Posted on 02/14/2013 4:26:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Sean Hannity's Wednesday radio show conservative commentator and “Mugged” author Ann Coulter laid out what she viewed to be the proper criteria for the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential hopefuls.
She ruled out rising-star Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as a potential candidate unless the United States were to absorb Canada’s three most western provinces due to eligibility questions stemming from the fact that Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta. Beyond that, Coulter also wants the next GOP presidential candidate to live up to certain gender and appearance standards.
“Look — the general principles on choosing our next president, and like I say we’ll throw them all in debates and see how they perform because that’s an important — that’s important how they appear,” Coulter said. “Got to be a governor — maybe a senator, but definitely governor or senator. No members of the House. Even the governors — they’re much better if they come from bigger states and preferably purple to blue states. [They] cannot be freakishly short or freakishly funny-looking. And I would say three years from now, and only I can say this — I think no women right now. We can’t do anything fancy. America has not had a woman president yet.”(continued)
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Palin or pass!!!!
You honestly believe left-his-wife-while-she-was-stricken-with-cancer had a shot during the general election? We had enough to deal with concerning Bain Capital. You think the press would have ignored Newt’s heavy baggage?
Gingrich could have won, the Romneylike Santorum having been kicked out of the Senate by a history making defeat of massive numbers, I think around 18%, was a political loser like Romney, that is why the establishment didn’t see him as the threat.
More proof Ann Coulter is an OBAMA SUPPORTER......she always attacked Obama Eligibility people when they accurately pointed out Obama was not eligible. But she has no problem bringing up Cruz being ineligible .
She probably will deny Marco Rubio is ineligible...hey he is a liberal
Actually, since that didn’t happen, that’s not baggage of any kind. Guy with Caymn islands accounts and who didn’t pay taxes for 10 years probably couldn’t win anything and didn’t.
The goobers eat it up.
Remember, you aren't trying to convince Democrats to vote for you ~ you are trying to convince Republicans to bother coming out to vote for you.
The fact is that Newt did try to negotiate a divorce from his wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery. This alone would have killed him in the general election.
The woman was a felon!
Second wife attempted to sell influence ~ while he was Speaker of the House. She was even investigated by the FBI. Newt chose not to have her prosecuted. But, again, that woman was a felon.
With his third wife they both decided to return to Jesus.
When it comes to the cold hard facts you have to side with felons to attack Newt. Are you prepared for that?
They agreed to a divorce BEFORE she went in the hospital to have surgery, and it was not a life threatening cancer, either.
This wife, by the way, was Newt’s high school teacher that sexually molested him when he was a minor. When she became pregnant, he felt obligated to marry her.
She should have been charged with a crime and sent to prison.
I’m not going rehash the GOP primaries from last year. This isn’t about convincing me to vote for Newt in the primaries. It’s about Newt’s electability in the general election against Obama. Remember the “DoleGingrich” ads from the ‘96 election? Remember the GOP caucus trying to dump Newt as Speaker? Gingrich hasn’t gotten any more likable since then. To reiterate what one poster above said, no one outside of FR likes Newt and the press would have destroyed him had he won the nomination. Think of how Obama could have used the “War on Women” meme against him.
Jefferson discovered the key to winning ~ shoot for 50% + 1 vote. Jackson also understood that. Then, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, FDR, Truman, Nixon on his second and third runs, Johnson, Reagan, Bill Clinton and George Bush ~ also discovered that concept and understood the 'Truth' best expressed by Harry Truman. He put the whole concept into a simple aphorism ~ "Given the choice between voting for a fake Democrat, or a real Democrat, they'll chose the real one every time' ~ which is actually a corollary of the idea of getting your own troops out to vote before considering any other thing in an election.
Elections are not a contest of ideas and personalities ~ they are a contest in relative ability to assemble and move one's own party's supporters to the polls.
The disputes over ideas take place over many years, personalities over a shorter period of time, but firing up your own voters required natural born charisma and intelligence ~ even if you are otherwise viewed as an a--wipe!
Another corollary ~ one that you focused on even if you didn't realize it ~ is to demoralize the other guys and encourage their voters to stay home.
Obama's handlers engaged in that ~ and to a degree they did succeed in keeping some Republican voters at home. In fact, Romney did that himself starting in the Virginia primary ~ his operatives screwed up things so bad we ended up without the breadth of candidates we'd been led to expect would be on the ballot, and even the Democrats who crossover to mess with us didn't show up. We were down to a tenth of a good turnout!
I saw doom at that moment ~ no way you can win with a candidate who shows no concern whatsoever for the fact he's just taught 90% of his potential voters in a state to stay home! Obama walked in on that catastrophe and even with a major loss of votes himself, crushed the Republican ticket in Virginia.
I'm still waiting on Romney to begin his campaign and tell the Democrats what a terribly nasty candidate their leadership elite has stiffed them with ~ again!
The perfect GOP candidate:
Claim Prolife to get the Catholic vote.
Bomb Iran to get the Jewish vote.
Not be a Catholic to get the Bible belter vote.
Have a Spanish name.
Be rich.
Ted's mom is a natural-born American citizen. His father was born in Cuba, fled to the US in 1957 and is now a US citizen.
Ted was born in 1970. I've been unable to determine if Pop was a citizen when Ted was born.
It is entirely arguable that someone born to two US citizen parents in another country is a natural-born citizen, and possibly even qualifies as such with one US citizen parent.
These ambiguities are exactly the type of thing SCOTUS is supposed to settle.
Romney was not the candidate any of us wanted, but who among his opponents would have defeated Obama?
“Romney was not the candidate any of us wanted, but who among his opponents would have defeated Obama?”
Since we were stuck with Romney, it’s a rather moot point now, isn’t it?
You know, when I look in the mirror I see a face that is older than it used to be, but not bad for my age.
Every time I see a recent picture of this cow I feel old, knowing that we’re about the same age and she looks like wet rawhide stomped in mud by a heard of buffalo.
No. When people gripe about Rove or Coulter pushing Romney it is not a mute point at all. How can you blame them if you can’t or couldn’t come up an alternative candidate who had a better chance of winning than theirs did?
That’s pretty easy when you look at the facts.
Rove LOST 87% of the races where his choice was rammed down the throats of the conservative side of the GOP in 2012.
He is anti conservative, owing his influence (such as it is) to the Establishment Elites of the GOP.
No thanks.
I’ll stick with candidates like my newest member of the Senate, Ted Cruz, rather than people like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Bobby Jindal.
TEA PARTY all the way, brother!
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