By Ann Coulter
So now apparently we have to go through the cycle of the media pushing Newt Gingrich. This is going to be fantastic.
In addition to having an affair in the middle of Clintons impeachment; apologizing to Jesse Jackson on behalf of J.C. Watts ... one of two black Republicans then in Congress - for having criticized poverty pimps and then inviting Jackson to a State of the Union address; cutting a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi; supporting George Soros candidate Dede Scozzafava in a congressional special election; appearing in public with the Rev. Al Sharpton to promote nonspecific education reform; and calling Paul Ryans plan to save Social Security right-wing social engineering we found out this week that Gingrich was a recipient of Freddie Mac political money.
(Even I will admit however that Newt was great when he was chairman of GOPAC back in the 90s with Gay Gaines at the helm.)
Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the institutions most responsible for the nations current financial crisis -- were almost entirely Democratic cash cows they managed to dirty up enough Republicans to make it seem like bipartisan corruption.
Democrats sucked hundreds of millions of dollars out of these institutions: Franklin Raines $90 million; Jamie Gorelick $26.4 million; Jim Johnson $20 million.
By contrast Republicans came cheap. For the amazingly good price of only $300000 apiece Fannie and Freddie bought the good will of former Reps. Vin Weber R-Minn. Susan Molinari R-N.Y. and Newt Gingrich R-Ga.* Former Sen. Alfonse DAmato R-N.Y. was even cheaper at $240000.
*Correction: After Gingrich admitted last week to receiving $300000 from Freddie we found out this week that it was actually closer to $1.6 million.
So now conservatives shy away from denouncing these crooked organizations for fear of running into Vin Weber at a cocktail party.
Sorry guys -- on the plus side youre millionaires but on the downside youve earned the contempt of your fellow man.
The mainstream media keep pushing alternatives to Mitt Romney not only because they are terrified of running against him but also because they want to keep Republicans fighting allowing Democrats to get a four-month jump on us.
Meanwhile everyone knows the nominee is going to be Romney.
Thats not so bad if you think the most important issues in this election are defeating Obama and repealing Obamacare.
There may be better ways to stop Obamacare than Romney but unfortunately theyre not available right now. (And by the way where were you conservative purists when Republicans were nominating Waterboarding-Is-Torture-Jerry-Falwell-Is-an-Agent-of-Intolerance-My-Good-Friend-Teddy-Kennedy-Amnesty-for-Illegals John McCain-Feingold for president?)
Among Romneys positives is the fact that he has a demonstrated ability to trick liberals into voting for him. He was elected governor of Massachusetts -- one of the most liberal states in the union -- by appealing to Democrats independents and suburban women.
He came close to stopping the greatest calamity to befall this nation since Pearl Harbor by nearly beating Teddy Kennedy in a Senate race. (That is when he said a lot of the things about which hes since changed his mind.) If he had won wed be carving his image on Mount Rushmore.
He is not part of the Washington establishment so he wont be caught taking money from Freddie Mac or cutting commercials with Nancy Pelosi.
Also Romney will be the first Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan who can talk. Liberals are going to have to dust off their playbook from 30 years ago to figure out how to run against a Republican who isnt a tongue-tied marble-mouth.
As weve known for years his negatives are: Romneycare and Mormonism.
We look forward with cheery anticipation to an explosion of news stories on some of the stranger aspects of Mormonism. The articles have already been written but theyre not scheduled for release until the day Romney wraps up the nomination.
Inasmuch as the Democrats only argument for the big-eared beanpole whos nearly wrecked the country is that you must be a racist if you oppose Obama one assumes a lot of attention will be lavished on the Mormon Churchs historical position on blacks. Church founder Joseph Smith said blacks had the curse of Cain on them and banned blacks from the priesthood a directive that was not revoked until 1978.
Theres no evidence that this was a policy fiercely pushed by Mitt Romney. To the contrary when his father George Romney was governor of Michigan he was the most pro-civil rights elected official in the entire country far ahead of any Democrat.
