The Elephant in the Room
By Ann Coulter
Human Events
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them.
In contrast to Michigan's foul weather, New Hampshire was balmy on primary day, allowing McCain's base -- Democrats -- to come out and vote for him.
Assuming any actual Republicans are voting for McCain -- or for liberals' new favorite candidate for us, Mike Huckabee -- this column is for you.
Human Events
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them.
In contrast to Michigan's foul weather, New Hampshire was balmy on primary day, allowing McCain's base -- Democrats -- to come out and vote for him.
Assuming any actual Republicans are voting for McCain -- or for liberals' new favorite candidate for us, Mike Huckabee -- this column is for you.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 8:03 PM
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I've been casually taking swipes at Mitt Romney for the past year based on the assumption that, in the end, Republicans would choose him as our nominee. My thinking was that Romney would be our nominee because he is manifestly the best candidate.
Ann, I'd like to introduce you to Rush Limbaugh. He can show you how that water-carrying is done properly.
I note that while Ann spends a considerable amount of the column berating The Huckster for being a panderer, she slips quietly past Romney's shameless pandering to local interests by offering the distinctly un-conservative hand of government subsidies. In Iowa it was bio-fuels, in Michigan, it's government bailouts of the auto industry.
Stick with beating on Democrats, Ann. Praising Republicans doesn't seem to be one of your strong suits.
One other note, and this is for you anonymous, Ann doesn't even mention Thompson in this article.
All things considered, if Thompson is the supposed savior of the GOP, and if he is the new incarnation of Reagan, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect Ann to be girlishly giggly over the prospect of Fred's potential occupation of the Oval Office?
The answer is in the first third of the article. Ann despises John McCain. For now, she's holding fire on his twin brother, but should Thompson do well in South Carolina, which he probably will, Ann may be prompted to write on exactly that subject. It could be interesting.
How can any conservative vote for Romney?
He was listed as one of the top ten Republicans in Name Only by Human Events Magazine.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11129
What will he be after the primary?
And would he be another George Bush if he gets elected?
And would he be another George Bush if he gets elected?
The short answer is yes and no. I wouldn't look for Romney to do the utterly stupid things that Bush has done, like nominating his secretary for the Supreme Court or making one of his hunting buddies head of FEMA. On the other hand, Romney has the potential of making Bush look good when it comes to expanding social programs and their related spending.
Huckabee is the one most likely to be Bush III out of the pack. Behind him I would pick McCain or Thompson with Romney an extremely close fourth (third if you consider that McCain and Thompson are the same person).
From National Review Online:
A friend brought to my attention an interview that Mike Huckabee did with CNN this morning, which is currently available on his website. In the interview, Huckabee calls the Constitution a “living, breathing document,” a phrase that should send shudders down the spine of any conservative concerned about the Supreme Court.
But if you watch the entire interview, it appears as if Huckabee is more clueless when it comes to the Constitution than he is dangerous. He used the phrase in explaining his comments this week that we need to amend the Constitution to please the Almighty (I’m paraphrasing a bit there, I realize). In that context, he explained that the Constitution is intended to be amended through the constitutional process, a correct observation. But in describing that amendment process, he said that the Constitution is a “living breathing document written in order that it could be changed.”
Now I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I prefer to think of the Constitution as a “dead document,” as Justice Scalia describes it. Huckabee’s comments raise questions about whether he understands the Constitution at all, and whether he could be trusted to appoint judges who understand their limited role in our government of separated powers.
I'm guessing Huckabee understands the Constitution about as well as he understands the Bible: not at all.
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