RIGHT-WING MOBS? SAY IT ISN'T SO, CONSERVATIVES!

Ann Coulter ^ | 3-12-2014 | Ann Coulter - OP/ED

[smoothsailing]

March 12, 2014

RIGHT-WING MOBS? SAY IT ISN'T SO, CONSERVATIVES!

When I wrote a book about mobs and group-think a few years ago, I could honestly say that mob behavior existed exclusively on the left in America -- unless you count Oakland Raiders tailgate parties, which I do not. As described in Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, the distinctive characteristics of the mob mentality include:

-- Slogans as arguments ("Bush lied, kids died!" "Keep your laws off my body!" "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms");

-- Imperviousness to facts (e.g., the left's refusal to abandon repeatedly disproved canards about Reagan's tax cuts causing the deficit, the Aug. 6th PDB (President's Daily Brief) stating anything relevant about 9/11, and Valerie Plame being an "undercover agent");

-- Acceptance of contradictions (I haven't heard a cavil from MSNBC about Obama's expansion of the Afghanistan war, use of drones and continued operation of Guantanamo -- all deemed "war crimes" in the Bush administration); and

-- Extreme emotional attachment to their leaders combined with a passionate hatred of putative enemies (the burning and decapitations of Bush in effigy, books and movies about Bush's assassination -- even as liberals' publicly discuss their sex fantasies about Clinton and Obama).

To my dismay, some of these mob characteristics can now be found in small pockets on the right.

For months and months, for example, I've been demanding facts -- not shibboleths or epithets -- from the anti-Mitch McConnell brigade.

Here are my facts:

(1) For more than a decade, Sen. Mitch McConnell has stood alone in fighting unconstitutional campaign finance laws, earning him the undying enmity of The New York Times. (The Times is probably the largest contributor to the Senate Conservatives Fund opposing McConnell.)

McConnell took on the entire MSM, as well as members of his own party, principally John McCain and President Bush, who incomprehensibly signed McCain-Feingold into law with the idle musing that the Supreme Court could strike down any unconstitutional parts. (It didn't -- until some of it was finally overturned in Citizens United.)

McConnell was the Ted Cruz of campaign finance laws, leading filibusters to block these outrageous infringements on free speech, writing op-eds and giving speeches denouncing them, and directly suing to have McCain-Feingold declared unconstitutional in McConnell v. FEC.

As McConnell explained (beautifully):

"(T)he political left has always faced an uphill climb in a country in which there are two self-identified conservatives for every self-identified liberal. ... In order to succeed in this environment, liberals have generally resorted to one of (three tactics): obscuring their true intent; pursuing through regulation and the courts what they can't through legislation; or muzzling their critics."

(2) As minority leader, McConnell managed to get every single Republican in the Senate to vote against Obamacare -- even "Strange New Respect" Republicans like John McCain, Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham. No other Republican leader has ever accomplished anything like that.

For example, under Minority Leader Bob Dole, seven Senate Republicans voted for Clinton's 1994 crime bill, which contained the assault weapons ban widely credited with Republicans' sweep of Congress later that year. That's not merely a reflection of Republicans being worse back then: Among the "Ayes" were conservative John Danforth (Mo.) and William Cohen -- as good as you get from Maine.

The importance of a solid Republican vote against Obamacare can hardly be overstated. Thanks to McConnell, there is no confusion about which party is responsible for this widely detested law -- and which party you should vote for to get rid of it.

(3) McConnell tricked Obama into accepting the only spending cuts to the federal government in more than half a century.

Obama originally proposed the sequester on the assumption that its provisions were so harsh, Republicans would never accept it. But McConnell called his bluff and, for the first time since Eisenhower's first term, a bill was signed into law that would impose large-scale spending cuts on the federal government.

Even Ronald Reagan didn't cut federal spending!

McConnell did -- and that was with a Democratic president and a Democratic majority in the Senate. (Imagine what he could do with a Senate majority!)

Unfortunately, that deal was lightly thrown away by Rep. Paul Ryan last month, after he was bamboozled by the stupidest person in America, Sen. Patty Murray. Ryan claimed he jettisoned the spending cuts in order to restore military spending.

