Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:00:40 PM · by Syncro · 51 replies
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | Feb 15, 2012 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 02/22/2012 3:04:49 PM PST by Syncro
Read More »WHAT'S THEIR PROBLEM WITH ROMNEY?
February 22, 2012As governor of one of the most liberal states in the union, Mitt Romney did something even Ronald Reagan didn't do as governor of California: He balanced the budget without raising taxes.
Romney became deeply pro-life as governor of the aforementioned liberal state and vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill. (Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich lobbied President George W. Bush to allow embryonic stem cell research.)
Romney's approach to illegal immigration in Massachusetts resembled what Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona is doing today, making her a right-wing heroine.
Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obamacare in the crib by solving the health insurance problem at the state level.
Unlike actual Establishment candidates, Romney has never worked in Washington, much less spent his entire life as a professional politician. He's had a Midas touch with every enterprise he has ever run, including Bain Capital, the Olympics and Massachusetts.
The chestnut about Mitt Romney being pushed on unsuspecting conservatives by "the Establishment" is the exact opposite of the truth. The Establishment, by any sensible definition, is virulently opposed to Romney -- and for completely contradictory reasons.
The entire NFM (non-Fox media) hate Romney because he is the only candidate who stands a chance of beating Obama.
Meanwhile, many of the pillars of the conservative establishment also implacably oppose Romney. Fox News is neutral, but its second-highest-rated host, Sean Hannity, is anti-Romney, as is prominent Fox News contributor Sarah Palin -- who has also offered herself up as a possible presidential nominee at a contested convention. (Wouldn't a former candidate for vice president on a major party's ticket be part of the Establishment?)
The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney -- though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only gotten better since then.
“Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com”
No, thanks. She’s dead to me.
LOLOL!
Putting the “stab” in “establishment”???
Extremely creative doesn’t even begin to describe it!
I, and the smallish number of other Republicans who actually got themselves to the polls, vowed to support whomsoever came out of the convention as THE candidate. Holding our noses, we did what we perceived as our duty to God, Country, and Party. By the time McCain (An incompetent fool with unlimited beer money) got around to fouling the well with as series of truly stupid moves, culminating in back-stabbing Palin, it was too late!
The Coulter-type people don't believe Romney is a "Conservative" any more than you or I do. The rationale is that he is the "Middle of the Roader" who can beat The Mombasa MF ... because these Rovians thought that ANYONE could beat the Mombasa Marxist and that a RINO would be the least likely to upset the lucrative GOP status quo. As a secondary thought, they figured that Romney could lose, but bring strength "downticket" to give The GOP control of Congress, which is what they really want and don't mind at all losing the WH for.
The scenario ... and let's face it, largely stimulated by the MSM's feverish promotion of the Republican primaries and "debates" ... has spiraled out of the RINO GOP Establishment's control. Establishment's control. Establishment's control.
Ann, bless her skinny little heart, is a RINO Establishment Republican Cocktail Circuit Washington DC Regular Log Cabin Democrat-Dating Wall Street TV Fashionista, not a Woman of The Main Street Republicans. In the lock-step RINO Establishment School of Thought, she and her coterie also feel that Romney might appeal to "independents," although they are not sure! (RINOs have never figured out that "Independent Voter" = "Democrat Voter!" )
She is turning into Adrianna Huffington with every breath.
Ann has become a bitter clinger.
A free market in health care was not in the cards. Federal law and regulations require that any emergency room treat anyone with a need. The options are:
1. Enslave doctors, nurses, and nationalize hospitals.
2. Steal from other ER patients, to cover expenses of ‘free’ care to indigents
3. Require health insurance with a big enough fine for non-compliance so you would chose to comply with the law.
4. Require health insurance with a small fine for non-compliance and subsidize the government program to cover costs from taxes and borrowing.
1 and 2 are not conservative. They are communist or anarchist.
3 is conservative.
4 is essentially Obamacare and not conservative.
The federal government mandate causes the problem. As a state governor, you can’t change federal laws.
What would be a good solution? In a free republic if you wanted to help pay for the health care of the indigent, you would not be stopped. Nor would you be forced.
Thanks for the bump!
Romney’s law in Mass. was not a national health care, but was in response to a federal law requiring treatment regardless of the ability to pay at emergency rooms. Mass is a state.
Ayn Rand was not a lesbian, closeted or otherwise.
You make me laugh.
I am kind of amused. We have a situation here: Newt, a Catholic has had 3 wives, and Romney, the Mormon, only one.
So people spin Romney as a pervert, and Gingrich with his record of numerous affairs as moral.
I see Santorum and Newt as liberal big government types. McCain aka McBackstabber, was never the Republican establishment. Romney was his conservative opposition.
O the irony of it all.
Right off the bat we get lies based on smoke and mirrors from Ms Coulter. Is it a 'tax' when they raise fees 700 million bucks? We didn't use the offensive word "tax", so taking extra money from us hand over fist must not count as a tax.
