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Coulter on Palin and a brokered convention: Beware of political celebrities in the GOP
Hot Air ^ | March 14, 2012 | Tina Korbe

Posted on 03/14/2012 2:51:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, her exact phrase wasn’t “political celebrities.” At the Indian River County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Vero Beach, Fla., Monday night, she said the GOP has a problem with “con men and charlatans.” Her point, though, was this: The Republican Party — and particularly the conservative movement — has created incentives for politicians to enter the fray not necessarily to win an office, but to eventually score a gig with Fox News or write a book. We need to be wary, then, of people who might possibly be in it solely for themselves. Coulter’s not keen on the idea of a brokered convention, but she’s also not concerned it will happen. I think she’s right. Right that it wouldn’t be good for the GOP because, really, who’s going to save us now? If nothing else, it sets a bad precedent: Who will want to face the primary process in the future if he knows he can skip it and still be in the battle for the nomination? Right, too, that it probably won’t happen. A contested convention is different: Santorum might have made a strong enough case for himself by the time the convention rolls around to be able to convince the needed number of Romney delegates to go his way — and he arguably should have that opportunity. Not sure Coulter would agree with me there, though. (H/t The Daily Caller and The Shark Tank)

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; brokeredconvention; palin; sarahpalin
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To: Realman30

Ann Coulter is obssessed with image. How the left view the conservative. She have always dislike the stupid image that conservatives get, which is why she like romney so much because he doesn’t have that stupid tag on him


21 posted on 03/14/2012 3:16:55 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: ReneeLynn

She didn’t mention Sarah by name but clearly implied that the Governor was a “charlatan.”


22 posted on 03/14/2012 3:18:16 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: samtheman
Turned fifty in December. Menopause does funny things to some women. Hormone storms make them crazy, you might say.

I wouldn't take Coulter too seriously for the next couple years.

23 posted on 03/14/2012 3:22:06 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“One of the ones promoting that [a brokered convention] is Sarah Palin, who has suggested herself as the choice,” Coulter said. “I think as long as it’s between us girls — I’ve been observing something about her. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t know what these people are cheering for.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/coulter-on-palin-brokered-convention-gop-has-a-problem-with-con-men-and-charlatans/#ixzz1p8IGb0xB


24 posted on 03/14/2012 3:27:38 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: samtheman

She has certainly become a disappointment. However, on this site people tend to be purists. I tend to think that people like Coulter, Limbaugh and Palin are adept at finding a market and then mining it for fun and profit. One rarely sees or hears what they really believe. Their wealth earned as media celebraties enables them to live a life we cannot even imagine. Henry Ford made cars and a fortune, Limbaugh, Coulter and Palin speak what a certain market wants and make a fortune.


25 posted on 03/14/2012 3:28:58 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: hinckley buzzard

26 posted on 03/14/2012 3:32:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

OOPS! Celebraties=celebrities


27 posted on 03/14/2012 3:33:38 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Both are schmucks..can’t stand either one of them


28 posted on 03/14/2012 3:34:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: samtheman
"...enter the fray not necessarily to win an office, but to eventually score a gig with Fox News or write a book. We need to be wary, then, of people who might possibly be in it solely for themselves."

Sounds like YOU Ann!

29 posted on 03/14/2012 3:38:49 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where did she mention Palin or Huckabee by name?


30 posted on 03/14/2012 3:47:05 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("For the sake of our party we must stand united, whoever our nominee is."-Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Says the political celebrity.


31 posted on 03/14/2012 4:15:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopaths.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who will want to face the primary process in the future if he knows he can skip it and still be in the battle for the nomination?

I wonder if if is possible to become America's next top model without going on America's Next Top Model? And if not choosing these people by a Reality Show would be a bad thing?

32 posted on 03/14/2012 4:17:57 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Paparazzi mob senior citizen mistaking her for Lindsay Lohan (True Story))
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

At the very beginning of the clip she mentions Palin by name, in a very nasty way.

She’s becoming a nasty old hag reminiscent of the hags and witches of the left.


33 posted on 03/14/2012 4:36:15 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL Project much, Annie?


34 posted on 03/14/2012 6:03:56 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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