Coulter Defends Romney

Mitt Romney tells people he won't fire federal workers or cut education spending. He says he'll spend more on the military. He sounds like a big-government guy. Or is he just pandering for votes?

Romney says he'll repeal Obamacare. Great! But he wants to keep popular parts: coverage for pre-existing conditions and keeping grown kids on their parents' policies until age 26. Those mandates are popular. But that's not insurance. That's welfare.

"If we do not repeal Obamacare in the next few years, America takes the first step into 1,000 years of darkness. ... Romney is far more free market than any recent Republican candidate, including George Bush. What Romney is talking about here is the free market."

"If it's popular, it will be provided on the free market. There are insurance products we can't even think of, including buying insurance for your unborn children. ... The problem with health care -- and the reason Romneycare was a libertarian solution for a governor to provide because the governor can't repeal all the federal government stuff -- is that right now, you already have government intervention. Government pays for nearly 50 percent of all health care in America. It is already 50 percent socialist. Romney is going to roll it back, apply free-market magic, and everything you want covered is going to be covered."

But he says he will force every insurance company to cover pre-existing conditions.

"He's not saying 'force.' ... The free market will cover it. I promise you that's what he means."

Really? He does say, "Pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan." That sounds like force. A free market is voluntary. But I decided to move on.

Romney wants to increase military spending. America is going broke, and yet we still spend about as much on "defense" as all other countries combined. How can we afford this?

"For one thing, I do trust Romney to cut a lot of government -- more than Ronald Reagan did. That's why we need Romney right now as much as we needed Reagan in 1980. This is a free-market guy. He saved companies from going into bankruptcy. He saved the Olympics from going into bankruptcy. In Massachusetts -- the Soviet Union -- he balanced the budget and cut taxes. You need someone who'll go through the budget line by line and look at the things that can be cut."

"With a booming economy we're going to have under Romney, we will have so much money we won't know where to spend it."

I moved on again. In one debate with Obama, Romney said, "I don't have any plan to cut education funding." He doesn't? Why not? Education is a local responsibility. The federal government wastes $100 billion every year, intruding on local schools. But Romney won't even cut that?

"But I will just say in his defense ... he said, 'We want to send that money to the parents.' He's talking about vouchers there."

My last complaint about Romney was his promise to label China a currency-manipulator, and if China doesn't respond, raise tariffs. So he wants a trade war? That would hurt everyone. And raising tariffs means Americans pay more for things.

"You're having a kneejerk reaction to the word 'tariffs.' ... That's not the issue. The issue is the intellectual (property) theft. ... Every libertarian I know is very concerned about intellectual theft."

Well, some libertarians don't think that's theft, but that's another story. Romney mostly talks about the Chinese currency, not intellectual property, and yet currency manipulation is something our Federal Reserve has been known to do. If China devalues its currency, Chinese people suffer, but we Americans get to buy cheaper products. We win!

Coulter dodged my argument. "If we continue for five more seconds on currency manipulation," Coulter said, "I'm going to need a bottle of NoDoz."

Ann Coulter is defending a liberal Republican!

Ann's being disingenuous with Stossel by not admitting the obvious warts of Mitt's liberalism, and how his administration would likely resemble Gerald Ford's or G.H.W. Bush's than Ronald Reagan's.

By defending him up and down the line and refusing to discuss certain topics that can't be spun for Mittens, she checks her cred at the door in exchange for an invitation to the insiders' victory ball.

I wish she wouldn't do stuff like this. You can concede the obvious, that Mittens is better than drooling, mad-dog Marxists, without going to the wall for him across the board.

No not at all... but if Mitt does half of what he has promised to do... we will be well set for a Conservative to implement the real changes needed. Mitt will kill off obamacare... yes we will get mittcare but the gop will be voting and shaping it and NOT the communist party USA... he will restore fear in our enemies... stop the Military cuts... increase security for our embassies and help cut taxes and regulations on my business and he does not hate America and he is not a muslim. For now... contrasted with obama... it is enough.

LLS

No other candidate that was running for the GOP could do as well in this election as Romney is doing.

No other candidate could have made the case for saving the economy.

No other candidate would be +19 or +20 with independents like Romney is.

I would have paid real money to watch Gingrich go against 0bama in the debates. Mitt did good, Newt would have whooped his @$$. The cartoons drawn over that would have been priceless.

The reason I say only Mitt could do it... I mean, Mitt has a total record of economic success. He has a line of people a mile long that give personal stories of how Mitt Romney helped and inspired them.

Rush says that Mitt Romney is a 100 miles from a scandal. (Meaning there is none) Good family man. A really good role model for ...well everyone. Shares his belief in God with out hesitation.

Seems to me that Mitt Romney is just the right person that we would want to be running the country.

He's not perfect... none of us are.

With all that going for him, he still has to fight to get the majority of people to vote for him. I just don't see that any of the others could have pulled that off.

I would have paid real money to watch Gingrich go against 0bama in the debates. Mitt did good, Newt would have whooped his @$$. The cartoons drawn over that would have been priceless.

It would have been delightful to watch. Even the MSM would have been forced to concede the debates to Gingrich.

Who would be 10 points behind Obama right now.

Until we return to an era when the message once again matters more than the look and feel of the messenger, we have to play the game as it is.

I believe GOD gives us whom we deserve and I certainly hope for a reprieve from Obama. So, yes, for that I am grateful to God and for Romney being there. No conservative will ever again be president.

I’m stuck now wondering what God has in mind for us with Romney, should he win. I mean there is that record of his that is an abomination to social conservatives. You can say it was MA made him do it, but ouch on trying that one. You know what I mean?

I just pray through all decaying conditions in our country believing I know exactly why they have been allowed to come upon us.

Until we return to an era when the message once again matters more than the look and feel of the messenger, we have to play the game as it is.

I agree.

I think we need someone that has a message palatable to the masses. Once in, he can lead by example.

I'm not sure people will ever return to the days of the message over appeal.

I mean, you can't be chasing the quick fix, the quick gratification, fast emotion, weak mindedness that is our social fabric now. Then expect people to all of a sudden have some deep thought once every four years...

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