Posted on 11/17/2011 11:41:45 AM PST by jenk
You know, if it weren't for Romney supporters, I might be able to support the guy.
On Tuesday night, Ann Coulter was a guest on the Sean Hannity Show where she said this: COULTER: I think the candidate, it is going to be and is the strongest candidate to beat Obama is Mitt Romney. And, you know, I'm a little tired of these Johnny-come-lately conservative purists.
She's talking about us, the tea party. She is calling us Johnny-come-latelys, saying, basically, "Where were you when we were fighting all this time, you just showed up on the scene in 2009, who are you to deign to come in and pick our candidate for us, you tea party morons." Then she has to go and throw in the "conservative purists" label. That got me angry.
Where were we, Ann? We were buying your books, learning. We were raising our families, trying to make a better life for them than we had, driving our trucks until gas cost $100 a fill-up, figuring that hard times were just a bump in the road, as usual. But then came Obama, and we can see, because we are parents and understand a little better how life operates, that no matter what we do to try to make our kids' lives better than ours, this spending and agenda for America means they will never have it as good as us. So yeah, we are going to pick your candidate for you. We are the ones who have the most to lose. We own property, work hard, and we aren't going anywhere. And you know what else, for somebody who is a lawyer and purported to be a great thinker, you couldn't come up with a more accurate phrase than 'conservative purists' to describe mainstream America? I'll give you a hint. We are Americans, and in America, the people are constitutionally mandated to be in charge of their government.
Coulter: Where were they when we were running John McCain? For Pete's sake, Romney is a million times better than McCain.John McCain isn't running. I agree Romney is better than John McCain, but you're not! You have decided to snipe at regular American people who have bought your books and learned the ropes while raising our families, and you call us Johnny-come-latelys?! Who the hell do you think reads your stuff?! So now you get to sit right next to McCain, who calls us hobbits.
Coulter: Romney speaks absolutely beautifully, he's been magnificent in the debates. I think he's a little bit of a country club Republican, too, but let's just get a Tepublican in there and get Obama out and as long as we have a Republican Senate -- by the way, Tea Partiers, that's what we need to be working on, Republicans picking up the Senate.Alright, what she is saying now is the same thing they said about O'Donnell, and Angle, and Palin, and anyone that the American People prefer over their pick. She is regurgitating verbatim what I heard on last November when my candidate won. All the little twenty-something consultants and beltway hacks were dumping on O'Donnell for losing the Senate. But the beltway and the Republican establishment in Delaware worked against her the entire campaign. Now, the mere mention of O'Donnell to these beltway losers creates convulsions. So that shoots a huge hole in the idea that Coulter is an original thinker.
HANNITY: But here's a problem he's facing. And this is important. He has had a hard time up until now. Now, it's fascinating in the polls, he's the one guy that has remained a frontrunner, has not lost that status from the very beginning. It seems like he is having -- it doesn't seem like, he's having problems with some of the conservative base in the polls there.This constant beating-up of Reagan by beltway losers is supremely irritating to me. I was a kid when Reagan was in office, and Coulter acts like 'Reagan was a one-timer, get over it.' No, it is conservatism we need, and your guy Romney is not one. He evokes zero ambition, zero emotion and zero faith that he will not acquiesce to those terrible, mean, nasty, Marxist, xenophobes that you have been writing about, and are running the government right now! For crying out loud! Oh, and Romney's such a nice guy, gee, he doesn't want to say those incendiary things that those crazy tea partiers say...that is exactly what McCain did. You cannot win a campaign against a Marxist that way, who will stop at nothing to get elected. Romney is getting such velvet glove treatment, that he'll be turned into mincemeat, and you know what else? When we are up against people who are trying to destroy America, nice guys finish last. How do you think Romney will react when they go for his short-and-curlies? Hmm, Coulter? Ever think of that? To think that you have been laying the case for years about how liberalism is destroying America, and how to talk to libs, and their agenda is Demonic, yet you say, hey everybody, let's throw some oatmeal at him, that'll really get him!COULTER: Right. That's what I'm saying. What the reason for that is, and I understand this, I agree, this seems, feels like 1980. If we had a Ronald Reagan out there, we could probably win with the Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is not available this year. We have to -- and Romney is well-known to --well the electorate generally and conservatives -- we know what his negatives are but we have to keep cycling through these other conservatives to find out what their negatives are. And boy, the Obama White House is loving this, keep Republicans fighting.
