Posted on 11/22/2012 5:58:38 AM PST by COBOL2Java
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/21/romney-was-not-the-problem/
Really Ann? You mean Romney's one debate bests Reagan's decades of advocacy for conservatism, his battles with the Republican establishment, and his building a conservative movement? Fact is Romney has done nothing for conservatism. I repeat, nothing. No leadership. No grassroots efforts. No major policy initiatives. Nothing. Reagan won two landslides. Romney won nothing. Cherry-picking facts Ann, in some strange cult-like obsession, fools no one. Same with your cheerleading for Chris Christie.
There were plenty of things that Reagan trimmed on. Had he not done so, he would have probably come closer to having a Goldwater result. As it was, he trailed Carter (!) in the polls until the last week of the campaign. Hard as it may be to believe, looking back on it, at the time I was sweating bullets that Reagan wasnt going to be able to pull it out.
There was no talk radio back then, Reagan had to help the Fairness Doctrine die first. And I think that we expect quite a lot more of our politicians now precisely because they do have talk radio behind them. But as we see from Benghazi - or rather, as we painfully realize that most of the country still does not see - it still isnt enough. And I should know how difficult it is to persuade people of the obvious truth - there are things that I see as plain as day, that I cant even get a consensus of FReepers to see.
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No, she's a lawyer. She is trained to argue and advocate for the position that pays her bills.
We have no way of knowing whether she's really a conservative, or just found it financially profitable to argue the conservative position.
This article is an 18-wheeler load of red dog crap. Its author needs to put down her crack pipe. Romney presented no strong contrast to Obama- he couldn’t. He’d already governed in a way that Obama would have found acceptable. He couldn’t beat Obama over the head with Obamacare precisely because he had already launched Romneycare. He couldn’t beat Obama over the head with gay marriage because he already supported it himself. If the tent is so big it is full of Democrats/Progressives/Communists, then there is no point in having the tent at all- something faux-cons like Ann cannot or do not want to grasp.
Lets be honest though, she was the only one who was right about the traitor John Roberts.
“We have no way of knowing whether she’s really a conservative, or just found it financially profitable to argue the conservative position. “
Sure we do. Who does she choose to spend her personal time with, Bill Maher.
This election taught me that when you factor in those riding in the wagon and loving what they're seeing and those who committed fraud, and those who turn a blind eye to it and those who feel they are too virtuous to ever vote for someone they consider less than perfect, our side will never win another presidential election and I'm not kidding.
Waiting for Ann to go Huffington...
Conservatives's are finshed with her
And she already has the fag hag gay cult thingy...
Bhuh Bhuy, Ann!!!
Losing face everyday with her mouth getting ahead of reallity. She needs to go into hiding.
Did Mark Levin or anyone on this message thread read Coulter’s article? I thought she made some excellent points and yes, when Reagan was governor of CA, he was not some fire breathing conservative.
I personally thought Romney was a pretty good candidate and would’ve made a great president. But, we will never know.
Mark favored Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Mitt was his last choice - just as he was for most of us.
I don’t know what she’s smoking because that’s almost an insulting thing for her to say.
Ronald Reagan united the country and never shied away from conservative ideals. Romney ran a cautious campaign and shied away from everything other than reciting a GDP report and lost the Republicans seats in the Senate and the House.
To suggest that he did “better” than Reagan displays a lot of ignorance. She’s trying to save face because she smeared all of our conservative candidates in the primaries, but she’s only making herself look more foolish.
Ann Coulter and The Fonz have one thing in common.
They both have jumped the shark.
Ann Coulter on 2012 GOP Field: If Christie Doesn’t Run, Romney Will be Nominated and Lose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6SOpOE788
Careful, Reagan did not win two landslides. His first margin was 9% but his vote total was only 50.4%, because independent 3rd party candidate John Anderson took about 7% of the vote. Anderson's voters were definitely not liberals but they were not conservative and definitely voted against the status quo (Carter) but also against Reagan.
Reagan's second win, definitely a landslide, did not necessarily win over these independents. His margin came from "Reagan democrats," basically blue collar voters who liked him personally even though they disagreed with his policies.
If you ask me, I think most of these so called conservative republicans have lost their edge. They are so defeated, they simply do not know what to do or say. They have gotten their butts handed to them two elections in a row, giving us candidates like McNutCase and McRomney. Neither has the conservative values to do what we need done. They all simply make me sick of the whole process. America as founded is finished. America has started down the back side of history. Sliding faster and faster into nothingness. Soon, all that will be known about America will be from old history books that liberals have hidden in the back of the shelves.
She’s always been an idiot. I never understood why some of my fellow Conservatives liked her. She’s just another clown in the Conservative Pundit Clown Car.
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