RIGHT-WING MOBS? SAY IT ISN'T SO, CONSERVATIVES!

Ann Coulter ^ | 3-12-2014 | Ann Coulter - OP/ED

[smoothsailing]

March 12, 2014

RIGHT-WING MOBS? SAY IT ISN'T SO, CONSERVATIVES!

When I wrote a book about mobs and group-think a few years ago, I could honestly say that mob behavior existed exclusively on the left in America -- unless you count Oakland Raiders tailgate parties, which I do not. As described in Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, the distinctive characteristics of the mob mentality include:

-- Slogans as arguments ("Bush lied, kids died!" "Keep your laws off my body!" "You can't hug a child with nuclear arms");

-- Imperviousness to facts (e.g., the left's refusal to abandon repeatedly disproved canards about Reagan's tax cuts causing the deficit, the Aug. 6th PDB (President's Daily Brief) stating anything relevant about 9/11, and Valerie Plame being an "undercover agent");

-- Acceptance of contradictions (I haven't heard a cavil from MSNBC about Obama's expansion of the Afghanistan war, use of drones and continued operation of Guantanamo -- all deemed "war crimes" in the Bush administration); and

-- Extreme emotional attachment to their leaders combined with a passionate hatred of putative enemies (the burning and decapitations of Bush in effigy, books and movies about Bush's assassination -- even as liberals' publicly discuss their sex fantasies about Clinton and Obama).

To my dismay, some of these mob characteristics can now be found in small pockets on the right.

For months and months, for example, I've been demanding facts -- not shibboleths or epithets -- from the anti-Mitch McConnell brigade.

Here are my facts:

(1) For more than a decade, Sen. Mitch McConnell has stood alone in fighting unconstitutional campaign finance laws, earning him the undying enmity of The New York Times. (The Times is probably the largest contributor to the Senate Conservatives Fund opposing McConnell.)

McConnell took on the entire MSM, as well as members of his own party, principally John McCain and President Bush, who incomprehensibly signed McCain-Feingold into law with the idle musing that the Supreme Court could strike down any unconstitutional parts. (It didn't -- until some of it was finally overturned in Citizens United.)

McConnell was the Ted Cruz of campaign finance laws, leading filibusters to block these outrageous infringements on free speech, writing op-eds and giving speeches denouncing them, and directly suing to have McCain-Feingold declared unconstitutional in McConnell v. FEC.

As McConnell explained (beautifully):

"(T)he political left has always faced an uphill climb in a country in which there are two self-identified conservatives for every self-identified liberal. ... In order to succeed in this environment, liberals have generally resorted to one of (three tactics): obscuring their true intent; pursuing through regulation and the courts what they can't through legislation; or muzzling their critics."

(2) As minority leader, McConnell managed to get every single Republican in the Senate to vote against Obamacare -- even "Strange New Respect" Republicans like John McCain, Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham. No other Republican leader has ever accomplished anything like that.

For example, under Minority Leader Bob Dole, seven Senate Republicans voted for Clinton's 1994 crime bill, which contained the assault weapons ban widely credited with Republicans' sweep of Congress later that year. That's not merely a reflection of Republicans being worse back then: Among the "Ayes" were conservative John Danforth (Mo.) and William Cohen -- as good as you get from Maine.

The importance of a solid Republican vote against Obamacare can hardly be overstated. Thanks to McConnell, there is no confusion about which party is responsible for this widely detested law -- and which party you should vote for to get rid of it.

(3) McConnell tricked Obama into accepting the only spending cuts to the federal government in more than half a century.

Obama originally proposed the sequester on the assumption that its provisions were so harsh, Republicans would never accept it. But McConnell called his bluff and, for the first time since Eisenhower's first term, a bill was signed into law that would impose large-scale spending cuts on the federal government.

Even Ronald Reagan didn't cut federal spending!

McConnell did -- and that was with a Democratic president and a Democratic majority in the Senate. (Imagine what he could do with a Senate majority!)

Unfortunately, that deal was lightly thrown away by Rep. Paul Ryan last month, after he was bamboozled by the stupidest person in America, Sen. Patty Murray. Ryan claimed he jettisoned the spending cuts in order to restore military spending.

I'm sorry, but who cares about military spending as long as Obama is president? At the rate he’s going, Obama might use our military to attack England.

In any event, about a week after Ryan scuttled McConnell's historic budget cuts, Obama's defense secretary announced plans to reduce the Army to its smallest force since before World War II. Good work, Paul!

