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
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
She also thinks Romney is the one, true conservative?
She’s more RINO than I’d thought. And crazy.
Ann ignores the most conservative candidates. She has become part of the media elite she despises.
Don’t flame me...she could have spoken up a long time ago.
thanks for posting this. She nailed down the situation in Michigan in the very first paragraph.
I usually like Ann, but I think she doesn’t like Fred because he only voted to remove Clinton on one count, and she is settling for Romney. However, her mischaracterization of Romney’s abortion position causes me to lose a great deal of respect for her. It wasn’t simply promising not to change things in Mass. Romney described having had a pro choice position dating back to the days that his mother was running for Senate. He said that Roe v. Wade should be “defended and preserved”
Come on Ann, if you think Romney’s the best we can do, then so be it, but don’t try to convince us that Romney has never been a liberal. We all have access to You Tube.
Yea, why would she deride them for now checking into their candidates before voting?
Something is weird here...
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.
BAM!! She nails 'em in the opener.
Should read: “not”.
A surprisingly non-condemnatory take on Romney.
I’m pleasantly surprised because Mitt is my 2d choice after Fred. “Better Fred than Mitt, but better Mitt than red.”
Her favorite has always been Duncan Hunter.
Who is more conservative than him?
It’s the media that ignores the most conservative candidates.
Oh, and she did speak up long ago.
Ya gotta watch carefully...
She didn’t say he’s the best conservative, did she? I thought she said he’s the best candidate to go against the Democrats.
She has spoken up repeatedly, and has said in interviews she supports Duncan Hunter for president.
I interpret this column as only dealing with the leading candidates, and it seems to me with this column she is assuming Fred has no chance at the nomination.
Don’t be hard on Ann. She liked Duncan Hunter and so did I. However, he has never caught on and Romney was probably her second choice.
Romney became my second choice with Hunter being my first. All the hooting and hollering about Hunter is not going to make it so...
So.... GO MITT!!
You haven’t paid very close attention. Ann has, from the beginning, been for Duncan Hunter (me too), but he’s obviously not going anywhere. Romney is the smartest choice.
“Ann ignores the most conservative candidates. She has become part of the media elite she despises.”
She has, indeed.
Romney is a pathetic liberal.
Typical hate Coulter crap. It happens on every one of her threads.
Go Mitt!
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