Posted on 08/09/2012 6:54:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, inquiring conservatives on Twitter are asking: Er, isn't Ann Coulter herself famously a big fan of RomneyCare?
Answer: Yeah, but I'm not sure it's Andrea Saul's mention of RomneyCare that's really bugging her. Mediaite's transcript:
“Her response was not that it was despicable, not that Bain… that Romney had left Bain five years earlier or the woman died five years after the plant closed and didn’t even get her insurance from her husband, her response was, ‘Well, if she had lived in Massachusetts with Mitt Romney’s health care plan, she would have had health insurance.’ Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to say if Andrea Saul isn’t fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime, because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has…
There’s no point in you doing your show, there’s no point in going to the convention and pushing for this man if he’s employing morons like this. This ad is the turning point and she has nearly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! She should be off the campaign.”
I think she’s irritated mainly because Saul is playing Obama’s game by treating the steelworker ad as legitimate. You don’t respond to a smear like that by addressing it on the merits; you respond by explaining why it’s a smear and how it reveals just what a fraud the Hopenchange aura is. It’s an opportunity to attack with righteous fury, and somehow Saul blew it by stepping on her own message with the health-care aside. Beyond that, it’s not inconsistent for Coulter to worry that touting RomneyCare might alienate other conservatives even if it wouldn't necessarily alienate her. You can support legalizing gay marriage while also grasping that Romney endorsing SSM would destroy him with social conservatives and all but end his chances to win. She’s taking a similar position here, I think. Whatever her own feelings, flying the flag of RomneyCare at this point is not a good move. Or am I giving her too much credit and she really has flipped 180 on this issue?
I’m through with Coulter. She’s tipped her hand - this conservative thing of her’s is just a $htick.
The Romney camp had a golden opportunity to refute Mr. Soptic’s story AND to show collusion between the Obama campaign and the PAC. This is a major screw up.
I don’t think the Republican Party really wants to win the White House.
I agree but she is right about this.
Why blame Andrea Saul? -- all the Romney spokes-whatevers are probably encouraged to tout RomneyCare as much as possible -- AFAIK, Romney's still proud of it, and I can easily picture him giving the same response himself and thinking it witty!
she should be fired...she didnt even refute the talking points of the ad. her response was lame and to people against gov. healthcare she probably turned some off
LLS
I re-read the transcript and I agree.
Saul is not the only one. That buffoon Eric Fehenstrom of Etch-a-Sketch fame ought to be fired too.
Saul, Fehenstrom and their ilk are what is wrong with politics today. These people believe in nothing, other than advancing their own careers and positions and getting power via some politicians coattails. They have no real life experiences, other than perpetual political campaigns.
Unfortunately, when their guy gets elected, suddenly these useless twits are placed in positions of great power and authority over the rest of us. Think of the morons around Obama who are now directing this nation on the road to ruin. And Republicans aren’t exempt, as Romney’s inner circle reveals.
Romney is a good man of great talent and experience. But if he gets into office with these parasites of no exceptional talents like Saul and Fehenstrom assuming positions of power, we may not be much better off.
Loyalty should never trump competence and integrity. Saul, Feherstrom, and like flacks need to go.
This is the kind of garbage that happens when politicians of all stripes rely on negative ads, truly the bane (pun intended) of our political system—and no doubt a source of disdain for the USA throughout the rest of the civilized world. If politicans and their camp followers were only allowed to discuss ISSUES and what THEY would do, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. It’s too bad that CBSNBCABCFOXCNNMSNBC simply don’t put their collective feet down and say “we’re not accepting any of these ads any more. Start sending us decent ads saying what YOU are going to do.” Lord, what fools these mortals be.
Seriously, Ann? We claim Obama knows what his minions are saying and doing but Romney doesn’t? I’ve supported Romney because I think he’s the only chance to beat Zero, but he must be as absolutely ruthless as he was in the primaries against Republicans.
RE: truly the bane (pun intended) of our political system
Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss.
In 1983, Bill Bain offered Romney the chance to head a new venture that would invest in companies and apply Bain’s consulting techniques to improve operations and raise funds for promising companies.
I wonder how Bill Bain would feel about his name being used as a pun today...
I don’t want government-controlled health care, but my main problem is with FEDERALLY-controlled health care. States should be free to experiement, based upon what their citizens want. Romney was governor of Massachusetts; it actually surprising that the state government didn’t take over even more of health care.
For me this is a federalism issue...
I reckon it beats being forgotten.
Thats what REPEAL AND REPLACE is all about..
Repeal ObamaCare ...
Replace it with Romneycare
Willard’s $50 abortions...
>> These people believe in nothing, other than advancing their own careers and positions and getting power via some politicians coattails.
You know, considering the “qualities” of the breed, I could even look the other way on that...
if only they weren’t so brain-dead, box-of-rocks, step-on-their-own-genitalia STOOPID.
How hard is it to find, train, and deploy SMART and EFFECTIVE slimy mercenaries? Pretty hard, apparently. Maybe they’re all working for the ‘rats and there are none left to hire.
Yeah... those half-dozen or so books and hundreds of columns and articles she's written blasting liberals was all a show- we know she is one of them now
Mike Church played the entire interview this morning and she called the ad DISPICABLE three times... she stated at least twice that romney was not at Bain and had not been there for over five years,
“not that Bain… that Romney had left Bain five years earlier or the woman died five years after the plant closed and didn’t even get her insurance from her husband, her response was, ‘Well, if she had lived in Massachusetts with Mitt Romney’s health care plan, she would have had health insurance.’
She said this towards the end of the interview. ann called romneycare a conservative program last year... why is it so bad today? It's a rhetorical question.
“Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to say if Andrea Saul isn’t fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime, because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has…”
Do I smell a woman scorned?
Disclaimer... I do not like romney or ann but this woman did nothing wrong as an employee of romney’s campaign. romney is the author of romneycare and to try and deny that fact will just feed obama’s attacks. We warned of this... yes we did.
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