McCain was so mavericky that he ruined me ...
Posted on 04/21/2010 5:03:14 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Ann Coulter being asked if she wants Sarah Palin to run for President. Coulter said:
"I do love her, but I think I prefer her doing what she's doing now, at which she's spectacular. She's making a lot of money and she's having a great life. She has - she's giving all this energy to the base of the Republican Party - the Conservative Movement."
Coulter was answering questions after a speech she gave at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
Didn’t take very long for the Palin attack dogs to show up . . . comment 23. :)
The phenomenon we saw was a person without morals, honesty or scruples annointed by a liberal press that didn't care.
Sarah has a strong moral compass, has a gnerally honest character about her, and she actually does what she says.
To equate the one with the other is kind of crazy and misses the point imho.
Ann, bless her heart, liked Mitt Romney for President in the last election. Her judgment, while good, is not perfect.
Amazing...../sarcasm
“She reminds me of a female John Edwards”
That is down right insulting. Oh by the way did you hear Sarah talk about energy policy when she was at SRLC. Half of Sarah speech was on policy.
Lord knows we don’t need anyone in the White House that has business/budget acumen . . . we much prefer someone who has a snappy comeback and an attractive personality to anyone of substance.
I agree with Ann and think she would be a great RNC Chair!
Exactly and it would bring a huge voice to the Conservative Base, not the RINO’s!
“Any chance its because Ann is a Romney fan?”
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Bingo!
- JP
“Sarah Palin .... is not an intellectual.”
Neither is Romney, Obama, Bush or any othe GOP contenders of whom I am aware.
Neither, my friend, was Ronald Reagan an intellectual. This country’s last intellectual as President was Woodrow Wilson, a collossal failure.
“I would be willing to sit down with Sarah Palin and debate a diverse range of issues, from Obamacare, to energy policy, to AGW, to foreign policy. Levin would intimidate me if I had to go head to head against him, Palin would not.”
How difficult do you think those issues are to grasp? It is not quantum mechanics, I can assure you. As far as not being intimidated by Palin, you have been reading the New York Times too much. Did you watch the debate with Plugs Biden? She pulveized him.
I am so tired of these canards aimed at Sarah Palin’s intellect. The same things were said about Reagan by the snooty eastern Establishment.
Reading a speech is a little different than speaking extemporaneously on questions you do not know in advance.
I still cringe when I think of her debates against Joe ‘blowhard’ Biden. Palin has personality but no gravitas. The image of her has been imbedded in the minds of the ‘middle’ 20% of the electorate that swings back and forth between Dems and Reps.
She was sent out on the national stage before she was ready, and was torpedoed by the MSM. You can’t change the past, and I begrudge her nothing in terms of making some cash off her experience. I do however, find it objectionable that so many people blindly support her because she is ‘one of us’. Paul Ryan, from my state, is one of us, but watching him go head to head against Obama in the health care summit was an example of the kind of person we should be supporting. Chris Christie is another.
“...she’d be great as the RNC Chair!”
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Wrong!
RNC chair is a fundraising job for a PR man. Sarah Plin is a great fundraiser, but she’s no PR hack. Mitt Romney would be perfect for RNC chair, because he’s an expert at raising money, and he’s the ultimate political hack.
- JP
“Hope to see her in the Senate, representing AK, someday soon.”
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There are a lot of people who would like to see her take Democrat Mark Begich’s seat away in 2014, serve one term in the Senate and then run for president in 2020.
- JP
We must stop stop stop worrying about what the mainstream media will say or do! We should do what is right and ethically and morally because no matter what conservatives do the mainstream media will relentlessly try to destroy conservatives!
As for Ann Coulter...I no longer trust her judgment. Remember she is the one who viciously attacked the constitutionalists for doubting Obama's natural born status. She call them "CRANKS" and used the KKK to make her point about them.
Also I think Ann Coulter is bedazzled by Romney's blow dried and styled hair and his radioactively brilliant smile.
As for Palin, I would be more comfortable with her if she had had more experience either in business or government.
The DC GOP establishment is spooked, bigtime.
Sarah Palin told Chris Wallace that she plans to make the best decision for her family and her country relative to 2012. I trust her to do just that.
The DC GOP's problem is that they're petrified what that decision might be. Eff them.
Um, it is funny you say Reagan was not an intellectual. Coulter made exactly the OPPOSITE observation last night. She was saying Reagan was caricatured as a non-intellectual, but she has been researching him and found a new respect for his speech writing skills, his grasp of the issues, and his reading habits.
As for issues being difficult to grasp, we need no further evidence of how complex issues are than watch our current POTUS make a mash of things. It may not be difficult to grasp that AGW is an invention of the unholy alliance of leftist envirowackos, corrupt acadamia, Wall St, and our statist political class, but explaining that in terms most Americans can understand does require a little intellect.
The policy regarding Iran also requires a grasp of the dynamics of the Persian/Arab, Shia/Sunni middle east. That is not something you can read a position paper on and claim you know the facts.
Drill baby Drill, may be a good campaign slogan, but it is not a serious policy statement. One need look no further than Gov Terminator in California to see what happens when you elect someone who does not have a basic grasp of the issues at hand.
I would not support Romney, and Coulter last night seemed more resigned than enthused about his candidacy. Bush the second gave up in his second term, and his surrender to the left on prescription drug benefits was a prime example.
To take on the MSM media and their ever more leftward tilt requires more than a ‘you betcha’.
I don’t read a lot of NY Times, but rather more NRO, Powerline, American Thinker, Weekly Standard, Wall St Journal. I prefer Victor Davis Hanson to Thomas Friedman any day, but read both because one does not learn by merely reading those whose opinions mirror their own.
From both parties, just like today with Palin.
As a young adult in the late '70s, I've seen this movie before.
It is a given that all liberals declare themselves to be itellectually superior to the rest of us. And now we have
Freepers doing the same thing. Sarah did pretty damned well as a mayor and as a governor. If you read her book, she also took advice from people around her. Reagen had an excellent group of people around him. If Sarah ran and won, I would expect her to choose the right people to help her. Your self-proclaimed “inellectual superiority” may impress you, but it doesn’t impress me.
“Sarah Palin... is not an intellectual.”
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And thank God for that!
Intellectuals have made a quasi-socialist mess out of this once-proud nation.
It’s long past time for a return to Reagan-style common sense conservatism.
- JP
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