While we're on the subject, Ryan also supports giving the Democrats 30 million new voters with amnesty. But I don't see the shyster "tea party" groups or talk radio charlatans trying to take out Ryan. Only the guy who cut government spending for the first time in 60 years is on the hit list of the Senate Conservatives Fund and the rest of the fake tea partiers.

(4) On the most important issue -- immigration -- McConnell not only voted against Marco Rubio's amnesty bill, but at the moment, he may be the only thing standing between us and a scheme to import 30 million new Democratic voters. As House Speaker John Boehner works feverishly behind the scenes to push amnesty through, McConnell recently announced that there would be no immigration bill in 2014 (thank almighty God).

There are breathless headlines all over the Internet claiming, "McConnell Supports Amnesty!" but when you click on them, the links don't work and the claims don't make sense.

In fact, over the years, McConnell has voted for:

-- preventing legal immigrants from collecting food stamps (1997);

-- a border fence (2006); and

-- English as the official language of the U.S. government (2007).

He also voted to block federal funds from being sent to so-called "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens (2008). The only amnesty McConnell ever voted for was the one signed by President Reagan in 1986.

I know this from looking up McConnell's actual voting record, as opposed to reading nonsensical jeremiads against McConnell on the RedState blog.

True, McConnell is bad on guest worker programs, but if that's the test, the only Republican senator worth a damn is Jeff Sessions. I don't disagree, but I wish conservatives would mention that to their elected representatives once in a while.

Like Ted Cruz. According to The New York Times, Cruz supports "a path to legal status," with "the goal of allowing (illegal aliens) to stay," and expressly rejects Mitt Romney's idea of "self-deportation." (Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration, Sept. 12, 2013.)

McConnell has never said anything that bad on immigration.

Those are facts. Here's the counter-argument from the anti-McConnell crowd: HE'S A RINO! HE'S AN ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN! HE'S BEEN A TERRIBLE LEADER! MITCH LIED, KIDS DIED!

Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have all the attributes of a mob: Slogans in lieu of logic and evidence, beliefs impenetrable by facts, emotional hatred of the "enemy" and the acceptance of wild contradictions. Isn't Paul Ryan dreamy? Let's run Ted Cruz for president! We love Reagan ... But we hate McConnell for voting with Reagan!

Nothing good has ever been accomplished by a mob.

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[GeronL]

Playing jumprope with the shark

Someday somehow I am stealing that

[RaceBannon]

Is anyone else surprised that I am no longer an Ann Coulter fan?

Defending Mitch Mconnell??

After his comments on the TEA PARTY??

Ann Coulter is now anti tea party if that is her point of view on Mconnell

[the_daug]

I see Ann C is right on.

[Norm Lenhart]

Which she has done for a long time now. As I have said in other Coulter posts, I was a huge fan. I bought her books and loved her columns.

But when I look back and compare her words to her deeds, there is a WHOLE lot of contradiction. And IMO, which I believe her history bears out, she is never again to be trusted. Not openly.

[smoothsailing]

I tell you now, Coulter has been paid off. If you could investigate this, you would see she received a big fat check from a source close to McConnell. She took the money to write this article.

Did "a source close to McConnell" pay her for the article below also?

..........

October 30, 2013

Democrats would never have been in a position to pass Obamacare if both sides of the Republican Party hadn't helped them win elections. The establishment Republicans screwed over our party with their greed, incompetence and lassitude, and the conservative purists screwed our party by running candidates who could not possibly win.

True, the tea party also gave us the majestic Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson, among a few other improvements. But was Dick Lugar really the biggest problem in the U.S. Senate? Wasn't Claire McCaskill a bigger problem?

And why are so many conservatives today burbling about the alleged deficiencies of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell -- while ignoring the actual crimes of Democratic senators like Mary Landrieu from Louisiana, Mark Pryor from Arkansas and Mark Begich from Alaska?

All those Democrats voted for Obamacare -- and they're all up for election next year in states that could easily go Republican. If any one of these senators had voted "no" on Obamacare, it would not be law.

By contrast, McConnell not only voted against Obamacare, but presided over a Senate minority in which every single Republican voted against Obamacare, even that idiot McCain. Kentucky only seems like a red state because McConnell keeps winning elections there: It went for Clinton twice and has had a solid run of Democratic governors since 1947, interrupted by one-term Republican governors only twice in 66 years.

But McConnell is in hot water with Kentucky's "9/12 Project" -- a group with enough marketing savvy to have a name that no one understands.

