The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain

[John81]

The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain
by Ann Coulter

11/05/2008

Last night was truly a historic occasion: For only the second time in her adult life, Michelle Obama was proud of her country!

The big loser of this election is Colin Powell, whose last-minute endorsement of Obama put the Illinois senator over the top. Powell was probably at home last night, yelling at his TV, "Are you KIDDING me? That endorsement was sarcastic!"

The winner, of course, is Obama, who must be excited because now he can start hanging out in public with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright again. John McCain is a winner because he can resume buying more houses.

And we're all winners because we will never again have to hear McCain say, "my friends."

After Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, Hillary Clinton immediately announced that, henceforth, she would be known as "Hillary Rodham Clinton." So maybe Obama can now become B. Hussein Obama, his rightful name.

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they're not racists -- they're retards. Question: What exactly would one have to say to alienate Pennsylvanians? That Joe Paterno should retire?

Apparently Florida voters didn't mind Obama's palling around with Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, either. There must be a whole bunch of retired Pennsylvania Jews down there.

Have you ever noticed that whenever Democrats lose presidential elections, they always blame it on the personal qualities of their candidate? Kerry was a dork, Gore was a stiff, Dukakis was a bloodless android, Mondale was a sad sack.

This blame-the-messenger thesis allows Democrats to conclude that their message was fine -- nothing should be changed! The American people are clamoring for higher taxes, big government, a defeatist foreign policy, gay marriage, the whole magilla. It was just this particular candidate's personality.

Republicans lost this presidential election, and I don't blame the messenger; I blame the message. How could Republicans go after B. Hussein Obama (as he is now known) on planning to bankrupt the coal companies when McCain supports the exact same cap and trade policies and earnestly believes in global warming?

How could we go after Obama for his illegal alien aunt and for supporting driver's licenses for illegal aliens when McCain fanatically pushed amnesty along with his good friend Teddy Kennedy?

How could we go after Obama for Jeremiah Wright when McCain denounced any Republicans who did so?

How could we go after Obama for planning to hike taxes on the "rich," when McCain was the only Republican to vote against both of Bush's tax cuts on the grounds that they were tax cuts for the rich?

And why should Republican activists slave away working for McCain when he has personally, viciously attacked: John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Veterans, National Right to Life director Doug Johnson, evangelical pastors Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, various conservative talk radio hosts, the Tennessee Republican Party and on and on and on?

As liberal Democrat E.J. Dionne Jr. exuded about McCain in The Washington Post during the Republican primaries, "John McCain is feared by Democrats and liked by independents." Dionne proclaimed that McCain "may be the one Republican who can rescue his party from the undertow of the Bush years."

Similarly, after unelectable, ultraconservative Reagan won two landslide victories, James Reston of The New York Times gave the same advice to Vice President George H.W. Bush: Stop being conservative! Bush was "a good man," Reston said in 1988, "and might run a strong campaign if liberated from Mr. Reagan's coattails."

Roll that phrase around a bit -- "liberated from Mr. Reagan's coattails." This is why it takes so long to read the Times -- you have to keep reading the same paragraph over again to see if you missed a word.

Bush, of course, rode Reagan's ultraconservative coattails to victory, then snipped those coattails by raising taxes and was soundly defeated four years later.

I keep trying to get Democrats to take my advice (stop being so crazy), but they never listen to me. Why do Republicans take the advice of their enemies?

How many times do we have to run this experiment before Republican primary voters learn that "moderate," "independent," "maverick" Republicans never win, and right-wing Republicans never lose?

Indeed, the only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as "The One" these days.

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved somehow, too. Good Lord, I'm tired.

After showing nearly superhuman restraint throughout this campaign, which was lost the night McCain won the California primary, I am now liberated to announce that all I care about is hunting down and punishing every Republican who voted for McCain in the primaries. I have a list and am prepared to produce the names of every person who told me he was voting for McCain to the proper authorities.

We'll start with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Then we shall march through the states of New Hampshire and South Carolina -- states that must never, ever be allowed to hold early Republican primaries again.

For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29385

[trc123]

Ann Coulter is a very angry, bitter and shrill idiotic partisan hack!

[Guest Guest]

Ann Coulter can really put it out there, can't she? :Green

The big loser of this election is Colin Powell' date=' whose last-minute endorsement of Obama put the Illinois senator over the top. Powell was probably at home last night, yelling at his TV, "Are you KIDDING me? That endorsement was sarcastic!"[/quote']

That was an abomination! Hey...Obama and abomination kinda go together? LOL.

[Guest Guest]

Ann Coulter is a very angry' date=' bitter and shrill idiotic partisan hack![/quote']


Oh...but I love that "very angry, bitter and shrill idiotic partisan hack!" She makes me laugh!!! :lol:

[John81]

One thing Ann is not, and that's "idiotic". Ann is a very intelligent woman.

Come to think of it, she's also not angry or bitter, but she does love to use biting sarcasm to make her points and she isn't afraid to call it as she sees it regardless of what is popular.

[trc123]

One thing Ann is not, and that's "idiotic". Ann is a very intelligent woman.

Come to think of it, she's also not angry or bitter, but she does love to use biting sarcasm to make her points and she isn't afraid to call it as she sees it regardless of what is popular.

I did not say she was not intelligent, I said she was "idiotic" not an idiot.

I stand by my first assessment.

[John81]

How can one be idiotic if they are not an idiot?

[Guest Guest]

If I had Ann Coulter's job...with some very fine tuning I might sound a bit like her. I am just as fed up with this whole mess as her...and I use humor to get things out of my system. Yeah..."It is better to laugh than to cry." When you laugh---statistically you live longer. Although, sometimes....LOL.

The sun will come up tomorrow. :fall:

[deafnva77]

Have you ever noticed that whenever Democrats lose presidential elections, they always blame it on the personal qualities of their candidate? Kerry was a dork, Gore was a stiff, Dukakis was a bloodless android, Mondale was a sad sack.

I KNEW there were some sneaky democrats inside McCain's campaigns (palin things) :Bleh

[IM4given]

Great article! Thanks for posting it John! :thumb :coffee

[trc123]

How can one be idiotic if they are not an idiot?

It's kind a like when you tell your child they are not stupid, but sure do some stupid things!

[John81]

It's kind a like when you tell your child they are not stupid, but sure do some stupid things!

Then you should have said she said some idoitic things rather than that she is idiotic if that's what you meant.

What did she say you consider to be idiotic?

[Guest Guest]

It's kind a like when you tell your child they are not stupid, but sure do some stupid things!

I know what you are saying...trc. "Acting" might be the word?

Never fear Christ is near. :thumb

[Guest Guest]

Ann Coulter is a very angry' date=' bitter and shrill idiotic partisan hack![/quote']

I tend to agree. That is true also true of hanity, rush, etc. They all make their living off pushing an us vs. them ideology to the point of becoming ridiculous. Well, it IS an us vs. them world in many areas, but a irrationally high level of partisanship pushes them into the realm of hypocrisy and down right foolish accusations quite often. For example, right now they are ripping McCain up, and I think that is their true feelings, yet, before the election they would avoid saying anything bad about him and would sing his praises in many areas. What changed? It wasn't McCain... Partisan hacks for sure... Very little credibility...

[John81]

Not Ann. Ann denounced McCain during the primaries and stated she would not support him even if he became the Repub nominee. True to her word, Ann never backed McCain and she told the truth about McCain before, during and after the election.