COULTER: What I think Republicans should be and conservatives, people who care about this country should be looking at, is not just can you check off this issue, this issue, this issue, but who can you send in, in the debates against Obama? I think hands down that is Mitt Romney.
What if Obama refuses to have a debate? His supporters don't watch debates, we do. Debates are for us to decide and discern, and weigh options and measure the candidates because we are thinkers. The leftists and anarchists are emotional. I actually think you were the first one to teach me that. So why the hell would Obama not just sidestep the debates? He is, after all, ignoring every proper and ethical way to run the nation, throwing separation of powers in the ditch, shredding the Constitution, WAKE UP! By the way, any Republican can win a debate against Obama, because it would only be watched by us!! But let's say Obama gives in and only has one debate, we'll all say for months that our guy won the debate, while him and his pukes pick Romney apart, pitting all groups of people against one another, making everyone afraid of everything, as usual.
The beginning of the segment on Hannity talks about Chris Christie warning Republicans not to underestimate Obama's campaign, and then Ann Coulter, Christie's biggest supporter, trips on in, and underestimates it completely.
Applause! BTTT
I've never had Fox News and since around 2004 I dropped TV altogether. And you know what? I don't think I'm missing anything at all.
There ya go...:-)
Actually, I didn’t buy her books either. I was using the “we” as a typical conservative.
Also always thought she was way too skinny. She needs to eat something.
What has happened to the once conservative Ann Coulter. She is going rino and that is just a awful shame.
thanks:)
I think every Republican on Fox News has to say he or she is for Romney. Otherwise, they won’t allow them on. A real shame too. Since it used to be a good news channel.
Not really, just not quite as liberal as the other channels.
The Republican insiders are as bad as the Democrat insiders. They all hang out together. They all go to the same parties, eat at the same places, know the same people (the important people). As long as the status quo is maintained, they have guaranteed status.
What makes them nervous is new faces. It’s like the old rich looking down on the nouveau riche. They whisper to each other, “Who are these people, and why do they think they belong here?”
It’s time to boot all of these jerks, Democrats and Republicans alike, out of town. It’s time to show them who’s boss.
For one thing, we can stop listening to their shows and buying their books.
We can show up at party meetings. Or, if we aren’t welcome, we can start a new party. Things have to change. We can’t keep playing the two-party game. Neither party has our interests at heart.
“...blinky crap...”
lol
Coulter’s latest book is right on the money. But everything else she has done since November 2008 has been off the mark.
She lost it with the loss in 08 and then she got really out of it by pushing Christie when he wasn’t going to run.
I think she might be really upset about the lack of cohesion within the conservative base. So she is pushing rinos now, the very ones she went after in 08, because she can’t find anyone to back.
I think she wants Obama out at all cost and has no other choice out there to support. But this isn’t rallying the base. Coulter is adding to the problems because she is now going against everything she preached for years to support Rino Romney.
So it has gotten to this...where the infighting lead Coulter to Romney.
Indeed. Thank you for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
No, thanks. Coulter may be wrong, but she's not what you claim she is.
Remember when we only had McCain and Romney in the primaries? This was before Palin. I voted for Romney in my state primary. McCain got it. I still think Romney is better than McCain. McCain got it by teaming up with Huckster to knock Romney out. Gee thanks, Huckleberry.
If we want to keep Romney out We the Teaple are going to have to decide between Cain, Newt and Perry, and we need to figure it out pretty soon!
I’ve mostly dropped TV as well. All I’ve got is local channels, and there isn’t anything worth watching, so it stays dark.
we need to figure it out? We do? Who does? Do I get to? or do I have to accept what she says? I get sick and tired of people assuming that out of 8 candidates, we all have to rally around one, who is not a conservative. no thanks. I didn’t put words in her mouth, I don’t know who has, but she definitely is not coming to the conclusion that most people would after reading her books that tell the urgency of the situation.
“I don’t watch Fox anymore. I just can’t take it. Even Megan Kelly has gone left.”
I don’t care what Megan Kelly does. I just want to have her children.
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