Posted on 01/04/2012 2:42:58 PM PST by Syncro
IOWA SHOWS REPUBLICANS DETERMINED TO BEAT OBAMA
January 4, 2012It's been a mixed week for Mitt Romney's campaign. On one hand, Romney won Iowa, but on the other, he was endorsed by John McCain.
Until the first actual votes were cast Tuesday night, it appeared as if some elements of the Republican Party were becoming the mirror image of a liberal mob.
The wild swings -- at least in the polls -- from one populist right-winger to another suggested that some Republicans were determined to change the meaning of "conservative" from "normal person who wants to protect what's best in mainstream America" to "perpetually indignant, restless carper against everything, obsessed with symbolic issues, determined to punish the country for its impurities."
Some Republicans, we were led to believe, would only be satisfied with angry denunciations of Obama as a Kenyan colonialist and demands for Barack Obama's birth certificate -- without ever spending five minutes of calm contemplation to see that he had already produced it.
And if there's anyplace for a zealot to shine, it's in a caucus state like Iowa.
But Romney won -- in a razor-close finish with another plausible candidate, Rick Santorum.
The reason the Iowa caucuses rarely produce the party's eventual nominee is not because Iowans are wacky white Christians, as some in the media have claimed, but because caucuses are ridiculous ways to choose a presidential candidate. It is a process that empowers the pushy and loud, much like a Manhattan co-op board meeting, but, unfortunately, not like anything envisioned by our founding fathers.
Instead of arguing for hours in public with partisans in order to cast a ballot, voters are supposed to put on their shoes, fight off the Black Panthers on the way to their precincts, vote in private and go home.
So the fact that the Iowa caucuses avoided giving the gold to Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul or some other sure-to-lose candidate shows that Republicans are dead serious about beating Obama this fall. Even in Iowa, the only Republican with a chance of doing that won. Read More »
Ninety five pound blondes don’t scare me.
Ann has turned into Peggy Noonan. She even uses the insult “right winger,” just like the NY Times would.
Btw, how much did you pay for Annie's endorsement?
THAT is the quintessential ideology of a republican blue blood elitist.
LLS
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Note to Ann Coulter: Maybe you should let your hair grow out brown. After all, the harsh chemicals used to bleach your hair is clearly affecting your reasoning ability.
Dear Ann,
You have gone off the deep end.
Sincerely,
A Right Winger
Ann is unapologetic about her position, that is for sure. I wonder how much hate mail she gets.
Shut up and go have another cocktail with your GOP-E pals, Ann.
Don’t give her columns readers.
PLUS, what was the COST per VOTE for Mitt? Anyone seen that? I saw a cost per vote for Perry somewhere....
Man, never thought I’d see the day that Ann typed “right-winger” in an article of hers in the exact same way that Alan friggin’ Colmes would too. Sad.
There, Ms. Coulter, fixed it for you.
It's amazing the degree of deep seated hatred in the vitriolic comments that people post there.
Yes, some death threats.
She has excellent security of course.
What an extraordinary thing for a "right-winger conservative" to say. Similar to Newt saying that Paul Ryan's budget plan was "right-wing social engineering."
The only way either of these comments make sense is if neither speaker - Newt or Ann - is a right-wing conservative anymore.
Fixed it.
It's a wash.
IMO it's important to post her columns here at Free Republic.
what was the COST per VOTE...
Perry, $400
Robney, $160
Santorum, less than $1
Here are the vote getters in the last several caucuses, FWIW. In instances where there was a non-incumbent, it picked the nominee exactly 50% of the time. Ann used the word :rarely” to describe how often the nominee was the same as the winner. That is a lie. Rush was doing it too. Not sure what his game is though.
2008 – Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
2004 – George W. Bush (unopposed)
2000 – George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
1996 – Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
1992 – George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1988 – Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
1984 – Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1980 – George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
1976 – Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan
Sad, so sad.
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