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I
read this morning that Ann Coulter would rather support Hillary Clinton
than John McCain, and my reaction was ‘that’s fine with me.’ I
don’t mind Ann Coulter abandoning the Republican nominee, not because
she’s a conservative, but because she is often mean-spirited. One
doesn’t have to be Liberal to think her attacks on the 9/11 widows
were nasty and unnecessary. This just highlights the fact that protests
of late about John McCain aren’t coming from pure conservatives,
they’re coming from angry conservatives. They’re coming from
many of the radio talk personalities that belittle people with opposing
opinions. However, John McCain’s potential nomination is not a sign
that Republican are turning away conservative politics, it’s a sign
that they are turning away from the bitter partisanship that has fueled
political discourse over the last two decades. The remark from Ann Coulter
points to the fact that there are people both are the far right and the
far left that feed off of this nastiness that has come with the successive
presidencies of Bush/Clinton/Bush possibly Clinton again. A vote for John
McCain doesn’t betray conservative ideals, it’s a vote for
changing the tone in Washington. John McCain’s appeal to Independents
stems from the fact that he’s respectful with people who disagree
with him, and I think that’s a change that should be welcomed in
Washington regardless of ones political leanings.