I'm sorry, but who cares about military spending as long as Obama is president? At the rate he’s going, Obama might use our military to attack England.

In any event, about a week after Ryan scuttled McConnell's historic budget cuts, Obama's defense secretary announced plans to reduce the Army to its smallest force since before World War II. Good work, Paul!

While we're on the subject, Ryan also supports giving the Democrats 30 million new voters with amnesty. But I don't see the shyster "tea party" groups or talk radio charlatans trying to take out Ryan. Only the guy who cut government spending for the first time in 60 years is on the hit list of the Senate Conservatives Fund and the rest of the fake tea partiers.

(4) On the most important issue -- immigration -- McConnell not only voted against Marco Rubio's amnesty bill, but at the moment, he may be the only thing standing between us and a scheme to import 30 million new Democratic voters. As House Speaker John Boehner works feverishly behind the scenes to push amnesty through, McConnell recently announced that there would be no immigration bill in 2014 (thank almighty God).

There are breathless headlines all over the Internet claiming, "McConnell Supports Amnesty!" but when you click on them, the links don't work and the claims don't make sense.

In fact, over the years, McConnell has voted for:

-- preventing legal immigrants from collecting food stamps (1997);

-- a border fence (2006); and

-- English as the official language of the U.S. government (2007).

He also voted to block federal funds from being sent to so-called "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens (2008). The only amnesty McConnell ever voted for was the one signed by President Reagan in 1986.

I know this from looking up McConnell's actual voting record, as opposed to reading nonsensical jeremiads against McConnell on the RedState blog.

True, McConnell is bad on guest worker programs, but if that's the test, the only Republican senator worth a damn is Jeff Sessions. I don't disagree, but I wish conservatives would mention that to their elected representatives once in a while.

Like Ted Cruz. According to The New York Times, Cruz supports "a path to legal status," with "the goal of allowing (illegal aliens) to stay," and expressly rejects Mitt Romney's idea of "self-deportation." (Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration, Sept. 12, 2013.)

McConnell has never said anything that bad on immigration.

Those are facts. Here's the counter-argument from the anti-McConnell crowd: HE'S A RINO! HE'S AN ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN! HE'S BEEN A TERRIBLE LEADER! MITCH LIED, KIDS DIED!

Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have all the attributes of a mob: Slogans in lieu of logic and evidence, beliefs impenetrable by facts, emotional hatred of the "enemy" and the acceptance of wild contradictions. Isn't Paul Ryan dreamy? Let's run Ted Cruz for president! We love Reagan ... But we hate McConnell for voting with Reagan!

Nothing good has ever been accomplished by a mob.

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[smoothsailing]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Appearing at a panel with Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday morning, conservative columnist Ann Coulter joked that Republicans pushing for amnesty are actually racist because increased immigration would depress the wages of black and other minority workers.

“My whole life I’ve heard ‘Republicans are racist, don’t like black people, don’t care about black people,’” Coulter said. “I never believed it until I read Marco Rubio’s amnesty bill.”

[Graewoulf]

” - - - the oligarchs have no use for the commoner and will not give a damn about them. They will use their robots and drones to maintain their dominance. - - - “

Hmmmmm - - - - - ?

This COULD be a valid description of Obamanation, but just what is an “oligarch?”

Webster puts it this way: “ ol-i-garch, n. any of the rulers of an oligarchy.”

Not much help there!

Webster, again: “ol-i-garch-y, n. 1. a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few persons. “

Okey-dokey, now take the good old USA with its “of the people, by the people and for the people” type of government - - - - ?

Hmmmmmm - - -? :

* Ruler # 1 is Soetoro-Obama, CIC of Obamadrones;
* Ruler # 2 is Reid, gatekeeper of the US Senate;
* Ruler # 3 is Roberts, rubber stamp Judge for Rulers # 1 and 2; and
* Ruler # 4 is Boehner, loyal House doormat to Rulers # 1, 2 and 3.

Hmmmmm- - - - ? I guess it all depends on what one’s definition of the word “few” is - - - - .

FORWARD !

[BTW, have you ever noticed that the Obamanation command “FORWARD !” ALWAYS is toward the Financial Cliff?]