As Santorum pointed out last night, a balanced budget is the law in Massachusetts. By that standard, he said, Michael Dukakis should be president, because he had more balanced budgets than Romney did.
Ann Coulter must have learned the fine art of lying from her liberal cohorts. It appears to have rubbed off all the way to her innards.
Thanks for sparking interest in this thread by bumping it to the latest posts page.
You’re just toying with us now, aren’t you? :)
Hmmmm...
That's twice now (Post #57 too) that you've "thanked" me for posting on this thread. I can only assume that you're being sarcastic, and that you're angry with me for my post # 9, wherein I succinctly stated that I would NOT go to anncoulter.com to read any more of her logic-twisting drivel.
However, if you're NOT being sarcastic with me, then I'm quite happy to say "You're welcome." I will happily bump any thread that has you as the original poster.
That said, know this: I will NOT give Ann Coulter hits on her private blog.
Why should I, Syncro?
I'm getting out my phenomonol magnet to pick up all this iron(y)
Not only that, the GOP was in on it too.
They, the dems, and the Soros' of the world combined their efforts to put Obama in the white house.
They all wanted to be part of the historical event of having a "black" in the presidentcy.
Didn't matter to them who it was, just so he was NOT conservative.
The Scent of a Bias or sumpin’ like that.
*sigh* If only she was biased because of her affection for me...oh well.
She would be writing conservatively again!
I did get her on the defensive, that's why she said this:
Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obamacare in the crib by solving the health insurance problem at the state level. (Of course, that would cause all the other states to use almost half of their budgets to fund those monstrosities)Note the addition to the title in my post of her last weeks column:
Ann Coulter: COMMUNISM BY INSURANCE MANDATE (Nationalized RomneyCare)Let's face it, I've got her on the run...
But.. but Ann! Isn't that a tacit admission that such a problem exists?
Isn't that letting the left dictate the narrative? Like with global warming?
Let's face it, I've got her on the run...
Indeed.
She'll fall into line any day now. I have no doubt.
Thanks for clicking on the thread!
Thanks for bumping this thread to latest posts!
The 57 th state? And is it a lesbien?
And why would you think that Romney’s law in Mass. was national health care??
LOL busted!...heh
LOL,, not not angry at all!
I just like to post to people that don't like Coulter's stuff, yet they make it more avaiable by bumping the thread.
I will happily bump any thread that has you as the original poster.
Well thank you very much Flycatcher, I'm humbled.
Oh, and yes I was earlier being sarcastic and thankful!
And if anyone goes to Coulter's webpage or not, not an issue with me.
I'm just making her weekly columns avaiable for those that wish to comment on them.
Or not comment by replying to the thread...
For a while there, I thought "whiskey at breakfast time" might be a contributing factor.
“You know, Ann, your mind appears to be clouded by some school-girl crush but think about this. If ALL your former allies are on the other side of this issue, it is probably not them who are thinking incorrectly. How’s it feel to be standing side-by-side with your old “buddy” John McCain and all the other faux-conservatives you used to detest?”
WELL SAID!
“Ann: how long do you have to live in places like Manhattan or Washington, DC before Ruling Class Envy takes hold of your senses and shakes them into an intoxicated state of drooling subservience?
Our problem with Romney is the same “problem” that you would have had, once: he’s not a conservative. He’s not interested in conservative ideas. He has no core beliefs other than Mitt Romney. The GOP Establishment does love him, and they do so because he reflects their deepest value: masochism. They love to be beaten.
Look: it’s not us, Ann. It’s you. If you can still hear me and comprehend: get your bony ass out of Washington. It’s destroying your mind. And you might want to eat a couple of bacon cheeseburgers on the way out of town, if only because liberals would disapprove. Besides: real men like women who look like women, not like some gay fashion director’s idyllic vision of a woman, which is, in reality, a pale young boy with haunted eyes.”
This is entirely Fabulous!
Well I do have a couple of friends named Glen...Levit and Feddich, but I don’t let them influence me in the morning!
Lol.
:)
All she needs to do is reconstruct her accent.
Dahling...
It’s so hard for me to read her support of Romneycare as some sort of conservative solution to health care.
I can quit her...
I’ll bump it again. ;o)
Mitt is a watery republican. He can be all things. Like a blank sheet of paper.
I will vote for him if he gets the nod. After voting for Mccain I can do anything. But in the primaries it will be Rick for me.
Mitt is a watery republican. He can be all things. Like a blank sheet of paper.
I will vote for him if he gets the nod. After voting for Mccain I can do anything. But in the primaries it will be Rick for me.
It's one of the signs of the Apocalypse...
As is quoting a "ghostbusters" movie... ;-)
Thank you Ann!!! Great article!
You are of course welcome to vote for who you like. Mitt has some management experience, and that may be useful in a President. Giving speeches is also useful, but the fellow in there now gives speeches.
There certainly is a long list of things that are wrong with Romney. Being worse than obama is not one of them.
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