And there is more where that came from!
Ann Coulter at CPAC 2011 - Question & Answer Session - 2/12/11
At approx. the 10:00 min mark.
Santorum is not my first choice (she’s not running), nor is he even my first choice among those who are running. In fact Santorum is my last choice among those still effectively in the race - ahead of Paul and Romney but neither of them are acceptable choices. However, at least Santorum is a choice, unlike Romney who will not under any circumstances get my vote. While yesterday was mostly a beauty contest, the message is that no one likes Romney. I despise the man and will not vote for him, and a significant majority of republicans and all conservatives can’t stand Romney. The GOP establishment needs to stop trying to ram Romney down our throats and start looking for a candidate who can win. Santorum is one of several who might win, and I congratulate him on a good week.
Santorum’s stuning Leftist beebers everywhere!
Rush is on the money here:
“The Republican Party had better understand here that the people who are not voting for Romney are not doing it because I’m telling them to, or because anybody else is telling them to. They’re doing it because they genuinely have a problem with Romney. And they’re doing it because in Santorum’s case, as I’ve been saying the past couple of weeks, if you’re looking for a conservative who is the least corrupted, who has the least number of periods of wandering off the reservation, if you’re looking for a conservative who’s never sat down with Nancy Pelosi on the couch for any reason, you get Rick Santorum. And people know this.”
Santorum is out rallying support because he's the last real conservative still standing, and he is running as a conservative. He's not cloudy about it at all. There's no doubt about what and who Santorum is. So the question isn't: Well, does he have broad appeal? The question is: "Does conservatism -- properly explained, cheerfully proclaimed have broad appeal? Can conservatism win over converts with the strength of its argument?" And there's no question that it can! It does every time it's tried.
Maybe celebrity endorsements hurt.
Shortly after Trump endorses Romney ... 3 losses.
Palin all but endorsing Gingrich ... nada
Newt Gingrich is too old and too fat to beat 0bama. I know that his white toupee and fat belly should not matter, but it does. There is no way that the Mormon bishop will beat 0bama. I really believe that Santorum is our best chance to take the White House and save this country.
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Establishment isn’t worried - they do not play by our rules.
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Finally! A front runner I can get behind since the Cain train derailed!
FU KARL ROVE!
I woke up to “Fox and Friends” playing Santorum’s speach, and it was like music to my ears. Add about 10 years and he will be ‘Reaganesque’.
I would love to see Gingrich/Santorum this go’round, for 16 years of conservatism.
I think Gingrich has grown up and will tear down what he can, and Santorum will finish the job.
ANYONE OF THESE BUT ROMNEY
It's not stupidity that has conservatives falling for "He can win;" it's fear, desperation, and a general sense of powerlessness. The reason is simple, since Coolidge there has never been a single conservative government. Not one. We have never been in power.
That's why.
Fewer than 70,000 Republicans out of a million registered bothered to go. It's very easy for a candidate or interest group to pack them.
The reason is because they don't decide anything. It is a nonbinding straw poll. All the caucuses really do is elect someone to go to the county convention, which elects people to go to the state convention, which elects delegates to the national convention.
I agree the result is a big surprise, but way to much is being read into Colorado.
The establishment needs to be shocked!
I’m interested in what happened in Colorado. As most FR people know Romney received 60% of the Republican vote in 2008. Has there been a demographic shift? What percentage of the Mormon vote did Romney receive Tuesday?
I am so tired of these Romney backers like this Charlotte Hays women Rush quotes who fall back on the “electability” argument instead of being HONEST about why they’re supporting Romney. The Republican Romney backers I’ve known are not just social moderates, they are anti-religious bigots. They look down their noses with disdain and mockery at social/religious conservatives. They are VERY happy to not talk about abortion because they are VERY happy with the status quo. And their new issue is gay marriage...the only thing that surpasses their desire to legalize gay marriage is their disdain and distaste for the people who DON’T want to legalize it.
I disagree with Rush on several things. I understand more why Newt wants to be president than why Rick does. Newt has been very clear that he wants to radically change Washington and fix the broken system. Rick hasn’t been nearly as clear on the “theme” for his presidency. Ron Paul is pretty darn clear as well. Mitt is obviously the one who’s not clear at all.
I disagree that Reagan was the last time we tried to sell conservatism to the public. 1994 and Newt’s Contract with America was the last time and domestically it was even more important and significant than the Reagan revolution. Reagan’s greatest triumph was on foreign policy.
I also disagree that Rick is getting support because he’s the last conservative or whatever Rush said. Rick is getting support because people, rightly or wrongly, are buying into the line that Newt is unelectable (they just haven’t swallowed the corresponding story that Mitt IS electable). People know Newt is a true conservative, all the exit polls have shown it. No one is buying the UTTER NONSENSE that Newt is not a rock-solid conservative.
Who will it be?
"SANTORUM: Well, look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights. And we saw that just in the last week with a group of people -- a small group of people: Just Catholics in the United States of America."
Someone has said, "One man, plus truth, is an army."
Dr. Leonard Read (FEE): "Every good movement in the history of the world has been led by an infinitesimal minority. . . the perfect example, Jesus of Nazareth. Edmund Burke wrote, 'How often has public calamity been arrested on the very brink of ruin by the seasonable energy of a single man?' just a few - ONE - is enough."
Three Republican candidates--Paul, Gingrich and Santorum--seem to understand and be able to articulate the ideas of individual freedom which underlie the U. S. Constitution.
This most recent affront to the Constitution's protections by the Obama Administration, combined with other intrusions over the past 3 years, could be the catalyst for a real leader to emerge who will lead citizens to rediscover the ideas which made America a destination for oppressed people.
Economic freedom is only one dimension of the Founders' concept of liberty. Today's jobs and economic problems will resolve themselves if America turns back to the path laid out by President Jefferson in his First Inaugural:
"The essential principles of our Government... form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety." --1st Inaugural Address, 1801
