Ann Coulter: NEWT PRESENTS A FRESH NEW VIRTUAL FACE [Oops!]

AnnCoulter.Com ^ | December 7, 2011 | Ann Coulter/OR'eilly

[Syncro]

 

 

NEWT PRESENTS A FRESH NEW VIRTUAL FACE

December 3, 2011

Before you newly active Republicans commit to Newt Gingrich as your presidential nominee on the basis of the recent debates, here's a bit of Newt history you ought to know. I promise you, it's going to come up if he's the candidate.

The day after the Republicans' historic takeover of the House of Representatives in the 1994 election, Newt was off and running, giving a series of Fidel Castro-style speeches about "the Third Wave information revolution." It had the unmistakable ring of lingo from his new-age gurus, Alvin and Heidi Toffler.

(Newt, who was married at the time, also began dating again.)

A few weeks later, when Newt was elected House speaker by the incoming Republican conference, there was a small elderly couple standing by his side as he gave a one-hour acceptance speech. It soon became clear who they were, when he issued a reading list to the Republican legislators. At the top of the list was a book by the Tofflers.

Hadn't Republicans just won on a platform of smaller government? Instead of a Republican victory, the '94 election seemed to be a victory for the Tofflers' cyber-babble about "social wavefront analysis," "anticipatory democracy," "de-massification," "materialismo," "the Third Wave" and "decision loads."

Then, in his first week as speaker, Gingrich was again promoting the Tofflers around town, introducing them at a technology conference and giving a speech titled "From Virtuality to Reality."

How about a speech on Republican plans to reform entitlement programs?

Gingrich soon announced that all legislation passed by the new Congress would have to pass a test: Will it help move America into the Tofflers' vision of a "Third Wave"?

If this guy ever became president, he could end up foisting EST on the nation.

It was also a Toffler-inspired idea that led Gingrich to propose giving poor families a tax credit to buy computers -- an idea he called "dumb" just one week later.

(Newt's denouncing Paul Ryan's Social Security reform as "right-wing social engineering" and then apologizing a week later -- and then retracting his apology -- was not uncharacteristic.)

The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.

Their big idea was that the world was about to change faster than it ever had before, creating a technological explosion that would frighten and baffle the masses -- much like the bewildering VCR clock. The government would have to have advisers and committees in order to ease the transition.

The facts are nearly the exact opposite. In the first half of the 20th century, we got widespread use of the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, electricity, radio and television, indoor plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration, the computer, nuclear power and rockets.

All we got in the second half of the 20th century were some improvements on one of those inventions -- the computer -- with the personal computer, the Internet and the iPhone. (Boomers were more focused on acid trips than space trips and dropped the ball on the hard work of pushing scientific progress forward.)

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[jellybean]

Sorry Ann: NO MITT - NOT NOW! NOT EVER!

Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.

[Plutarch]

Ann, Ann, Ann....WHY are you pushing Romney??????

Uh...how about because Newt would be an electoral disaster?

Notice how the MSM is going easy on Newt? They hope and pray Newt is the nominee (but I guess they don't really pray).

[zeestephen]

17 years down the road it's easy to forget the anti-Newt media riot during 1994-1998.

More than anything else, that was responsible for Newt's downfall.

Newt never saw it coming, and he had no answer when it did.

He's learned nothing from that lethal mistake.

In 2011, he still has no instant response team in place and no national strategy to counter the Hard Left media onslaught which is coming.

[BillyBoy]

>> In years past I would have read any article by Coulter, but she no longer has any credibility with me. Once she came out in support for Romney, she lost me, completely. <<

She came out in support of Romney four years ago. Her fans here simpy ignored it claimed she was a "Duncan Hunter supporter" because she praise his record in the House and said he was a great conservative. By those standards, every Republican was a "Duncan Hunter supporter". Ann was firmly in Romney's camp for President since 2007.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

[Bonus points for anyone who can remember the phrase: “high tech; high touch.”]

I win! I even remember that the Tofflers used the phrase in the opposite order - "high touch, high tech."

I also know that it is currently in the marketplace. It is called, "Apple."

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

At least Newt did support Ronald Reagan and the Reagan Revolution. He did build a successful Republican majority. He did cut taxes, did reduce the deficit, did balance the budget, did block HillaryCare, did reform welfare, did allow us to reap . . . the Reagan economy.

Romney saddled Massachusetts with budget busting RomneyCare, taxpayer funded "safe and legal" abortion, gay marriage, leftist judges and a completely destroyed Republican label. And RomneyCare did become the model and impetus for ObamaCare.

Hear, hear!

It's sad that we are where we are, without Palin in the race and with our being reduced to rooting for someone who has no executive experience and who has married multiple times and will therefore not be the very best example in the WH in that nontrivial respect. But I have to say that compared to looking at the '08 train wreck of a Republican primary campaign with McCain winning it, seeing Newt pull away from Romney isn't the worst scenario I have ever seen.

We were overjoyed to see Palin as the VP nominee back then - but had we known how she would be abused, we should have wanted her to wait, finish her one term, and then burst onto the national scene the way she did in '08.

Rush had a caller on yesterday who told him that she personally knew that the bigwigs in Fannie and Freddie knew beforehand that the malodorous stuff was going to hit the ventilator in 2008 - so that the Democrats were fully forewarned to be ready to exploit the fact that it happened on Bush's watch. Chuck Schumer, we recall, helped trigger that meltdown. Clearly with malice aforethought.

