Posted on 02/01/2012 10:02:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Poor Ann Coulter, one can only imagine how she must have struggled to come up with this bit of drivel: RomneyCare is teh Bomb! After all, Mitt Romney signed it into law, how could it possibly be bad? I wonder if Team Mitt made it mandatory for her to write, that being one of RomneyCare's prime malefactions Coulter simply dances over as if it's no big deal.
There really is nothing new in her item, nothing at all; it's sophistry wrapped around old information, or argument, all of it dealt with previously and broadly. From a conservative perspective, the only difference being, rather than arguing as a conservative against over-reaching government perpetuated by elitist thinking, a misguided Coulter foolishly seems to have decided she's now somehow one of said elite, competent, or qualified enough to tell us what's good for us. Honestly, it really is that vapid in the sense of argument. But then, she didn't have much to work with.
I've already dealt with the topic - see here - or here. I'm not going to spend much time revisiting it because Coulter has decided to augment her income from political punditry with political prostitution. The only surprise there is that she comes across as so cheap, if not downright tawdry. But, hey, the economy isn't the best, so what the hey.
Here's the core conservative critique Coulter doesn't come anywhere close to raising, let alone answering. If you prefer audio, Mark Levin offers up a devastating point-by-point destruction of her silly effort. Phil Klein calls Coulter's effort "shameful" and he's right to do so. A gals gotta know her limitations. Ann Coulter has clearly tried to exceed her own. I don't read much Coulter, but if this is representative of her thinking and style of would be serious argument, she needs to stick to bombast and mildly politically incorrect, or provocative statements to draw attention to herself and leave the genuine discussion of conservatism to the adults. By the way, any attempt at Tenth Amendment argument is nothing more than a red herring in an attempt to somehow deceive, or change the subject.
Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History.
The money left in our possession, however, is our own -- to do with as we please. It is in this that our liberty largely lies. Romneycare and Obamacare, with the individual mandate, changes radically our relationship vis-a-vis the government. The former presupposes that state governments have the right to tell us how we are to spend our own money, and the latter presupposes that the federal government has that right as well. Both measures are tyrannical. They blur the distinction between public and private and extend the authority of the public over the disposition of that which is primordially private. Once this principle is accepted as legitimate, there is no limit to the authority of the government over us, and mandates of this sort will multiply -- as do-gooders interested in improving our lives by directing them encroach further and further into the one sphere in which we have been left free hitherto.
Managerial progressives see only the end -- preventing free-riders from riding for free. And they ignore the collateral damage done by way of the means selected. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have no understanding of first principles. For both of these social engineers, citizens are subjects to be worked-over by the government for their own good. Both men are inclined to treat us as children subject to the authority of a paternalistic state under the direction of a benevolent and omniscient managerial class.There is, however, this difference between Romney and Gingrich. The latter may or may not fully grasp why the Tea Party rose up against the individual mandate, but he recognizes that they did so, and he knows what is good for him -- so he has now backed away from the fierce advocacy of this despotic measure that once characterized his posture. The former is more stubborn. Politically, he is tone deaf. He seems constitutionally incapable of grasping the argument, he insists that the individual mandate is consistent with conservative principle, and he will not back off.
I am VERY disappointed in all this. Those men deposited that weird pod in Ann Coultor’s garage and, the next morning, the good conservative Ann Coulter was gone and this strange creature claiming to be Ann Coulter has taken taken her place.
She is now known as Annie Coultergeist!!!!
Coulter has really gone off the deep end for Mitt. The question is, why?
The other question is how much?
Ann Coulter has been officially indoctrinated into the east coast liberal pseudo republican blue blood country club cocktail party. Left, right, here we are stuck in the middle of this crap.
She saw who was in front and started thinking about a job. She’ll learn the hard way that once Romney is in office, Ann is no longer welcome. If Romney gets in office. But that is her only chance. She KNOWS obama won’t hire her.
I cannot wait to see how Ann is going to put lipstick over Romney’s disdain for the poor. I think Ann has fallen in ‘love’ with this man Romney.... I will leave my thoughts there.
Maybe someone has some video tape of dear Ann she doesn’t want the public to see. Compromising positions Ann? Forever off my respect list. Took the money and ran.
She’s really doubled down on her support for Mitt when any reasonable person would have stayed quiet. Supporting Romneycare makes her look insane.
Maybe Willard is giving her something other than money.......
Said it before but needs reiterating again...
Coulter is an idiot and so is Romney!
Coulter has long given up Conservative principles as has Romney.
bttt
“...Note that governments do not have “rights.” Rather, they have only powers.
This obviously goes for states as well, which is why it is absurd to argue for “states rights” in order to bypass the Constitution and restrict human rights.
Which is why the Confederate assouls who used “states-rights” as a pretext to restrict and deny the rights of human beings were anything but conservative. For only a leftist could believe that the state has a supernatural right to strip man of his natural rights.....”
Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2841340/posts?page=35#35
bump
Maybe she is going through “the change” a little early and it’s messed her up.
She’s 51 years old, that’s early?
“Coulter has really gone off the deep end for Mitt. The question is, why?”
Menopause...
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