No one is worried Romney will double-cross us on repealing Obamacare. We worry that Romneycare will make it harder for him to get elected.
But again Romney is the articulate Republican. Hes already explained how mandating health insurance in one particular wealthy liberal Northeastern state is different from inflicting it on the entire country. Our Constitution establishes a federalist system that allows experimentation with different ideas in the individual states.
As governor Romney didnt have the ability to change federal laws requiring hospital emergency rooms to treat every illegal alien drug dealer and vagrant who walked in the door then sending the bill to taxpayers. (Although David Axelrod Michelle Obama Eric Whitaker and Valerie Jarrett did figure out a way to throw poor blacks out of the University of Chicago Medical Center..)
The Heritage Foundation a leading conservative think tank supported Romneycare at the time. The biggest warning sign should have been that Gingrich supported it too.
Most important Romney has said -- forcefully and repeatedly -- that his first day in office he will issue a 50-state waiver from Obamacare and will then seek a formal repeal.
Romney is not going to get to the White House and announce The first thing Im going to do is implement that fantastic national health care plan signed by my pal Barack!
Unlike all other major legislation in the nations history Obamacare was narrowly passed along partisan lines by an aberrationally large one-party majority in Congress. (Thanks McCain supporters!) Not one single Republican in Congress voted for it not even John McCain.
Obamacare is going to be repealed -- provided only that a Republican wins the next presidential election.
If a Republican does not win however it will never be repealed. Recall that in order to boast about the amazing revenue savings under Obamacare Democrats had to configure the bill so that the taxes to pay for it start right away but the goodies dont kick in until 2014.
Once people are thrown off their insurance plans and are forced to depend on the government for free health care Obamacare is here to stay. (And Newt Gingrich will be calling plans to tinker with it right-wing social engineering.)
Instead of sitting on our thumbs wishing Ronald Reagan were around or chasing the latest mechanical rabbit flashed by the media conservatives ought to start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama. Well attack him when hes president.
Its fun to be a purist but lets put that on hold until Obama and his abominable health care plan are gone please.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
By Ann Coulter
So now apparently we have to go through the cycle of the media pushing Newt Gingrich. This is going to be fantastic.
In addition to having an affair in the middle of Clintons impeachment; apologizing to Jesse Jackson on behalf of J.C. Watts ... one of two black Republicans then in Congress - for having criticized poverty pimps and then inviting Jackson to a State of the Union address; cutting a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi; supporting George Soros candidate Dede Scozzafava in a congressional special election; appearing in public with the Rev. Al Sharpton to promote nonspecific education reform; and calling Paul Ryans plan to save Social Security right-wing social engineering we found out this week that Gingrich was a recipient of Freddie Mac political money.
(Even I will admit however that Newt was great when he was chairman of GOPAC back in the 90s with Gay Gaines at the helm.)
Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the institutions most responsible for the nations current financial crisis -- were almost entirely Democratic cash cows they managed to dirty up enough Republicans to make it seem like bipartisan corruption.
Democrats sucked hundreds of millions of dollars out of these institutions: Franklin Raines $90 million; Jamie Gorelick $26.4 million; Jim Johnson $20 million.
By contrast Republicans came cheap. For the amazingly good price of only $300000 apiece Fannie and Freddie bought the good will of former Reps. Vin Weber R-Minn. Susan Molinari R-N.Y. and Newt Gingrich R-Ga.* Former Sen. Alfonse DAmato R-N.Y. was even cheaper at $240000.
*Correction: After Gingrich admitted last week to receiving $300000 from Freddie we found out this week that it was actually closer to $1.6 million.
So now conservatives shy away from denouncing these crooked organizations for fear of running into Vin Weber at a cocktail party.
Sorry guys -- on the plus side youre millionaires but on the downside youve earned the contempt of your fellow man.
The mainstream media keep pushing alternatives to Mitt Romney not only because they are terrified of running against him but also because they want to keep Republicans fighting allowing Democrats to get a four-month jump on us.
Meanwhile everyone knows the nominee is going to be Romney.
