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Don’t Blame Romney, Says Ann Coulter

Though what she really means is, “Don’t blame me.”

Don’t blame me for shilling pathetically for Romney during the primaries, when anyone could see that a guy with so little charisma, so obviously fake, and so obviously unprincipled, was unelectable.

That’s what she’s saying.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • John B campise

    Wow. She’s actually blaming Ron Paul for keeping Romney in the primaries too long. And she’s blaming “purist” candidates for screwing it up.

    What so next time we need someone MORE spineless than Romney? Is that even possible?
    Give me a break!

  • http://twitter.com/Nicendeth Nick Bagnall

    Haha, perfect candidate alright, if you’re trying to pick the best clone of his opponent. He’s a doppleganger.

  • Anonymous

    Coulter seems oblivious to the irony that her infatuation with the corpulent police state goon Chris Christie actually put the final nail in Mitt’s coffin. Christy’s very self serving and repugnant swooning over Obama in the last days before the election must have done considerable damage to “the perfect candidate” and Coulter
    helped make that possible.

    Having said that, I think she is right about these idiotically self destructive Tea Party Senate candidates. Akin and Mourdock had Senate seats all but handed to them on a silver platter and pissed it away with amazingly stupid comments, almost as if they wanted to lose all along. Can we now admit that the Tea Party was a flash in the pan and has been largely ineffective as a political force?

    Ms. Coulter is, in the final analysis, just as delusional and cowardly as the rest of the NeoCon-Zionist warmonger faction that has turned the stupid party in to the stupid and irrelevant party. The trend is ominous. Slowly but surely Crazyfornia is becoming the template for Republican irrelevance and failure nationwide. If you want to see the future of The Republic come to California and despair.

  • http://twitter.com/Nicendeth Nick Bagnall

    I also found myself agreeing with the fact Social Conservatives have been torpedoing themselves out of existence. Freedom is a winning platform… if only the party believed in it.

  • Efrem

    Am I reading this right? Ann Coulter saying that the “purist” Barry Goldewater nearly destroyed the Republican Party? Well Ann, all I can say is “go fly a kite.”

  • guest

    Who’s “unelectable” now?

  • JRT

    Tom you might do a Youtube on Ann Coulter and Romney!

  • guest

    There was so much political correctness in that article. Holy smokes.

    I think we need MORE purists, so as to make the political parties irrelevant. Aren’t we supposed to be for INDIVIDUAL liberty, at any rate? Why do you need a party for that?

    The gridlock that happens in government as a result of a lack of unity is part of the design of the Constitution. Gridlock is a feature, not a bug. It keeps government from just “doing things”, as if that is for what it was designed:

    The Federalist No. 10
    http://constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

    “The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.”

    If our representatives can’t agree on a course of action, then it’s not supposed to be done. Our representatives REPRESENT differing factions. They’re not really supposed to agree on a whole lot, except that they are to obey the Constitution.

  • guest
  • guest

    That would be awesome.

  • Anonymous

    The Tea party really wasn’t a flash in the pan, they just need to nominate candidates who know how to articulate positions. The GOP establishment isn’t exactly hitting home runs picking candidates either.

  • RandallS

    “Romney is one of the best presidential candidates the Republicans have ever fielded.” I’ve always thought Ann Coulter had a great sense of humor.

  • Ken Caudll

    I love Ann’s sardonic wit. I have doubts about her judgment.

  • http://twitter.com/Nicendeth Nick Bagnall

    Yep, I’m pretty sure we caused mental trauma to Ann Coulter. Wow, she’s essentially transforming into the final stage of neoconservatism – she might even out-do Bill Kristol, mark my words.

  • http://twitter.com/HoplophobicDoc Hoplophobics Anon.

    Sour grapes are sour.

    Sorry Ann, but the point of primaries is NOT to roll over and die. At least not on paper.

    Romney didn’t win because he was boring; he stood for nothing substantially different than Obama. He was Obama ‘light.’

    Next time, bet on a winning horse.

  • guest

    The Tea Party allowed themselves to be co-opted by the neocons:

    The Tea Party Started In 2007 And Ron Paul Is The Godfather
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNiDx7qTjA

    It looks as if the “Liberty Movement” is going to follow suit by allowing themselves to be co-opted by the Marxist-created Occupy Movement.

    Thanks, Tom Woods, for being on guard against the Friedmanites.

  • therealliberal

    Finally someone is calling out Ann Coulter on her BS. She is just another member of the fake right -

  • uk6strings

    I must admit that I was shocked to see Coulter back Romney so intensely. I figured she would back him eventually but to see her come out in support of him so early, so strongly and in such an unapologetic way was some weird, wild stuff. I figured the Romney campaign must have bribed her big time in some way, shape or form because, contrary to what she says, she really wasn’t a big fan of him back in 2008.

    Coulter gets a lot of hate around here for good reason – but you have to admit that she’s a good satirist, just as a comedian can be funny even though you may not agree with them 100%.

  • http://www.consequenceofsound.net/author/jhpainter Harry Painter

    First she decries hipsters for refusing to listen to popular bands, then she says she likes bands that don’t sell any albums because that shows integrity. So ironic it’s not ironic? Is Ann Coulter the anti-hipster hipster?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3YU52EINCBVVCOFOD5A5IHOJWA Bruce C

    I found Coulter’s support strange. However, let’s get serious. “unelectable” used when the guy lost by a few percentage points? This victory was pure tribalism and demographics.
    Even Romney would have sailed to a landslide victory if we had 1980′s demographics.