Those who read here often know I like Ann Coulter.  She is frank and harsh but more often then not, right on the mark when she goes after the liberals in America.

But not infallible, as this piece shows.  In this article she attacks people who dislike the front runners (Guliani and Romney) for not being conservative enough and are gravitating to Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

I admit that neither of these two are flashy and they are certainly not neo cons, but they are often solid and sensible, and do reflect conservative values.  I think that she is missing that in her desire to promote a hardline conservative candidate. 

And in Thompson's case, her dislike of him is centrally based on his vote in the Clinton impeachment, and in my opinion, she is cutting off her nose to spite her face.

Fred Sawyer and Huckabee Finn

Conservatives unhappy with our Republican presidential candidates seem to be drifting aimlessly toward Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee in the misguided belief that these candidates are more conservative than Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. This is like breaking up with Bobby Brown so you can date Phil Spector.

On illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Tom Tancredo. He has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before."

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Huckabee also joined with impeached president Bill Clinton in a campaign against childhood obesity. What, O.J. wasn't available?

Question:  Was childhood obesity a valid issue or not?

Bill and Mike's excellent adventure lasted about one week in May 2005 — or just long enough to burnish the image of the president who committed perjury and obstruction of justice in a civil rights suit against him, molested the help and was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick.

Here comes her agenda.

In 1999, Sen. Fred Thompson joined legal giants like Sens. Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to vote against removing Bill Clinton from office for perjury.

Thompson, whom President Nixon once called "dumb as hell," claimed to have carefully studied the Constitution and determined that perjury by the president of the United States did not constitute "high crimes and misdemeanors." He must have been looking at one of those living, breathing Constitutions we've heard so much about.

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But, as The New York Times recently said, Thompson "agonized over what he saw as two 'bad choices.'"

What bad choices? Punishing a multiple felon or not punishing him? This wasn't exactly a job for King Solomon, pal.

The Times reported that calls from Thompson's Tennessee constituents showed that they "overwhelmingly favored removing President Bill Clinton from office."

So Thompson could either: (1) Follow the Constitution and make his constituents happy or, (2) disregard the Constitution and make his Hollywood friends happy.

Only a handful of Republicans voted against all law and reason to keep Clinton in office, and only one of them was from Tennessee.

And had they ALL voted for removal, it would have NOT made a difference, as they were no where close to reaching a 67 vote majority required. 

I won't defend his vote, he made the choice as he saw fit.  Let him answer to it or not.

But all this deep seated bitterness on her part is useless.  So he cast his essentially wasted vote in line with his principles, not her principles.  So what?  The point had been made about Clinton and all they were going to get had been done.  At best they would have failed with 55 votes which is still a failure.

This isn't the time to be toying with any Republican who had a Clinton in his sights and ended up shooting himself in the foot.

If you're bored with our top candidates, go see a slasher movie. Don't take it out on a presidential election.

She is playing the same game that Dobson is.  If the candidate is not perfect, then run away.  In this case Thompson is a viable candidate, and she is so enraged at his not voting to support what she considers the paramount legal issue of the century that she will villify him out of hand.

My exit question to her and Dobson is this:  Who would you like LEAST in the Whitehouse?  Hillary or Fred?

Maybe she needs to keep the long term goals in mind.

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