Ann Unleashed

You all know how much I like Ann Coulter and find her insightful as well as hilarious. She has the uncanny ability to drive liberals nuts. She really, REALLY, doesn't like John McCain, to the point where on Hannity & Colmes she said she would campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain is the Republican nominee. Wow. Here is her most recent column, outlining her case against John McCain.

The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) 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.

I have to disagree with her there...as much as I dislike McCain, as much as I'm hoping and praying that Romney surges on Tuesday and goes on to win the nomination, I cannot say that I'd rather deal with President Hillary or President Obama. That thought sickens me. Here is the video where Coulter even says that Hillary Clinton is more conservative than John McCain. Okay, I think she's lost it there...I still think he would be better on national defense, there is no question he would be better on the issue of life, and I think he would appoint better judges than Hillary. Other than that, well, I guess there may not be a whole lot of difference.

Come on, Mitt, you gotta win this thing...

JASmius adds: Preator Hewitt agrees.  But I gotta say, though she expressed her sentiments in characteristically overflamboyant fashion (I rather doubt Ann would really campaign for the Empress), I have to side with Ms. Coulter.  A McCain presidency would be a bigger disaster for the GOP than a landslide defeat in November, because it would functionally disenfranchise the Right for the foreseeable future.  You'd have overwhelming Democrat majorities in Congress and a Democrat in everything but name in the White House siding with them.  It'd guarantee the Reagan Coalition a permanent rivening and inescapable political death, as well as a left-wing dynasty for decades to come.

Of course, some may argue that a Donk victory this November could bring about the destruction of the nation itself as we have known it for over two centuries.  And, indeed, it could; but I tend to believe that a McCain presidency would be no different even on national security.  First, the Dems will have the numbers to squelch any further military campaigns that "Sailor" would conceivably want to undertake; if he undertook them anyway (which he would not - it'd disturb all that "bipartisan comity" he likes so much) they'd impeach his ass.  Second, McCain is already as bad as the Dems are on homeland security with his anti-"torture" fetish and drive to close Gitmo and turn loose all the jihadis there into our civilian criminal justice system.  Third, as Mark Levin has pointed out the last couple of radio shows, where was Darth Queeg standing up for the military when Bill Clinton was slashing and burning the Pentagon budget during the '90s?  Where were his warnings from the wilderness about the rise of al Qaeda that led to the 9/11 attacks?

The brutal reality is we're entering a serious window of vulnerability in the next few years regardless of who wins in November.  Iran will have their own nuclear weapons as early as six months from now, al Qaeda is inexorably taking over Pakistan (and its existing nuclear arsenal along with it), and terrorist "chatter" has been rampant for months.  All it takes is for one plot to succeed, one subway gas attack or suitcase nuke, and in the bitterly divided political landscape of the present, America would shatter into internecine chaos.  Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would do nothing to stop it, and even if John McCain were so inclined - and frankly, I don't trust him to be - congressional Dems would never let him.

But all of the above plumbs down to the equally brutal reality that a McCain nomination presages precisely that massive, worse-than-Goldwater-in-1964 landslide GOP defeat, as there's no way on God's green Earth that the Republican base will EVER unify behind him and mobilize to the level necessary to counter the rabid Donk fifth column fringe.  McCain-Huckabee '08 will be Dole-Kemp '96 times ten.  Only lack of inspiration and a sense of pervasive doom will be supplanted by mutual, irreconcilable hostility.

I'm not a subscriber to the "win by losing" template.  But in this case, I have to make an exception.  Remember the disarray of 1992, and the massive comeback in 1994.

Only in this case, "survive by losing" may be more appropriate.