Posted on 01/16/2008 2:39:26 PM PST by Syncro
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
January 16, 2008
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them.
In contrast to Michigan's foul weather, New Hampshire was balmy on primary day, allowing McCain's base -- Democrats -- to come out and vote for him.
Assuming any actual Republicans are voting for McCain -- or for liberals' new favorite candidate for us, Mike Huckabee -- this column is for you.
I've been casually taking swipes at Mitt Romney for the past year based on the assumption that, in the end, Republicans would choose him as our nominee. My thinking was that Romney would be our nominee because he is manifestly the best candidate.
I had no idea that Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire planned to do absolutely zero research on the candidates and vote on the basis of random impulses.
Dear Republicans: Please do one-tenth as much research before casting a vote in a presidential election as you do before buying a new car.
One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain.
This point was already extensively covered in Chapter 1 of "How To Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)": Never take advice from your political enemies.
Turn on any cable news show right now, and you will see Democratic pundits attacking Romney, calling him a "flip-flopper," and heaping praise on McCain and Huckleberry -- almost as if they were reading some sort of "talking points."
Doesn't that raise the tiniest suspicions in any of you? Are you too busy boning up on Consumer Reports' reviews of microwave ovens to spend one day thinking about who should be the next leader of the free world? Are you familiar with our "no exchange/no return" policy on presidential candidates? Voting for McCain because he was a POW a quarter-century ago or Huckabee because he was a Baptist preacher is like buying a new car because you like the color.
The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide.
New York Times columnist Frank Rich says Romney "is trying to sell himself as a leader," but he "is actually a follower and a panderer, as confirmed by his flip-flops on nearly every issue."
But Rich is in a swoon over Huckabee. I haven't seen Rich this excited since they announced "Hairspray" was coming to Broadway.
Rich has continued to hyperventilate over "populist" charmer Huckabee even after it came to light that Huckabee had called homosexuality an "abomination." Normally, any aspersions on sodomy or any favorable mentions of Christianity would lead to at least a dozen hysterical columns by Frank Rich.
Rich treated Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" as if it were a Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film. (On a whim, I checked to see if Rich had actually compared Gibson to Riefenstahl in one of his many "Passion" reviews and yes, of course he had.)
Curiously, however, Huckabee's Christianity doesn't bother Rich. In column after column, Rich hails Huckabee as the only legitimate leader of the Republican Party. This is like a girl in high school who hates you telling you your hair looks great.
Liberals claim to be enraged at Romney for being a "flip-flopper." I've looked and looked, and the only issue I can find that Romney has "flipped" on is abortion. When running for office in Massachusetts -- or, for short, "the Soviet Union" -- Romney said that Massachusetts was a pro-choice state and that he would not seek to change laws on abortion.
Read More at... AnnCoulter.Com
“Perhaps you would know better than Kris Mineau, president of Massachusetts Family Institute. You & others might find the following interesting:
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/01/romney-responds.html
Now, you were saying? Are we to believe you, or someone in the trenches for the very fight you’re pounding Romney on?”
Of course Kris Mineau of MFI threw his support behind Mitt—he got paid to do it. And wasn’t the only one. Read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/us/politics/11romney.html?pagewanted=all
The attempted leveraged buyout of the GOP continues apace.
LOL...from the article:
In the months before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts contributed tens of thousands of dollars of his personal fortune to several conservative groups in a position to influence his image on the right.
Last December, a foundation controlled by Mr. Romney made contributions of $10,000 to $15,000 to each of three Massachusetts organizations associated with major national conservative groups: the antiabortion Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Massachusetts Citizens for Limited Taxation and the Christian conservative Massachusetts Family Institute.
Mr. Romney and a group of his supporters also contributed a total of about $10,000 to a nonprofit group affiliated with National Review. Over the past two years, he contributed $35,000 to the Federalist Society, an influential network of conservative lawyers. And in December 2005, he contributed $25,000 to the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative research organization.
The recipients of Mr. Romney’s donations said the money had no influence on them....
