Posted on 02/04/2015 6:15:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s good to see conservatives have gotten back to letting the New York Times choose their nominees for them.
The only silver lining to Mitt Romney being pushed out of the presidential race — temporarily, I hope — is that the media’s preferred GOP candidate, Jeb Bush, is catnip to the stupidest influence-seekers, so Wall Street will be wasting all kinds of money over the next few months.
Then, Shemp Bush will declare and knock Jeb out of the running, only to be replaced by Zeppo Bush. I wouldn’t be putting a lot of money on another President Bush, unless we’re talking about the next president of Mexico.
Most candidates for office at least wait to get elected before betraying voters on immigration, because who doesn’t like surprises? Sen. Marco Rubio, for example, has spent his entire Washington career pushing amnesty, after saying repeatedly when he was running: “I will never support — never have and never will support — any effort to grant blanket legalization, amnesty, to folks who have entered this country illegally.”
It’s almost refreshing that Jeb doesn’t even bother to lie. To the contrary, he’s remarkably frank about his intention to pass amnesty, calling illegal immigration “an act of love.” Well, sure — in the sense that someone’s getting screwed.
I wonder if amnesty operates as a magnet for illegal immigrants … hey, does anyone know if there have there been any measles outbreaks lately? But I’m sure Jenny McCarthy is responsible for the nonstop viral outbreaks in the U.S. since 90,000 poverty-stricken, unvaccinated Central American kids poured across our border last year. Polio will be next.
Recently, ICE agents in Michigan captured a major Mexican drug dealer. They knew he was here illegally, but every time they asked him his immigration status, all he said was: “Obama.”
You know what’s an even bigger magnet for illegals than a politician’s promise to pass amnesty in the future? Governors offering them driver’s licenses and in-state tuition right now.
Guess who was one of the first governors in the nation to propose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens? Jeb Bush. He talked of little else during his second term. Fortunately, the Florida legislature never agreed. Even then-Sen. Hillary Clinton came out against driver’s licenses for illegals in 2007 — at least after polls showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers strongly opposed the idea. Public opposition forced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to drop his plan to grant illegals driver’s licenses, and he’s a man who doesn’t give up on bad ideas easily.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave illegals in-state tuition. He also directed his temporary Senate appointee to vote for the Schumer-Rubio amnesty. This totally impressed Wall Street, but cost him his erstwhile biggest supporter, moi.
Gov. Rick Perry pushed through in-state tuition for illegals in Texas, and then lectured Republicans, saying, “If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.” (Romney’s response: “I think if you’re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have a heart. It means that you have a heart and a brain.”)
Gov. Mike Huckabee promoted in-state tuition, voting rights and public services for illegals, on the grounds that companies like Toyota and Nestle wouldn’t invest in Arkansas “if we send the message that, essentially, ‘If you don’t look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don’t want you.’”
Rick Santorum gets exercised about immigration only when he’s running for office, but while in the Senate and throughout the 2012 campaign, he opposed employer sanctions for hiring illegals. Newt Gingrich was for amnestying all illegal immigrants except felons, which he planned to accomplish with a review board to consider the individual case of every illegal immigrant in the country.
The only Republican who has ever opposed the media and big campaign donors on immigration was Mitt Romney. You know, the guy we just kicked to the curb. On immigration, the elites speak with one voice: The donors want cheap labor, and the media hate Republicans who push ideas that are wildly popular with voters.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney repeatedly vetoed bills giving illegal aliens in-state tuition. He also vetoed a bill to extend health coverage to illegal aliens. And he made clear he would veto any bill allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, so those never made it to his desk.
While Jeb was one of the first governors to demand driver’s licenses for illegals, Romney was one of the first governors to strike a special agreement with federal immigration officials allowing Massachusetts state troopers to arrest illegal aliens.
But with the cheap-labor plutocrats up in arms during the 2012 presidential campaign over Romney’s suggestion that their serfs “self-deport,” all the Republican lickspittles rushed to denounce his untoward remark. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker — all of them lined up to take Sheldon Adelson’s loyalty oath, swearing that, as far as they were concerned, illegal aliens should be treated as honored guests.
You better pray for a “flip-flopper” on immigration, conservatives.
No Republicans are for Amnesty. They’re all for a Pathway To Citezenship.
I've been a little cross with her for awhile, but when she's hammering stupidity, nobody else does it better.
I liked this line:
Then, Shemp Bush will declare and knock Jeb out of the running, only to be replaced by Zeppo Bush.
This was the first Ann Coulter article I’ve read in a long time. I wish I had kept my non-reading streak going.
Something ain’t right with that woman, and I’m not talking about the hyper-skinny frame or the Adam’s apple. I mean something’s not right in her brain.
Coulter: “OMG!!! Mitt’s so handsome! He’s like Superman, only way totally better! If only everybody would listen to all the words he ever said that I like, and just - y’know - totally forget the other stuff, then everything will be super duper perfect, and stuff. I pledge allegiance to Mitt-merica.”
GAG!
Just shut up, Ann. And go away.
I can think of an imbecilic blunder from each of them.
George HW Bush breaking his "No New Taxes!" Pledge.
And George W Bush allowing Bremer to disband the Iraqi Army and throw all the Sunnis out of the Iraqi government.
In both cases I was screaming at my radio regarding how imbecilic such a decisions were, and both of them had EXACTLY the consequences that I thought they would.
Anyone should have been able to see either of those decisions would produce HORRIBLE results, yet Neither one of the Bushes seemed to be able to grasp what would happen.
Uhhhh... Ann honey, conservatives did not kick Romney out of any race. We wanted him to run, so he can split the RINO vote between himself, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie making it easier for a conservative to win. At least get your facts right.
I agree, that was a darn good line.
When was the last presidential primary season that didn’t have a Bush or a Clinton in it?
Over 300,000,000 Americans. Surely we can do better.
Ann Coulter = Con Artist and Book writer. Has sex with Bill Maher.
But we all need Mr. "[Obama] is a nice guy" and "I agree with the president on that one" to lose a third time so we can be the U.S.S. of A (the Soviet Socialist States of America) forever.
She goes from supporting Duncan Hunter to a blind obsession with this phony.
Get over it, Andy, Mitt is not coming back. Ever. For anything
Her intention is to hie off to Kolob, with Mitt.
Very tired of hearing support for Romney. He is not the guy. Glad he dropped out. We don’t need any of those RINOs, Bush included.
These complaints about disbanding the Iraqi army are overrated. As Obama is responsible for ISIS even though Bush (43) is blamed for everything.
Whatever your opinion of Bush 41 and 43 is, they are not imbeciles
Bush 43 was a disastrous president. As he left office we were in the biggest economic free fall since the Depression.
Back in the 30s and 40s, no Republican suggested nominating Herbert Hoover’s brother to be their presidential nominee. And yet here we are, considering George Hoover Bush’s brother as our standard bearer. Totally nuts
He is very rich, too. Someone should tell Ann that we need a President who will adhere more closely to the Constitution (at least); not a President who would make a good sugar daddy husband.
This is how bad it is thinking Jeb will be the nominee;
Jeb makes BOB DOLE look exciting and dynamic!
Of course she is not supporting and will not support Scott Walker. After all he did not go the proper schools. He not only did not graduate from a proper Ivy League school, he attended but did not graduate from a Jesuit, Roman Catholic university. Marquette University for God’s sake! icky. How provincial.
He looks like a refugee from a time capsule that got stuck in 1950, and he minces when he walks. If that's Ann's thing, she can have him...it sure isn't mine.
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