Now, with some long years of experience of what it means to have a pal of Bill Ayers in the White House, we had better be able to make some anti-incumbent hay of our own in 2012. I have to say, with GHWB allowing himself to be succeeded by Bill Clinton and with GWB having allowed himself to be succeeded by Barak Hussein Obama - and with the international situation being what it is - the Bushes have not exactly made the most of the legacy of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

[nikos1121]

Ann, when I heard you slept with Geraldo, I didn’t hold that against you...but

There is something called “The Primaries.” In this forum the candidates fight it out. It really hasn’t even started yet. In the end we rally around the winner.

Doubtless, we know what you’ll do if your man doesn’t get the nod.

In summary, Ann, please stop being so full of yourself and let the process run it’s course. I know you think you’re smarter than everyone else, but fact is, Honey, you’re not....

Ciao

[SumProVita]

Are you REALLY attempting to say that Speaker Gingrich would be worse than Romney???????

;-o

[Rummyfan]

The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.

LOL! Thank you Ann!

[jellybean]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN!

[Sola Veritas]

“Ann Coulter is not a Mormon, she is a Christian.”

That is what she claims - does she know what it means? Only God really knows about Ann - I don’t. However, my point was that she is infatuated with Romney. The plural wives statement was a play on words...just like Ann uses.

She lost credibility a long time ago with her support of GoProud.....and her infatuation with Romney. She really is not that entertaining anymore.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Ann Coulter: this time right, but for the wrong reason.

Still no to Romney, Ann.

[Syncro]

“Ann Coulter is not a Mormon, she is a Christian.” That is what she claims - does she know what it means?

Obviously you are not familiar with her writings, and posted that out of ignorance.

She lost credibility a long time ago with her support of GoProud.....

She is not a supporter of GOProud.

She is on their advisory board.

As such, she advised them that some of their beliefs are wrong, and they took appropriate action.

The plural wives statement was a play on words...just like Ann uses.

Wow, quite clever of you! You are on your way to multiple best sellers I would imagine...

[Sola Veritas]

Defend her all you want - you are becoming a minority. She has become passe. The majority of true conservatives don’t care for her anymore. Notice how few people even comment on posts by her anymore.

[Syncro]

Oh give me a break, you sound like a bitter jealous old woman.

Coulter's columns have always gone up and down in response count depending on how interesting or germane they are.

Thanks for the opportunity to show how wrong you are.

Coulter, withing the last month here at FR:

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• Ann Coulter: Picking ‘The Most Right Wing Candidate’ In Primary Is ‘Suicidal’

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  “Those who think ‘oh, absolutely, this is going to be 1980; we are going to run against Jimmy Carter’… and then there are those of us like me and apparently Governor Christie who think this guy is going to be tough to beat... The idea that you pick the most right-wing candidate without any concern over who can win is suicidal..." Video at link...

• Ann Coulter: IF NOT ROMNEY, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN? (No Ann NOT Rommey!)

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  IF NOT ROMNEY, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN? November 16, 2011So now, apparently, we have to go through the cycle of the media pushing Newt Gingrich. This is going to be fantastic. In addition to having an affair in the middle of Clinton's impeachment; apologizing to Jesse Jackson on behalf of J.C. Watts -- one of two black Republicans then in Congress –- for having criticized "poverty pimps," and then inviting Jackson to a State of the Union address; cutting a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi; supporting George Soros' candidate Dede Scozzafava in a congressional special election; appearing...

• Coulter calls McCain a ‘douchebag,’ gets bleeped by MSNBC

  Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:56:23 AM · by AngelesCrestHighway · 88 replies

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• Ann Coulter: ONCE YOU GO CONSERVATIVE BLACK, YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK (Smoke, No Fire)

  Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:09:06 PM · by Syncro · 49 replies

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    ONCE YOU GO CONSERVATIVE BLACK, YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK November 30, 2011

  With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a "love child" with his mistress, Rielle Hunter? The left is trying to destroy Cain with a miasma of hazy accusations leveled by three troubled women. Considered individually, the accusations are utterly unbelievable. They are even less credible taken together. This is how liberals destroy a man, out of nothing. After the first round...

Yes, to a few malcontents she has lost popularity.

But not to the majority of Conservatives.

[D-fendr]

I win! I even remember that the Tofflers used the phrase in the opposite order - "high touch, high tech."

Well done! You win a million internet bucks!

And, yes, I agree that Apple products are the embodiment of the phrase.

Thanks for your reply.

[hosepipe]

[ The majority of true conservatives don’t care for her anymore. Notice how few people even comment on posts by her anymore. ]

WRONG.. anybody with any sense loves Ann Coulter..
Even when she stumps for Romney.. or Christy..
They would both would make a better President than Zero..
As well as Newt would be superior to any democrat..

Truth is Michele Bachmann is the ONLY conservative offering this time..
Santorum is way too white and ho-hum.. i.e. Romney, Huntsman, Perry... Newt looks like an albino.. gets a pink-eye pass(minority)..

Coulter is selling books.. Romney is acceptable to the other side.. Newt is NOT... actually anybody else is not..
The bad guys want Myth Romney.. even the republican bad guys..
Ann (I think) is just selling books.. “to the people that SHOULD read her books”..

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Newt will be a disaster. At worst he gets Obama reelected. The Republic can not withstand another four years of Obama.

Romney was an effective governor in Massachusetts. He was squishy on abortion and is somewhat soft on social issues. He was flexible enough to get elected in Massachusetts facing a repulsive Lesbian Democratic apparatchik.

Unlike Newt, Romney is not completely batty. He can talk for minutes on end without sounding like a lunatic.

[PaleoBob]

Haha! I remember the Tofflers and Ann nails them here. I haven’t thought about any of this stuff in a long time. But she is right-on about Newt in the respect that he is a sap for future-schlock razmataz and grand ideas. In this respect, Newt bears some liknesss to Al Gore, believe it or not. Gore is just a little more sinister about it where Newt is just downright daffy.

[PaleoBob]

DRAFT PALIN

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