So, I ask you again, should we believe you or Kris Mineau, president of Massachusetts Family Institute? What are your credentials & how are they better than Kris Mineau? You seem quite fond of your legal intellect.
I remember you having it out w/ Comeuphigher a while back. I was fascinated by the discussion & the points being brought up. I thought it was interesting & shared the discussion w/ a couple of attorney friends of mine. They felt many of your views were ignorant & sided w/ Comeuphigher b/c he was on firm legal & constitutional grounds.
With that as a backdrop, & barring you citing credentials that are better than his, I think I’ll side w/ Kris Mineau on this one. No offense of course.
And I wish you would open your blinders. I remember you when you were a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gay rights, small government conservative. I recommend you study Mitt Romney’s own past deeds and words. Past deeds are a much better indicator of future performance than are 11th hour conversions and campaign speeches.
Start here:
“I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country... I sustain and support Roe v. Wade... I will not waver on this.” —Mitt Romney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3xJdFbJGw
“I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country... I sustain and support Roe v. Wade... I will not waver on this.” —Mitt Romney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3xJdFbJGw
The man you’re putting so much confidence in was bought off by Romney. His claims about Romney’s record on family issues are laughable on their face, in the light of even a cursory knowledge of that record.
Agreed. She hasn’t looked very hard. I notice she got in a plug for a book sale in this piece.
I find it hard to take her seriously lately. She just comes across like Dowd does at times. Very bitter and angry. Doesn’t help the Conservative cause with that attitude.
Perhaps if you’re going to hang with lawyers, you should find some who aren’t judicial supremacists like Romney.
LOL...
ROFL!
;)
BTW, to show you how silly your argument is, if Romney was so pro gay marriage, why would he have donated 10-15k to this movement, a movement that is ardently against what you accuse him of supporting? Unfortunately, I can already hear the conspiracy theories being formulated in your mind. A shame really.
At this point, I’m done. I’m not fond of the sandbox & it seems that’s where you’re headed for a protracted stay. I’ll pass, it’s all yours.
What power does a president have that would allow him/her to make abortion illegal?
When running for office in Massachusetts -- or, for short, "the Soviet Union"....
Uh, yeah, Ann - - and "the Soviet Union" ELECTED Mitt. Doesn't that tell you something? Anything at all?
Romney's first race was against Sen. Teddy Kennedy -- whom he came closer to beating than any Republican ever had.
Maybe. But it ended up a Kennedy landslide. I am surprised Ann's memory of that race is so short. Mitt actually held a lead in the polls at the beginning, when he was talking like a conservative. But then, as Mitt ran like a scared bunny rabbit from the Boston Globe, he coughed up the lead and finally committed political suicide at the debate where Mitt let it be known that he could be just as liberal as Kennedy.
After his term as governor, NARAL Pro-Choice America assailed Romney, saying: "(A)s governor he initially expressed pro-choice beliefs but had a generally anti-choice record. His position on choice has changed.
Yep. Makes you wonder what other positions he will change if he gets elected. Will he run like a scared bunny rabbit from the NY Times, the networks, and the rest of the Democrat liberal newsrooms? I'm betting that he will.
At worst, Romney will turn out to be a moderate Republican -- a high-IQ, articulate, moral, wildly successful, moderate Republican.
Good grief, Ann - - did you proof read this?
A "wildly successful moderate"?? Even if that was possible - - no thanks.
Well, this endorsement demonstrates that even a beautiful, witty genius like Ann Coulter, every once in awhile, can screw up badly.
I'm afraid I don't understand this comment.
Why do you want to take the focus off the principles involved, and your candidate’s utter failure to adhere to conservative principles over his entire adult life before he decided to try and lie his way to the presidency, and put them on my credentials, which you obviously know nothing about?
Mitt Romney is a conservative now?
Come on Ann....jeesh.
Mitt Romney is a conservative now?
Come on Ann....jeesh.
It’s the “kill the messenger” strategy, which Romneyites are so expert at. Anything to take the focus off Romney’s words and record over decades.
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