriously, but come on. Officially an idiot, hrm.

If Coulter were smart enough to endorse Hillary in order to hurt Hillary, I could see this. But it’s just pure spite, something Coulter is best at.

As for the letter to Huckabee’s campaign, I hope he treats it with the complete contempt it deserves. What a load of garbage. Obviously, the Romneylans can’t win this battle on their own merit. I loved the line that McCain is “too liberal to motivate the conservative base”. How stupid do they think real conservatives are? Romney’s record is liberal to the core.

Nick, you let your anti-party feelings cloud your judgment. Hillary and McCain are different beasts. One prime example: federal judges. Can you imagine President Clinton nominating a Roberts or Alito? If you can get into the fiction business because you’ve got a great imagination.

Brian, my dislike for Coulter is many years in the making. She adds little to the conservative movement. Her last two CPAC appearances have been an embarrassment. So no, my location of residence means little for my feelings for the unfunny harpy.

DavidL, my reply wasn’t supposed to be “witty.” You should be used to the clunky approach. It’s what Coulter uses regularly.

Stephanie, I have no contact with Sen. Thompson. I’ll learn about any endorsement when I read along with the rest of the public.

Can you imagine John McCain appointing a conservative judge who would properly rule that McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional? Hell… the man was on the Gang of 14!

Nick, you’re missing the point that on judges there is a tangible difference in the types McCain would appoint versus the types Clinton would appoint.

On any single issue a court can and will mess up. Reagan messed up with Justice O’Connor and H.W. Bush messed up with Souter. Common sense screams that McCain would be more likely to nominate strict constructionists than would Clinton.

All this means for me I can vote for McCain in November. It doesn’t mean I’ll volunteer or donate to him. He has to bridge the gap he created with conservatives. But I’m certainly not as ridiculous as Coulter who prefers Clinton to McCain.

Which in an of itself is just sad. We cry and scream at how the judiciary is given more weight and importance than the legislature and executive branches… about judicial activism… and what do you do.

You make your choice based on the type of judge he’d nominate.

No wonder the parties are so jacked.

I think this boils down to the definition of “Conservative.” It is used with wild abandon, but I believe that there is little agreement on what it means.

I have taken to calling myself a reactionary - I want to rewind a great deal of what has been undertaken by the federal government (or more simply prohibit them from taking up most things at all - ain’t their darned business. Oh crap, now I sound like a Ronulan.)

Our problem is that we have these discussions on the web/TV/Radio when we should be sitting down at a taven or public house for several Saturdays in succession to deal with any one issue.

We get crappy governance because we do too much of it and attend to too little of it.

What has this to do with Ann. Oh, she’s becoming a harpy like Hillary to my ears. Yes, I agree with her stands in general, but the tone is for TV. It is intended to punch through. I don’t think that Ann would last long in a long running, considered debate where yelling is not the primary debating method.

McCain? He is a lot more like Nixon than Reagan (anybody else remember his Wage and Price Controls? They were straight from the Left end of the spectrum.)

The Clintons are corrupt. So is McCain - forgotten the S and L collapse have we?

Fred is straight up, get ‘er done and a good man.

I will vote for him on Tuesday (he is still on my ballot) and in November? Maybe a trip to the range would be a better use of my time.

Well, sometimes Ann is all rhetorical, provocative frosting–and no cake. Her HRC vs. McCain remarks appeared, to me, to contain some cake.

After all, the two theoretical selling points on McCain are (1) the supposition that he’ll prosecute the WoT more vigorously than Clinton would, and (2) the issue of appointing justices.

I’m not positive about (1), and even (2) leaves me with some doubts. After all, where would a President McCain find a strict constructionist judge who would still leave what’s left of McCain-Feingold intact?

I’m just not convinced he WOULD be significantly better than HRC.

Hell… the man was on the Gang of 14!

Are you guys still pissed about the Gang of 14 crap? Despite the fact that if it weren’t for them, the Senate filibuster your side has been relying on to obstruct the Democratic agenda wouldn’t have been available?

I love watching the ignoramuses in your party eat their own, Sean.

Silly me, I don’t find Coulter’s comment disturbing at all. I see her remarks as a loud wake-up call to the seemingly sleeping conservatives.

(To be clear, I shan’t work for Hellery, but I will never - ever - vote for Insane McCain. If need be, I will sit out, a first since I was aged enough to vote.)

The simple question Coulter proposes is, why would one back one fraud and liar over another? The easy answer is, because in choosing one might choose a known traitor (to the cause).

Pick Fraud+Liar+KnownEnemy or Fraud+Liar+Traitor.

To all you you professed Cons, repeat after me: “McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Liebermann,McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Liebermann, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Liebermann”

Then g’head, pick.

Side Bar:

Chancellor sez: “How stupid do they think real conservatives are? Romney’s record is liberal to the core.”

Quite right and that’s the stick in the eye; conservatives have never had a horse in this race.

Indeed, the liberal wing of the GOP is trying hard to re-write conservatism to their view. McCain’s new “True Conservative” toob commercial is certainly good comedy, though (unintended biting sarcasm always is).

What is fascinating is, with the Huckster busted and a two-man race emerged, watching all the so-called “Republicans” now coming out for McCain: Roody hisself, Schwanzenagger, even the Con-Icon Ted Olson.

It leaves me to wonder: was the Reagan Revolution made up of mostly hangers-on and band-wagoners?

MjM writes, “conservatives have never had a horse in this race.” They did. It’s just conservatives griped they didn’t like how Fred Thompson campaigned.

Since none of us can peer into alternative universes and glimpse at how a President McCain or a President Clinton would behave we have to guess probabilities. Who’s more likely to appoint good, conservative judges? Who’s more likely to adequately fight and win the Iraq War? Even if the probability for Clinton on both is 45% conservatives should still vote for McCain if they think he’s 46% more likely to do both.

In other words you don’t have to have much faith in McCain to vote for him. You just have to think he’s marginally better than Clinton. If Coulter would have paid attention to some of her college math courses (and was intellectually honest) she’d get that.

You just have to think he’s marginally better than Clinton.

Heh. Not to put words in your mouth, but that sounds dangerously close to “anyone but Clinton.” And as i kept hearing from the right-wingers four years ago…elections aren’t won by people who vote against someone, they’re won by people who vote for someone. I mean, that’s what y’all said, right?

This thread has me convinced that a Democrat’s taking the White House in November. I just pray to god it’s not Hillary.

Sean sez: “They did. It’s just conservatives griped they didn’t like how Fred Thompson campaigned.”

Does not one have to actually race to be IN the race?

Thompson signed up but didn’t _show_ up. It was incredibly disheartening to watch him just mosey along as if his folksy charm was going save him. Maybe he’s just to nice of a fella, but sometimes you gotta bite.