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Ann Coulter: Comparing Apples to Oranges in order to support Romney
As a conservative myself I sometimes get a chuckle out of the tortured logic occasionally used by some Republicans and conservatives to justify their support for a particular issue or candidate, and I feel tortured logic is the case with a recent Ann Coulter opinion piece in Human Events wherein she compares apples to oranges.
Ms. Coulter, of course, has chosen to support Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, which means she has to explain away or overcome any conservative objections to Romneycare in Massachusetts. Romney himself claims Romneycare is perfectly square with the Constitution and conservative values due to the 10th Amendment and Ann Coulter goes even farther.
Here is the link to Ms. Coulter’s piece in Human Events and some excerpts with our commentary:
Three cheers for RomneyCare
by Ann Coulter
02/01/2012If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles — as it was at the time.
Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats’ piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.
In November 2004, for example, libertarian Ronald Bailey praised mandated private health insurance in Reason magazine, saying that it “could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion.”A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing.
Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care.
Huh? I thought the free market was a place wherein businesses developed the best product at the best price and competed for business by “convincing” potential customers to purchase their product. I didn’t realize that we free-market conservatives believed in government forcing people to buy products even if we still had a choice of products once the decision to buy “something” had been foisted upon we unsuspecting “free people” by an omnipotent government entity.
Don’t jump the gun here folks – wait for it … I’ll get there (car insurance) …
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Gingrich in Florida: “My plans for our space program … will make NASA officials nervous”
The Steve Bussey Radio Experience and Stevebussey.com covered the Newt Gingrich town hall event today in Brevard County, Florida reporting for AM 1300 WMEL (1300wmel.com).
The Republican primary frontrunner currently locked in what some have characterized as a “bloody fist fight” with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the presidential nomination said today in Cocoa, FL that his plans for the American space program are “very bold and very different and will make NASA officials very nervous.”
Gingrich then harkened back, as only a History professor can, to Abraham Lincoln stating the need for a transcontinental railroad even before the technology to cross the Rocky Mountains existed and having never seen a train himself, but had only read about them. Gingrich also pointed out that President Kennedy challenged America to send a man to the Moon and return him back to earth safely again before the end of the decade when manned space flight was still in its infancy and the technology did not yet exist.
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Supreme Court got another one wrong
Full disclosure: I’m a former cop and retired special agent so I do have some bias in this case and I understand any disagreements.
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that installing a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s car constitutes a search and therefore requires a search warrant, and I disagree and believe the Court used twisted and tortured logic to arrive at their conclusion.
As a rule I like it when courts reign in government in general and law enforcement in particular but I don’t like it when the courts use tortured logic, redefine words, make things up or rephrase our Constitution.
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GOP Debate: The Gingrich Sandbag & Santorum Blew It
For months now former Speaker Newt Gingrich has fielded allegations that he was paid $1.6 million by Freddie Mac for lobbying efforts, trying to tie him to the housing collapse and subsequent 2008 “Great Recession.” In last night’s debate, however, his answer was somewhat different than usual.
When faced with the $1.6 million – Freddie Mac – allegation from Mitt Romney last night Newt Gingrich said, paraphrasing, that he was not paid that money. He had a company with three offices that was paid $1.6 million and his income from that was only about $35,000 per year, the implication being that some of the money went to office/company overhead and the rest went to staff. He then looked at Mitt Romney and asked the gross income of Bain Capital and if that was considered his, Mitt Romney’s, income. The answer was clear.
If all of Gingrich’s answer last night was true, it was the perfect political sandbag over the past 6 months.
Rick Santorum was asked if increased drilling off Florida’s coast was worth the potential loss of tourism dollars in the event of a “BP-style oil spill” and he went off on some energy filibuster without actually answering the question.
The correct answer was, “there are over 4,000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, how many spills have you ever heard about? What if an asteroid hits earth tomorrow?”
