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Ann Coulter Deserves an Answer

By: Thad Hunter (Diary)  |  February 23rd, 2012 at 01:33 PM  | 

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 Yesterday Ann Coulter asked WHAT’S THEIR PROBLEM WITH ROMNEY?  Here is one answer.

  1. We are tired of the political class informing us who is electable?  Electability is determined by collecting actual votes from a broad a cross section of America.
  2. Romney’s machine tried to cut the process off at Florida, which makes him appear weak.
  3. His Super PAC exceeded the limits of criticism and contrast and lied about Newt’s record.
  4.  He is not a movement leader.  We do not see a heartfelt reflective trail of writings and speeches like Ronald Reagan provided us as he journeyed away from the Democrat Party.
  5. Mitt counters with his resume and not governing principles.
  6. He is not sufficiently transparent as demonstrated by last night’s last question, “what is the worst misconception of you?”
  7. He has not delivered a positive message explaining why we should vote for him that also addresses our fear over the country’s direction.  He has not even secured his base after many years of campaigning.
  8. His continued affirmation of Romneycare is a problem.  The 10th Amendment answer is correct, but the federal government now controls most healthcare dollars and benefits.  What will he do if another state decides to implement a new and improved version of Romneycare or any other healthcare program and then demand federal dollars to implement it?  The issue is broader than Romneycare and he has not articulated what he believes the federal role in healthcare should be. 
  9. Nor has he answered the more basic question, which is why any government entity can mandate that its citizens purchase any product as a condition of simply being alive?
  10. His business experience is helpful.  We certainly don’t need any more lawyers wielding power over us.  But a person who builds a lawn mowing business from scratch knows more about the impact of government regulations than a Bain Partner.  Furthermore, business skills do not automatically qualify someone to make sound policy decisions.
  11. Finally, I do not believe that he or his staff understand or are prepared for the fight that awaits him.  When he uses language like “President Obama is just over his head”, all I can see is John McCain throwing his cards on the table at the first accusation of racism.  Obama’s machine and the media are maniacal.

So I don’t understand why you are so vested in Mitt Romney at this stage.  But you can take heart that we are desperate to retire our historic president and end his “Dreams from My Anti-West Father”.  I will have no problem voting for Mitt if he is the nominee.  Just let the primary voters speak.

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  • Repair_Man_Jack

    NT.

    • elayman

      If Not Mitt, Who ? Who would be the best strategic fit ?

      • Repair_Man_Jack

        The GOP voters already have a path forward. They attend their primary/caucus, they cast their vote, they then sit back and watch the convention. The calendar here isn’t in any doubt.

        • elayman

          but so were conservatives perceived to be behind the entire cast of Tea Party characters that scared mainstream Republicans essentially into his arms. Mitt was considered a safe choice, a known quantity, and very unfortunately the realization that we have been had sometimes takes a few contests to fully reveal. It is a combination of structural factors with the personalities involved.

        • dimondintherough

          Do not understand her rabid support for him. As was said above he does SAY many of the right things, but I for one, and i’m clearly not alone, do NOT believe him. He has a desire to be liked and accepted by the glitterati, media and elites he will wilt at the first sign of resisitence.

          Washington is totally broken. Can we not accept that we don’t need the most likable and affable character to get elected? We need someone who will turn it upside down and start over again. We need someone who doesen’t care if we like him but will make the hard changes.

          Only NEWT fits the bill. He will become electable once the popularity contest ends and people begin to realize what a mess we are in and how badly we need a total shake up.

  • jon11

    First off, coulter wrote a very good piece.

    That said:

    I find number 5 a bit surreal.

    It’s saying, in effect, “mitt expects us to look at his record but we’d rather hear the candidates rhetoric.” governing principles? He’s laid out as many as the rest but who cares what these guys say they will do now. I want to see how they’ve lived their lives.

    Number 11 is also surreal.

    Not prepared for the fight? Hes the only guy that’s remotely prepared. Newt and Rick didn’t even get on all the ballots. Talk about not being prepared.