The project's executive director, Eric Wilson, is hopping mad with McConnell because, when given a choice between raising taxes on all Americans or raising taxes only on those individuals making more than $400,000 a year, he chose to raise taxes only on the high earners.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be a purist, denouncing everyone else as a sellout and hack, while other people do the hard work of getting elected in blue states and preventing even rotten Republicans from voting for Obamacare. You want McConnell to stop all tax hikes? Give him a majority in the Senate.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-10-30.html

[the_daug]

I’m for amnesty because it was the government who encouraged illegal imitation. Right after the last amnesty that Reagan signed that I was against the government didn’t do anything I could see to prevent illegal immigration. In the early nineties I was hiring illegal immigrants cause that was who state job agencies sent out for job request. When I complained that the documents didn’t even look like the guy I’m filling out their i9 form I was threatened to have EOT job discrimination investigation initiated. After that I never asked questions just complied with i9. Amnesty is justice as far as I’m concerned. Ann is right.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The change-of-life is hitting Ann hard.

[Bluestocking]

If Ann was anything like the old Ann Coulter we used to know and love, she would be railing day and night against Mitch McConnell for not initiating impeachment hearings against Obama which he so richly deserves for the many high crimes and misdemeanors he’s committed.

The IRS scandal alone would have energized the old Ann to write a book by now.

This reminds me of the scene in ‘’One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest’’ where the irrepressibly wild and crazy mental patient Randall Patrick McMurphy wakes up after a lobotomy. We know the Establishment has prevailed, and Randall Patrick’s spirit has been lost. How did the Establishment in the form of Mitch McConnell finally prevail over Ann Coulter and make her lose her wild and crazy spirit? I don’t know, but it’s sad.

[smoothsailing]

You say you’re for amnesty and that Ann is right. She’s against amnesty.

[smoothsailing]

Impeachment can only originate in the House.

[shuck and yall]

Good on you mate, posting this, maybe someone can check her facts. If her facts check out, lets follow. If not, lets talk, we are friends here, we all love the country and hate like hell what is being done to her. God bless Jolly, lets win

[smoothsailing]

Thanks. Ann Coulter is a long time friend of Free Republic, her views should always be welcome here.

The Jolly win was great, wasn’t it! 8^)

[rabidralph]

Well, then, let’s just ignore her. No sense in protesting her at appearances or doing any of the things the Left does, she would only use that to make the point she makes in the above article and continue to write about us. Just ignore her. You all just knew this was where she was heading.

[lonevoice]

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[TigersEye]

McConnell took on the entire MSM, as well as members of his own party, principally John McCain and President Bush, who incomprehensibly signed McCain-Feingold into law with the idle musing that the Supreme Court could strike down any unconstitutional parts.

Arguably one of the most un-American laws ever passed.

[ilgipper]

It's the easiest thing in the world to be a purist, denouncing everyone else as a sellout and hack, while other people do the hard work of getting elected in blue states and preventing even rotten Republicans from voting for Obamacare. You want McConnell to stop all tax hikes? Give him a majority in the Senate.

I wonder if Ann is remotely aware of their undercut of the Republican in Alaska to back Murkowski and put her back in the Senate as a Democrat ally. That vote might have been better to have kept in the party. Any problems with Republicans in Virginia openly supporting the Democrat over Cucinelli or Lugar undercutting the man he lost to when it came to for the general? The ONLY purity tests in the Republican party is in the beltway crowd protecting their gravy train.

[Gabz]

There is a word for woman who take money to provide a service.

I know the word to which you refer, however you might wish to rephrase your statement - as anyone who works for pay, man or woman, takes money for services provided.

With that said - she's off the mark here, no doubt.

[X-spurt]

Exactly. Noticed at CPAC she (no pun intended) was planting some Romney seeds, just to get the wishy-washy thinking.

Oh yeah, now and then Ann will spike the hard conservative ball and then turn back to swoon over her GOPe heros.

[smoothsailing]

How true, what a blow to freedom that was. Of course the unions loved it.

[the_daug]

She is right there is a right-wing mob just as moon batty as anything on the left. If I have a piece of property and I built a fence 25 year’s ago a foot in side my neighbors property and nobody challenge it till my neighbor sales the property and the new owners want me to move the fence that’s too bad. The government knew and did nothing. If you ask what that says to the legal immigrants they’re empathetic too cause they know US immigration is broken after dealing with them. The only thing that needs clarification is how amnesty gets implemented and defined. If the rw moon bats want to keep loosing election they should continue.