[Cubs Fan]

Mitch McConnell Snaked $2.2 Billion in Pork For Ending Government Shutdown

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/10/17/mitch-mcconnell-snaked-2-2-billion-worth-of-pork-for-ending-shutdown/

[Paladin2]

“Get off my lawn...”

[gorush]

Ann, if you monitor this site I’d like you to know that I agree with Viennacon.

[Graewoulf]

The con-artist challenge by Democrats to RINOs to “Fix” the failed Federal Medical Insurance Law, Obamacare, is now approaching a decision point: April Fools Day, 2014.

Always eager to do nothing unless it is something that might make the Democrats hate them less, the GOP Establishment is actively searching for ways to help “their best friends across the aisle” on the failed Obamacare Law which is set to fail April Fools Day, 2014.

The GOP-E has recently picked up Romney’s “Torch of Tyranny” (Romneycare), and are happily working on their own version of Federal Medical Inurance called “RINOcare.”

Will the TEA Party Reps. in the US House rise up and replace “Doormat for Obama” Boehner, and then ABOLISH the RINOcare replacement of Obamacare, or will everyone just sit on their hands and be happy to be everybody’s fool, again?

Romney is hoping that Boehner’s RINOcare prevails, as it will allow Romney to run again as the GOP-E Nominee in 2016.

BTW, why are so many RINOs so determined to continue the financial destruction of America by advocating Federal RINOcare?

Obamacare has proven to millions of Americans that Federal Medical Insurance will always be doomed to fail, a lesson ignored by our sorry Federal RINOs.

FORWARD !

[BTW, have you ever noticed that the Obamanation command “FORWARD !” is ALWAYS towards the Financial Cliff?]

[cripplecreek]

I know this from looking up McConnell's actual voting record, as opposed to reading nonsensical jeremiads against McConnell on the RedState blog.

While it may be true its also true that experienced politicians know how to game the system by voting for things they know will be removed or changed in committee.

[Viennacon]

I cannot believe Ann is backing this scumbag. Oh, wait. I can, because she loved Krispy.

[Paladin2]

Ditch Mitch.

[A CA Guy]

Sorry Ann, he fought against what Cruz was trying to do and THAT is why conservatives will go after jerks like the one you are defending.
Go push your Romney and Christie to Democrats or something. Sorry about reducing book sales.

[Timber Rattler]

I despise this backstabbing harpy.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yup. She left that part out. Not shocked.

Romney, Christie and now Mitch. Oh but I’m sure her support squad has a reason for it all.

[Carry_Okie]

Ann, was the money McConnell waved under your nose so good that you were willing to dump your readership for good?

Really?

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for posting this Coulter Puff Piece on Son-of-a-Mitch McConnell, the RINO Coward Senator from Kentucky.

“Pretty Face” Coulter does not mention the central fact of McConnell’s aiding and abetting the Obamanation: McConnell bailed out Reid by proposing temporary budget extensions, which have allowed Reid and Obama to spend whatever they have wanted to without approving a single Federal Budget in five years.

Son-of-a-Mitch deserves all of the ire that can be heaped upon him.

The Cave-In, Doormat, RINO Cowards in the US House and Senate are the ONLY reason that Soetoro-Obama has been so successful in the last five years at “Fundamentally changing the United States of America.”

And now the line in the sand is drawn, “Pretty Face” Coulter, which side do you choose to stand on?

[Flavious_Maximus]

Coulter didn't just all of a sudden, out of the blue decide to defend McConnell. I tell you now, Coulter has been paid off. If you could investigate this, you would see she received a big fat check from a source close to McConnell. She took the money to write this article. There is a word for woman who take money to provide a service. We are on to you Ann. Now we know what you are.

[cripplecreek]

I agree with her that we don’t want to become like the left but she’s also trying to manipulate the truth just like the left.

She’s assuming that we’ll read what she says and not give any further thought to it but this ain’t my first rodeo.

[sauropod]

Ann Coulter has jumped the shark so many times she is playing jumprope with it.

Shame on you Ann!

[GeronL]

McConnell is the mob here, ann

Like clockwork the same suspects start going squishy again

[Mastador1]

Apparently Ann is just okey dokey, tickety-boo with RINO mobs! I guess it's just CONSERVATIVES she has a problem with.