Ann Coulter is making headlines with her disapproval of Republican Presidential candidate John McCain. Appearing on Hannity & Colmes, Ann Coulter voiced the objections to McCain that are not atypical of conservatives:

HANNITY: Class warfare rhetoric. It’s interrogations. It’s Guantanamo. It’s Anwar. These are not small issues to conservatives.

COULTER: No, and if you’re looking at substance rather than whether it’s an R or D after his name, manifestly, if our’s candidate than Hillary’s going to be our girl, Sean, because she’s more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that.

HANNITY: That’s the one area I disagree with you.

COULTER: No, yes, we’re going to sign up together. Let me explain that point on terrorism.

HANNITY: You’d vote for Hillary —

COULTER: I will campaign for her if it’s McCain.

HANNITY: If Hillary is watching tonight, you just got an endorsement —

Watch the entire video of Ann Coulter’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes here.

Aside from the hilarity of imagining Ann Counter on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, this episode highlights the opposition from conservatives that John McCain confronts.

Senator John McCain has long aroused almost unanimous opposition from the leaders of the right. Accusing him of crimes against conservative orthodoxy like voting against a big tax cut and opposing a federal ban on same-sex marriage, conservative activists have agitated for months to thwart his Republican presidential primary campaign.

That, however, was before he emerged this week as the party’s front-runner.

Since his victory in the Florida primary, the growing possibility that Mr. McCain may carry the Republican banner in November is causing anguish to the right. Some, including James C. Dobson and Rush Limbaugh, say it is far too late for forgiveness.

But others, faced with the prospect of either a Democrat sitting in the White House or a Republican elected without them, are beginning to look at Mr. McCain’s record in a new light.

“He has moved in the right direction strongly and forcefully on taxes,” said Grover Norquist, an antitax organizer who had been the informal leader of conservatives against a McCain nomination, adding that he had been talking to Mr. McCain’s “tax guys” for more than a year.

Tony Perkins, a prominent Christian conservative who has often denounced Mr. McCain, is warming up to him, too.

“I have no residual issue with John McCain,” Mr. Perkins said, adding that the senator needed “to better communicate” his convictions on social issues.

Richard Land, an official of the Southern Baptist Convention and a longtime critic of Mr. McCain, agreed, saying, “He is strongly pro-life.”

“When I hear Rush Limbaugh say that a McCain nomination would destroy the Republican Party,” Dr. Land added, “what I want to say to Rush is, ‘You need to get out of the studio more and talk to real people.’ ”

How firmly conservatives reject or embrace Mr. McCain may be a pivotal variable, both in the homestretch of the Republican primary campaign, when Mitt Romney is hoping to rally conservatives to his side, and in the general election, when too much grumbling from the right in a close race could cost Mr. McCain the White House.

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