Ann Coulter-WHAT'S THEIR PROBLEM WITH ROMNEY?

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You've gotta hand it to Ann Coulter.

"Romney pushed the conservative alternative to national health care that, had it been adopted in the 49 other states, would have killed Obamacare in the crib by solving the health insurance problem at the state level."

Repealing Obamacare is the most important national priority!!!! If only we'd implemented it in all 50 states first, we wouldn't be in the horrible position of having it at the national level!!!!

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I like Mitt Romney and a couple weeks ago decided to endorse him from our selection of candidates. My ideology is that he is conservative enough just like McCain. I think Ann Coulter just wants to win and will support whoever that may happen to be. I really don't know why some of the members in my party is so hesitant to get behind him. Politicians can change their views over the course of their life and sometimes great minds change. What voters gotta watch out for is when a politician suddenly makes several changes or is back and forth for their entire career. As for Mitt, I had my speculations in 2008.  As governor of Massachusetts he was basically in the wrong party and then all of a sudden it seemed like he was the next Ronald Reagan. Looking back though I can see development rather than flip-flopping.

Who the hell changes their mind on abortion at age 60?

Lets not kid ourselves, Mitt is competent.....but he is a shameless flip-flopper.

Lot's of people.

I highly doubt it.

It is one thing to change your mind about abortion in your 20's and early 30's. Generally that is when people settle down and become a bit more conservative. But at age 60, please! Mitt became pro-life because it was politically impossible for him to run as president as pro-choice.

And/or, he became pro-choice because it was politically impossible to run for governor of Massachusetts as pro-life.
The thing about Romney's changes of heart is that both sides of the issue feel betrayed by him.

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I like Mitt Romney and a couple weeks ago decided to endorse him from our selection of candidates. My ideology is that he is conservative enough just like McCain. I think Ann Coulter just wants to win and will support whoever that may happen to be. I really don't know why some of the members in my party is so hesitant to get behind him. Politicians can change their views over the course of their life and sometimes great minds change. What voters gotta watch out for is when a politician suddenly makes several changes or is back and forth for their entire career. As for Mitt, I had my speculations in 2008.  As governor of Massachusetts he was basically in the wrong party and then all of a sudden it seemed like he was the next Ronald Reagan. Looking back though I can see development rather than flip-flopping.

Who the hell changes their mind on abortion at age 60?

Lets not kid ourselves, Mitt is competent.....but he is a shameless flip-flopper.

Lot's of people.

I highly doubt it.

It is one thing to change your mind about abortion in your 20's and early 30's. Generally that is when people settle down and become a bit more conservative. But at age 60, please! Mitt became pro-life because it was politically impossible for him to run as president as pro-choice.

And/or, he became pro-choice because it was politically impossible to run for governor of Massachusetts as pro-life.
The thing about Romney's changes of heart is that both sides of the issue feel betrayed by him.

Too often people only slam the other party for changing their minds. We all remember John Kerry getting a pass from the media and democrats but the republicans hammered him about it.  Now we have Romney from the same state and the democrats are trying to cruxify him while republicans will strongly support him if he's the nominee.  Obama was all about public financing and then suddenly changed his mind when he became the nominee.  Was it all talk or did he actually change his mind legitimately? Issues like these run in both parties.

I wouldn't say that I remember Kerry getting a pass from the media, but then one's memories of these things tends to be rather partisan.
I'm not actually condemning Romney for changing his mind here, but rather for the position that he's taken. For me, the fact that he's now pro-life is itself a reason not to vote for him; all I was pointing out is that his previous pro-choice positions do nothing to reassure me, or voters like me, even as there are clearly at least some conservatives who don't trust Romney's more recent positions.

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I like Mitt Romney and a couple weeks ago decided to endorse him from our selection of candidates. My ideology is that he is conservative enough just like McCain. I think Ann Coulter just wants to win and will support whoever that may happen to be. I really don't know why some of the members in my party is so hesitant to get behind him. Politicians can change their views over the course of their life and sometimes great minds change. What voters gotta watch out for is when a politician suddenly makes several changes or is back and forth for their entire career. As for Mitt, I had my speculations in 2008.  As governor of Massachusetts he was basically in the wrong party and then all of a sudden it seemed like he was the next Ronald Reagan. Looking back though I can see development rather than flip-flopping.

Who the hell changes their mind on abortion at age 60?

Lets not kid ourselves, Mitt is competent.....but he is a shameless flip-flopper.

Lot's of people.

I highly doubt it.

It is one thing to change your mind about abortion in your 20's and early 30's. Generally that is when people settle down and become a bit more conservative. But at age 60, please! Mitt became pro-life because it was politically impossible for him to run as president as pro-choice.

In all honesty, it wouldn't be the first time a politician changed their mind on a social issues. I used support the death penalty and now I'm against it for example but in politics that would look bad. Without knowing for sure why Romney changed his mind, I'm not going to accuse him. Hopefully, he stands by what he feels is right. Also, the country as a whole has moved towards opposing abortion for the last 10-20 years and he may be part of that wave.

True, Romney's isn't the first guy to flip-flop and he won't be the last.

The problem I have with his flip on abortion is because in 1994 he claimed to be pro-choice due to a death of a family member.

It also makes his position harder to defend in a debate. I'll always remember that in the 2004 debates, Kerry was asked how he reconciled his Catholic faith with his pro-choice position. He hemmed and hawed, and said it was a complicated issue. Bush stood up and said it wasn't a complicated issue, that abortion was just wrong.
I don't agree with Bush on the point, and I thought in general he looked like a deer caught in the headlights against Kerry in the debates, but even I had to agree he had a more effective answer on that one.
If it's Romney vs. Obama on abortion, I think Obama actually has the more effective answer.

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The Republican Party is no longer the party of wealthy businessmen and statuesque blondes.  Sorry, Ann.  Sorry, Mitt.  Sorry, me.

This is very true. He almost comes off as a 1950's male manican from a department store. More and more the GOP is becoming what the Democrats were a few generations ago; the party of the common man. Democrats today are so out of touch with how socially conservative Americans and people who believe in earning their way through life that they don't even understand how they come across. They give the impression that they know what's best for everyone but when it comes to them, it's ok to make their own decisions. Members of congress should have had to go on assigned health care plans before passing the health care bill for example. Also, the arrogant claim in their party that people can't be successful without college. Excuse me, but I know several people who only went through high school and do very well compared to those of us who went to college and only collected debt in a society where 18 college graduates are now applying for one full time salaried position. In fact I was on a job in 2008 where the subcontractor dropped out of high school during his second year of going to 9th grade and now makes $126,000 a year.  This should sound good to all those recent college graduates competing for jobs while working part time jobs.

Nobody in the Democratic Party has suggested that "people can't be successful without college." Obama did encourage everyone in the country to aim for at least one year of education or training after high school (college, community college, vocational training, etc). He didn't say he wanted to require it, or that there was no way to be successful without it.