Posted on 06/08/2011 9:28:04 AM PDT by Rational Thought
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter hearts former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“She’s fabulous,” Coulter said during an interview Tuesday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
“She is a big star. She’s virtually the biggest thing on the planet.”
But Coulter cautioned the potential presidential candidate about setting her sights on the White House.
“I wouldn’t [run for president] if I were in her shoes,” she said. “I think it would be the worst job imaginable, both running and holding the office.”
And for one already-declared candidate, Coulter has changed her tune - slightly.
She praised one GOP contender and put down another in one swipe at February's Conservative Political Action Conference, saying, “If you don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we’ll lose.” But the conservative firebrand now admits to having warmer feelings for the former governor of Massachusetts, who recently announced his bid for the presidency.
“I now think the economy is such a disaster and Obama has such a glass jaw that we might even win with Romney. And Romney isn’t a disaster … I like him.”
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I find it completely incongruous and illogical to write books extolling the virtues of conservatism & dangers of liberalism while pushing RINOs.
Coulter is untrustworthy.
And this is why we can’t get a decent amount of conservatives into politics. It is amazing how FREEPERS turn on folks so easily. Ann Coulter used to be “honored” on this site and now she is vilified. It was the same thing with just about everyone. Tough bunch. But in the end we will lose because we drop folks very easily. Folks want to drop Michele because of the person that she picked to run her campaign. Big deal.
IOW, who is the lesser of two evils. No thanks. The lesser of two evils is still evil, and not a friend of conservatism.
Calling Romney not a disaster is damning with faint praise.
A RINO might well be as destructive as Obama because Congressional Republicans (and right wing media) tend to lie down for RINO's.
““I now think the economy is such a disaster and Obama has such a glass jaw that we might even win with Romney.”
She was just on the View and said (referencing the economy and BHO’s “glass jaw”) that any Republican who can put two sentences together could beat him. She just said that unless CC runs (ugh), it would be Romney. I think she was being pragmatic, because there’s a high likelihood that it will, indeed, be Romney.
Although I personally think Romney-care should be disastrous for him.
Coulter is very brite and very smart, when it comes to understanding, with the precision of a scalpel, the American Left and Liberals.
I have never known her to possess any particular depth of understanding of the economy, other than the frequent GOP knee-jerk reaction in support of private corporations. I say “knee-jerk” because many in the GOP have the mistaken notion that all corporate CEOs and boards believe as much as Conservatives do in essential and foundational principals of free enterprise Capitalism and individual Liberty.
So, I can understand her mistaken notion that simply because Romney has been a business man that he excels in a Conservative understanding of the economy. Her does not. And, his state health insurance legislation, "Romneycare", demonstrates emphatically that he does not.
In addition, Romney's refusal to have a "Madison" moment with the Massachusetts courts - on the "gay" marriage issue, when he was governor there - demonstrated he will not know a Conservative, originalist judicial candidate when he sees one.
Coulter should stick with what she knows, and can expose, best - the mob mentality of the Left and Liberals; and stay out of shilling for different GOP candidates.
You might be right about the bulk of Christie's politics, but taking on the state teacher's unions is manifestly NOT and "easy call". Taking on a political force like them is not to be done lightly.
Here in Pennsylvania Tom Ridge made similar noises during his first election campaign. The teachers let him know he had a choice... a 2nd term as governor or a single tumultuous term. He chose the easy way out. I'm just glad GWB didn't pick that idiot to be his running-mate.
Coulter is a Beltway lawyer with a degree from an Ivy League school.
What wasn’t clear to you before this?
Wow! Bigoted much? Sheesh! Also dishonest much? You are, indeed, implying something "untoward about her."
Listen up, fool, things happen in life. Not everyone is lucky in finding a loving life partner. Even straight Christian conservatives, men and women, can wind up without a spouse for a whole host of reasons. Not everyone wins life's lottery.
[ Her love affair with RINO’s makes her look Elitist, stupid, or both. ]
I see... So you would not vote for Romney and allow Zero to win a second term?..
And you call that rational?..
I idiot Morgan asked her about Romney she didn’t bring him up!...
Morgan is a British liberal(socialist) you know?..
Of course he would edit her comments after the interview..
She handled herself well.. making the editing a harder job..
He couldn’t say she trashed any republican.. brilliant actually..
Coulter told The Daily Caller she would support Romney if only left with the candidate choices from the last election cycle. “The choices in Feb. 2008 were Romney, Huckabee or McCain. I would still support Romney over Huckabee or McCain,” she said.
Supporting Romney is a last resort for Ann Coulter not a first choice. I can’t support Romney even as a last choice, but Ann’s decision doesn’t make her a RINO-lover or untrustworthy.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, regardless of how wrong they may be. You talk of me/us putting her in the “enemy” camp. Well, the biggest “enemy” Conservatives face may not be Liberal Democrats, but Liberals who reside in the Republican Party calling themselves Conservatives. Those types, who are what I mean by RINO’s, truly don't agree with Conservatives. I don't even think they like us. Oh, they will throw us some crumbs to attempt to garner votes, but if they had their way, they would sooner have an Obama in office versus a real Conservative.
Honest Conservatives can have disagreements over minor issues. I don't expect the 1000% perfect candidate. But on core issues, there are no disagreements. Romney doesn't believe in most of those core issues. Christie is showing signs he doesn't either.
Hi Rintense. Good to "see" you. The thing is, what may be a "RINO" to you or me, others may see as solid, but practical, conservatives.
To me, examples of a true RINO include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlie Christ, Lincoln Chafee and Arlen Specter. Pretty much anyone to the right of those types of people is not a RINO, whether or not I happen to agree with them on every issue.
I intensely dislike Coulter, but she is no RINO and the pols she supports also tend to not be RINO's, at least as I understand the term. :)
You evidently think that life is a lottery, eh?
This Christian Conservative believes that life is what we make it through Almighty God's gift of free will. It is our choices and deliberate decisions that guide the outcome of our lives. Life is not a Las Vegas game of chance. It is all about personal responsibility.
That’s bunk. She just praised Sarah as being fabulous and the biggest thing on Planet Earth. Don’t forget that Ann is good friends with Rush. And Rush commented that Sarah’s book “Going Rogue” was perhaps one of the best policy books in a long time. She and Rush agree on much.
Ann said that runing for prez and holding the office would be a horrible job. She said if she were in Sarah’s shoes that she wouldn’t run. That’s NOT the same as advising Sarah not to run.
There's another alternative called Third party. Given the historical track record of "Moderate" Republican nominee's, I would take my chances with something with a low chance of winning versus something with no chance of winning.
With this I agree wholeheartedly. There has always been a more liberal strain in the Republican party. Used to be called the Rockefeller wing. As I mentioned just a moment ago in another post, to me real RINO's are people like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lincoln Chafee, Charlie Crist, and Arlen Specter (particularly in his later years). Anyone to the right of them is, to me, not a RINO even if they happen to be more moderate on some issues than me.
Christie had nowhere else to go in the budget debacle with the teacher's union. The money simply wasn't there. To his credit, he had the cojones to stand up and tell them that the piggy bank was empty.
The point of my previous post was that Ann Coulter is showing an abysmal lack of judgement by mentioning Christie as possible contender for the conservative vote. She'd do just as well to choose Michael Bloomberg.
In the same breath, she says that "Romney isn't a disaster", and advises Sarah Palin not to run! What sort of conservative patriot talks like that?
I don't know what's wrong with Ann, but I don't want any part of it.
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