    And mitt is the only one who’s been able to withstand scrutiny. Newt wilted like a delicate flower under a measly few million worth of attacks. Obamas going to run a billion worth.

    And Santorum showed how prepared he is last night by turning in one of the most inept debate performances I’ve ever witnessed.

    Other than those 2, I suppose I get your reluctance to back him

  • WmCraig

    You lay out some good points. Let me add one, the Romney campaign doesn’t care about me, or my vote, or convincing me that they will fix the country. If I didn’t know better I would think Romney is running as an alternative to a Democrat challenge to the President.

    But what concerns me is the idea that we are “retiring Obama”. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing to prevent the 44th president from becoming the 46th president. If you think Romney will have a difficult time with the election, wait until Obama is the “ex-president”.

    Do you think the media that distorted the truth, lied through omission and beat the drum for Obama is going to ignore him for one second when he is out of office? Of course not, they will want him back for his second term as much as he wants it. And without the inconvenience of having to play at running the country he will free to play golf, raise money and campaign.

    Do not expect Obama to be the gentleman President Bush has proven himself to be, quietly retiring to his ranch now that his watch is done, He will form a shadow government pending his return. And he will make every effort to return.

    Worse, with the support of the media he will suck all the air out of the room. A minute will not go by that there aren’t more “quotes from the great President Obama” on any and every subject than anything from the 45th President. For a minute of air time Obama will get thirty. And be sure that one minute will be to highlight the fecklessness or stupidity of the Republican president so that they can give Obama a half hour lambasting the administration.

    We need a Republican that will dismantle the bureaucracy in Washington, not just “put it to better use”. And Romney has done nothing to earn my trust. Instead of “retiring” Obama, we might actually be playing into his hands and enabling him to free himself him from inconvenience of the 22nd amendment.

  • Agelaius

    She does represent what is more or less the establishment of the party – upper income fiscal conservatives, who are often somewhat libertarian in terms of their social policy. She is an attorney from Connecticut, after all. She is from a wealthy, elite family. She runs with folks like the Romneys, and she is similar enough to Mitt Romney in terms of background and focus, that she would naturally support him.

    Indeed, until Santorum started demonstrating viability, I was ready to just get behind Mitt and be over with it. But I think the Romneys, and the wealthy East Coast conservatives in general, have benefitted a lot by the Tea Party, while exploiting it for their own interests. Coulter talked a good game for a very long time – but at the end of the day, she is not really all that sympathetic to middle class believing Christians who maybe have a populist streak, the Reagan Democrats who are now the core of the Republican Party. Face it, most Republicans are not wealthy. They aren’t likely to become wealthy, but they just want a chance to work and they won’t complain about income inequality or wage disparity as long as they can put food on the table and live a reasonable life. Our goals are not inconsistent with the free market beliefs of Romney etc. But we care about the moral nature of our country, and our identity as Americans, and wish to restore a country in which family matters. I think sometimes that Coulter and other East Coast wealthy Republicans have played with the base for a long time, taken them for granted, and considered our deeply held beliefs as something that can be manipulated. Coulter wants to sell books; if Santorum continues to remain strong or even pull ahead, she will be back on our side.

  • Wayne

    led me to realize something I hadn’t given any consideration. She said (and I quote), “Romney is more Presidential”. And this is the reason she was going to vote for him. When pressed for specifics about his “Presidential” qualities compared to Newt, she disregarded me went with the old “Newt’s Baggage” response that didn’t hold up as the conversation progressed.

    It seems a lot of people believe that he is more electable than Santorum, Newt or Paul. Though none of those I press for specifics have produced any answer sufficient to move me from being a Newt supporter. If Newt is elected, he can give me credit for at least 50 votes as a result of those pointed and irritating responses to “He’s more “Presidential” than the other candidates.

    Women! Can’t live with them, and can’t ignore them either. What’s a guy going to do????