Thats not so bad if you think the most important issues in this election are defeating Obama and repealing Obamacare.
There may be better ways to stop Obamacare than Romney but unfortunately theyre not available right now. (And by the way where were you conservative purists when Republicans were nominating Waterboarding-Is-Torture-Jerry-Falwell-Is-an-Agent-of-Intolerance-My-Good-Friend-Teddy-Kennedy-Amnesty-for-Illegals John McCain-Feingold for president?)
Among Romneys positives is the fact that he has a demonstrated ability to trick liberals into voting for him. He was elected governor of Massachusetts -- one of the most liberal states in the union -- by appealing to Democrats independents and suburban women.
He came close to stopping the greatest calamity to befall this nation since Pearl Harbor by nearly beating Teddy Kennedy in a Senate race. (That is when he said a lot of the things about which hes since changed his mind.) If he had won wed be carving his image on Mount Rushmore.
He is not part of the Washington establishment so he wont be caught taking money from Freddie Mac or cutting commercials with Nancy Pelosi.
Also Romney will be the first Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan who can talk. Liberals are going to have to dust off their playbook from 30 years ago to figure out how to run against a Republican who isnt a tongue-tied marble-mouth.
As weve known for years his negatives are: Romneycare and Mormonism.
We look forward with cheery anticipation to an explosion of news stories on some of the stranger aspects of Mormonism. The articles have already been written but theyre not scheduled for release until the day Romney wraps up the nomination.
Inasmuch as the Democrats only argument for the big-eared beanpole whos nearly wrecked the country is that you must be a racist if you oppose Obama one assumes a lot of attention will be lavished on the Mormon Churchs historical position on blacks. Church founder Joseph Smith said blacks had the curse of Cain on them and banned blacks from the priesthood a directive that was not revoked until 1978.
Theres no evidence that this was a policy fiercely pushed by Mitt Romney. To the contrary when his father George Romney was governor of Michigan he was the most pro-civil rights elected official in the entire country far ahead of any Democrat.
No one is worried Romney will double-cross us on repealing Obamacare. We worry that Romneycare will make it harder for him to get elected.
But again Romney is the articulate Republican. Hes already explained how mandating health insurance in one particular wealthy liberal Northeastern state is different from inflicting it on the entire country. Our Constitution establishes a federalist system that allows experimentation with different ideas in the individual states.
As governor Romney didnt have the ability to change federal laws requiring hospital emergency rooms to treat every illegal alien drug dealer and vagrant who walked in the door then sending the bill to taxpayers. (Although David Axelrod Michelle Obama Eric Whitaker and Valerie Jarrett did figure out a way to throw poor blacks out of the University of Chicago Medical Center..)
The Heritage Foundation a leading conservative think tank supported Romneycare at the time. The biggest warning sign should have been that Gingrich supported it too.
Most important Romney has said -- forcefully and repeatedly -- that his first day in office he will issue a 50-state waiver from Obamacare and will then seek a formal repeal.
Romney is not going to get to the White House and announce The first thing Im going to do is implement that fantastic national health care plan signed by my pal Barack!
Unlike all other major legislation in the nations history Obamacare was narrowly passed along partisan lines by an aberrationally large one-party majority in Congress. (Thanks McCain supporters!) Not one single Republican in Congress voted for it not even John McCain.
Obamacare is going to be repealed -- provided only that a Republican wins the next presidential election.
If a Republican does not win however it will never be repealed. Recall that in order to boast about the amazing revenue savings under Obamacare Democrats had to configure the bill so that the taxes to pay for it start right away but the goodies dont kick in until 2014.
Once people are thrown off their insurance plans and are forced to depend on the government for free health care Obamacare is here to stay. (And Newt Gingrich will be calling plans to tinker with it right-wing social engineering.)
Instead of sitting on our thumbs wishing Ronald Reagan were around or chasing the latest mechanical rabbit flashed by the media conservatives ought to start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama. Well attack him when hes president.
Its fun to be a purist but lets put that on hold until Obama and his abominable health care plan are gone please.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
