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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.
Hi Jim, thanks for the comment! :)
Couldn’t agree with you more. The establishment has let us down too many times. We have to decide this election for ourselves.
Support Romney? Never!!
Did you read “Pro-God, Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-American Exceptionalism, Pro-Strong Defense, Pro-Fiscal Sanity and Solvency, Pro-Limited Government “ in my post?
Romney fails on at least 6 of those.
She does. But apparenty "they" finally "got" her.
Over what, we'll never know - unless she doesn't do as she's told.
Or unless they decide they don't need her anymore (you know that, right Ann?).
After all, that's the Democrat way.
I used to be a Coulter fan, but she lost me some time ago.
it was a joke...
Thanks for the information. I assumed that since I had not seen her speak or heard accounts of it, she did not speak.
So she was supportive of the Tea Party’s cause but now is against the Tea Party’s cause because of Romney? That makes no sense.
Indeed. Thank you for sharing your concerns, dear brother in Christ!
I saw the interview. It was disgusting. We’d made it policy for quite some time to change the channels when Ann Coulter came on, primarily because my husband doesn’t like her, thinks she’s shrill. We decided to listen to see if she’d changed at all.
She hasn’t. Back to the remote control for us.
Ann Coulter is only in the “conservative” business to sell books.
She dates Bill Maher....that says it all
Some of her comments were condescending in tone and verbage. She’s welcome to support Mitt, she has from the beginning.
But criticizing Tea Partiers and other conservatives on national TV is hardly observing Reagan’s 11th Commandment, now is it?
Why not just disagree with her instead of lying?
she lost me a long time ago; she’s in love with the sound of her own voice....
Mrs H
Ann hasn’t changed her reotoic ever. In fact, she could be discribed as an arch conservative. I glaced at some posters bioes on this topic only to discover that many where, let’s say a little far right to the point of being zany. Let’s not forget It’s not only we conservatives that will choose the president. The wishy washy moderates, centrists, and know nothing independents will never support a far right candidate. We need thosei votes to oust the imam. We need unitity within our ranks to suceed.
It is important to hate passionately anyone that disagrees with us about anything
But she is pretty condescending and arrogant, which plays better when she uses it against the Left.
Oh I think she is still supportive of the Tea Party ideals.
I haven't seen her say anywhere that because of her support for Romney that she now does not support the TPM.
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