Many Conservatives Were Shocked By Ann Coulter

RightWingNews.com ^ | 7 Feb 2012 | Steve Baldwin

[SoConPubbie]

I was going to blog about Romney’s recent flip-flops on the minimum wage issue and bilingual education – flip-flop #36 and #37, but when I saw Ann Coulter’s recent column praising RomneyCare, I have to admit, I just lost it. She called RomneyCare “free-market” and claims it’s a “conservative” approach to health care. Apparently, the individual mandate is something we conservatives should all run out into the streets and start celebrating. I was shocked.

One of her arguments seems to be that a number of conservative politicians and the Heritage Foundation originally supported RomneyCare and therefore, that makes it conservative. While that be true, that doesn’t make it conservative. A few years back I surveyed all the conservative think tanks and free market groups that work on health care and aside from Heritage, every one of them condemned RomneyCare, including the Beacon Hill Institute, Massachusett’s leading free market think tank.

I was in attendance when the Heritage Foundation sent a representative to Grover’s Norquist’s weekly Wednesday meeting downtown D.C. and addressed over 60 free market leaders about the virtues of Romneycare. Let me assure everyone, the presentation was not well received. Contrary to what Coulter implies, the vast majority of free market thinkers and groups have opposed RomneyCare from the beginning.

Moreover, RomneyCare has been a disaster. Premiums have skyrocketed, many insurance providers have left the state, and health care choices have become increasingly limited. Everything we conservatives have predicted would happen with ObamaCare is now happening in Massachusetts.

Coulter’s other argument is that because the individual mandate is being carried out at the state and not the Federal level, as with ObamaCare, it’s ok for conservatives to support it. What? So, in other words, if a state quadrupled tax rates or banned all guns, then conservatives should support that

[SoConPubbie]

From the article . . . . .
But as any New Jersey conservative activist will attest, Christie isn’t a conservative and never has been. He ran his gubernatorial race as a moderate and won by defeating two conservatives. On the issue of gun control, global warming, immigration, gay rights, taxes, and many other issues, he’s a RINO. But apparently, Coulter thinks he’s a conservative because he talks tough to the media during press conferences. What a standard. Coulter loves to rip liberals up for not having their facts straight but when it comes to certain male politicians, she allows her crushes to get in the way of reality.
And the Un-Masking of Mitt Romney, the left-wing, Progressive Liberal, continues . . .
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[Sopater]

Please, Ann. Set the cup down and slowly step away from the koolaid.

[Little Ray]

I think her greatest moment was the Coulter Doctrine for the War on Terror:

Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.

If we’d followed this, things would have probably turned out better (for us...).

[TMA62]

The problem with Coulter as well as with people like Neal Bortz is that they look at anyone who has an “R” next to their name is good and anyone with a “D” next to their name is bad. The problem is that many republicans who have positions on issues that are no better that those of democrats. We call them RINO’s but Coulter, Bortz, et al. see no difference.

[Sybeck1]

Wonder who will win MA in the general? Mitt or Barack? Barack of course.

[voicereason]

Why would I (a conservative) be surprised that Coulter would support RomneyCare. I never considered Coulter to be conservative, just someone who was riding a wave. Hence, I never considered her opinion to be worthwhile, nor have I have I ever purchased any of her books due to that same reason.

[fishtank]

SISTER WIVES: Coulter wants to know more.

Pro-Abortion Basturd (sic) Rmoney 2002 YouTube video

Willard McBush WANTS polygamy in the afterlife. It makes him no different from practicing it NOW.

[allmendream]

“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached”.

I was unaware that Christian doctrine included conversion at the ‘point of a sword’. In fact I am certain that it does not. Neither is enforced religious conversion an American ideology consistent with freedom of conscience.

[LibLieSlayer]

ann is a socialist and that is all that there is to it.

LLS

[fishtank]

SISTER WIVES: Coulter wants to know more.

Pro-Abortion Basturd (sic) Rmoney 2002 YouTube video

Willard McBush WANTS polygamy in the afterlife. It makes him no different from practicing it NOW.

[Lazlo in PA]

I thought I saw that it was a 10 point race up there between Milt and Obummer. That seem remarkably close considering Obummer won MA in ‘08 62% to 36% for McLame.

[sirchtruth]

Ann is probably another David Brock.

At the very least she is heading down that road...

[Daveinyork]

Lately, I’ve been reading Ann whenever I feel my blood pressure getting dangerously low. She cures it immediately.

[Lazlo in PA]

I think we know about as much as we need to know about how Conservative GOProud Ann really is.

[M-cubed]

I liked the Gen. Curtis LeMay doctrine better.....

“Bomb ‘em back to the stone-age”

[Don Corleone]

Annie’s march through menopause must have really scrambled her mental whore moans. /sarc

[GraceG]

I’ll bet Bill Maher was surprised too when he and ann were playing a round of “find the sausage” in his bedroom.

[freekitty]

What has happened to her?

[aimhigh]

What has happened to her?

I think she exposed herself by being pro-gay, and now selects her candidates on that basis.

[Little Ray]

Unfortunately, for many Muslim countries, that is a really short trip and accomplishes little.