Posted on 08/09/2012 6:54:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, inquiring conservatives on Twitter are asking: Er, isn't Ann Coulter herself famously a big fan of RomneyCare?
Answer: Yeah, but I'm not sure it's Andrea Saul's mention of RomneyCare that's really bugging her. Mediaite's transcript:
“Her response was not that it was despicable, not that Bain… that Romney had left Bain five years earlier or the woman died five years after the plant closed and didn’t even get her insurance from her husband, her response was, ‘Well, if she had lived in Massachusetts with Mitt Romney’s health care plan, she would have had health insurance.’ Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to say if Andrea Saul isn’t fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime, because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has…
There’s no point in you doing your show, there’s no point in going to the convention and pushing for this man if he’s employing morons like this. This ad is the turning point and she has nearly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! She should be off the campaign.”
I think she’s irritated mainly because Saul is playing Obama’s game by treating the steelworker ad as legitimate. You don’t respond to a smear like that by addressing it on the merits; you respond by explaining why it’s a smear and how it reveals just what a fraud the Hopenchange aura is. It’s an opportunity to attack with righteous fury, and somehow Saul blew it by stepping on her own message with the health-care aside. Beyond that, it’s not inconsistent for Coulter to worry that touting RomneyCare might alienate other conservatives even if it wouldn't necessarily alienate her. You can support legalizing gay marriage while also grasping that Romney endorsing SSM would destroy him with social conservatives and all but end his chances to win. She’s taking a similar position here, I think. Whatever her own feelings, flying the flag of RomneyCare at this point is not a good move. Or am I giving her too much credit and she really has flipped 180 on this issue?
It is impossible to be as stupid as the spokestwit seemed. Therefor there must be an underling truth on what the campaign and Romney really believe.... Romney is Obama in a plain white wrapper.
1) Neither have a friendship with the truth
2) Both surround themselves with morons
3) Neither offer a articulation of conservative principles or a strong defense of free market capitalism
4) Both love socialized medicine and central planning
It is irrelevant who wins in November. Totalitarianism is our destiny
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So, now we are treated to a replay of same 2008 numbnuts campaigning that allowed McCain to shoot himself in the foot every chance he got.
If Romney and McCain ran as torrid and nasty a campaigns as they wage against conservatives in their own party, Obama would be back in Chicago selling pencils on the street corner.
LLS
The milk toast response from the GOP and last weeks vote in the house to allow some presidential appointments to go through without the approval of congress adds more fuel to the theory that the GOP is being rapidly assimilated by the communists just like what happened to the Democrats.
They are in a good ole boys/girls club and want to keep their grasp on power. Seems they are willing to lose elections here and there as long as they have their turn at bat occasionally.
For right now, in 2012, I see no legal alternative to keep our country away from full communist domination other than the slim hope given by the Tea Party.
Does anyone realize how much damage unchallenged presidential appointees can do to this country by completely bypassing our elected representatives and regulating us to death?
You cannot come up with a valid reason the GOP would have surrendered in this manner other than the assimilation is now past 50%.
I guess each state can decide that for itself. I am not saying I support socialized medicine. I don’t. Only that states should make that decision, not the feds.
LLS
Re: she should be fired...she didnt even refute the talking points of the ad. her response was lame and to people against gov. healthcare she probably turned some off.
A classic example of bringing a knife to a gunfight.
ALL of Romney’s advisors need firing. Saul’s just the most obvious at this moment. Which one of the “guys” decided that Romney should say nothing about CFA? Which one of them thought integrating gays into the Boy Scouts was a great idea? Who released the sterling list of Convention speakers that highlighted McCain but eschewed Palin and scheduled Newt as a panel moderator? Who came up with “Obamaloney”? (The Romney ad on welfare was spot on—where’s the team’s defense against Obama’s objections to it?) THIS is Romney’s crack brain-machine?
YOU BET Coulter’s right. The problem is that she’s thinking micro instead of macro.
but we know who she REALLY is now, don't we? She can't hide any more.
She's already on my list of people who are DEAD TO ME NOW because they do not agree with 100% of everything I think.
When he ran for governor here, most of the party thought one Jim Rappaport would be an excellent choice for lieutenant governor. Mitt dug in his heels and fought harder against that than I ever saw him fight about anything else. I didn't even know who Rappaport was, but someone who knows local politics better than I said that Rappaport was his own man and wouldn't be a lapdog for Mitt.
Mitt finally chose Kerry Healey, a political novice (but rich, or maybe her husband was). And Healey was apparently content to obey the old advice to children, "Speak when spoken to; do as you're bid!"
But hopefully you're having fun.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, Ann is right on this one.
Like you, I don’t doubt for a moment these are Romney’s ideas. But that’s why you hire a team of advisors! Sarah Palin wouldn’t have needed such a team—she has actual, long-held ideas that resonate. Romney doesn’t, and it’s a campaign’s duty to learn and act on that. McCain, of course, had the same problem. And, surprise, surprise, the teams are virtually identical. What’s that definition of insanity again . . .?
You tell her Professor! I’ve had enough of republicans who are tougher on other repub’s than they are on Dems.
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