    • demsaresatanic

      on women before. The “my wife drives a couple of Cadillacs” probably sealed the deal.

  • davenj1

    will everyone expressing the negativity towards him sit it out and allow Obama another four year reign of liberal terror? These attacks on Romney are like the generic attacks on RINOs. Let the primary season play out. But quite frankly, I cannot see people flocking to Santorum or Gingrich in the General Election, so lets get real here.

    • trickamsterdam

      OK, “let’s get real here”.

      There’s not ONE shred of recent evidence that Romney is more electable than Santorum. You might as well keep insisting there are nine Planets when there are only eight…

      This is about how Romney does worse in Purple States than Santorum::

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/why-mitt-romney-might-be-even-weaker-than-you-think.php?ref=fpb

      It’s not just that of course…without the complete help of the Establishment and vastly out-spending his opponents (and sometimes even when he has those things, like in Iowa and SC), he gets beat.

      Romney’s primaries often turn out like the small-town drunk and petty criminal who’s beaten up by the small-town Sheriff and Deputy: “We hurt him real bad, this time, Joe Bob! This time he’ll learn!”

      But Romney never does.

      ***

      As far as what I’m going to do “when Romney wins the nomination”, personally, well, if he were to nominate a true agent of change like a Jim DeMint or Rand Paul, it would show me something, and I’d probably try to help him get elected…wouldn’t work, but I’d try…w/ Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio, I’d be conflicted, but probably vote for him (but still not donate to him).

      Other than that, I’m out (and it’s virtually only those actual four names, not people “like that”), but what’s funny is this guy is unelectable whatever conservatives do. Once the MSM and Obama’s billion are done cutting him to pieces, he’ll lose Independents too. So in a sense the Base would only make it closer, not get this guy over the top.

      Now, let me say, I won’t be posting anti-Romney diatribes here if he wins the nomination…and not just because of the rules. There’s no need to demoralize and act superior to people who are mostly going to be doing something they don’t want to do anyway (vote for Romney). I’m at least that close to polite.

      Besides, 90% of my posts are about the Pres election, which I was remarkably excited about (including having Romney as my back-up) until Romney went scorched earth. So after a Romney nomination there’ll be virtually nothing for me to post about.

      But I will say this…everyone who thinks he’s going to rally everyone just because of Obama…you’re wrong. It’s so beyond his liberalism.. You don’t do what he did to Newt in FL and not pay a price. Don’t believe me, look at some of those recent polls I recommended of Romney’s pos/neg rating. It’s crashed over 30 points w/ Republicans since he went negative in December.

      And none of that had to happen for him to win. And the fact that he doesn’t know it didn’t have to happen for him to win, tells me a lot about him too.

      That is, a rank amateur politician like this can’t beat a sitting President who’s as ruthless as Obama. Romney is not electable.

  • texastaxpayer

    I mean really these people sound and act like the crazy wonks in 08 chatting “hope and change” in zombie like obedience. Romney has a past and it counts. Quit trying to act like he deserves credit for the minor things good with his record while blaming the “liberals” for the overwhelmingly poor majority of it. It’s stupid and nobody is buying it. Another thing, quit asking me to “take his word” on conservative pledges when his commitments have at most a 48 hour warranty.

  • mikefrey

    repeal ObamaCare (oops – almost wrote RomneyCare ;) ) but we don’t believe him. He has given us plenty of reason to doubt this, including his statements that he would not repeal.

  • Viet71

    A fair measure of disrespect, IMO.

  • trickamsterdam

    “Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obamacare in the crib, by solving the health insurance problem at the state level.

  • David123

    13. Romney takes Obamacare off the table as an election issue
    14. we don’t know what he thinks – he’ll say anything to be elected
    15. he may really still be pro-choice and be planning to nominate judges who would uphold Roe-v-Wade.

  • acat

    16. Romney takes jobs off the table as well.

    (guarantee that for every Obama-unemployed person Willard can trot out the media will find someone Romney laid off while at Bain…)

    Mew