Ann gives out great political advice basically for free. Maybe if the Republicans had to pay her for it, they would get serious and follow through on what she recommends. If I were DeSantis she would be my chief political strategist. And, I would win if I followed her advice. For example, put religion and morality aside on the abortion issue and try not to alienate the majority of voters.
Ann, your columns are always such a delight...a stream of unassailable truth and logic punctuated by under-used and under-appreciated words like 'persnickety.'. ..with some good fun and a wry grin or two in between.
The aliens in the mothership hiding behind the dark side of the moon monitoring our media will be scratching one of their three heads with a tentacle and wondering how humans can be so dumb as to repeat mistakes endlessly like we do. They don't realize that in order to understand us they need to stop abducting normal people from rural areas and begin to abduct Leftist pinheads from the cities. Only then will they understand the cancer that's metastasizing among us My great hope is that if they begin doing this they won't feel sorry for us and decide to put us all out of our misery as a humanitarian gesture.
Is it too early to begin printing up a batch of "DeSantis / Coulter 2024" bumper stickers and yard signs? Now that I've moved to an area where I can actually put up a non-Leftist bumper sticker or yard sign without my car or house being vandalized I'm itching to exercise my newfound freedoms.
One would think that after McCain (obnoxious political grifter), Romney (boring political grifter) and Trump (at least he made the correct promises) the Republican party would catch onto the obvious...Republicans/Conservatives win at the polls when they have a message that the majority actually cares about and follow-through with it…unlike winning with Trumpism only to lose with Trump.
It really isn't all that hard...just grow a pair and sanely address illegal immigration; fighting endless wars with other people's children and some sanity in our society and laws...plus a dash of the government working for the people...not just the blue people or even just the red people...it's called rebuilding credibility and trust.
But the GOP doesn't want to win, wants to be permanent minority. They have same agenda as democrats, ie, open borders and endless wars. Until 1994 the House was controlled by democrats for 40 straight years--no one complained. All the money in the world is behind enslaving US taxpayers from birth to open borders and endless wars, entire political class is fine with that. Republican voters still have no party behind them. There isn't a penny to be made by giving Republican voters what they want.
Exactly why I have learned to approach every candidate with caution and never give them absolute trust...they are only as useful as their performance.
Since Trump voluntarily forfeited his usefulness, other than Christian charity, I don’t feel sorry for him but, rather, totally enraged at the way the Democrats have pooped on the Constitution and legal system while the dithering Republicans use one hand to wipe their butts and the other hand to solicit donations based on false promises.
Proof if needed. With this statement aired 6/20/23, Trump proves he hasn't the slightest intention of "getting rid of the swamp," couldn't care less about the swamp, isn't curious to find out who's in it or how it operates ("it's one of those things"), is just a messenger boy, and has no interest whatsoever in desperate human beings who put him office in 2016: Trump: “You’re not actually allowed to fire him [Fauci]...it’s one of those things."
Well Ann Is it just me or have the Other Candidates been a wee bit silent on how they stand on:
The J6 people rotting in jail and getting ridiculously trumped up sentences on trumped up charges
The idiot judges and corrupt actors in the FBI, CIA, and ATF
THE CORRUPT DEPT OF JUSTICE
The “not a jury of your peers” DC jurisdiction, which has prosecutors judges and jury members completely 100% totally biased against every conservative and who the democrats conveniently run their miserably guilty criminals through to get a not guilty verdict from a brain dead Republican hating jury.
Eliminate birthright citizenship
Build the wall no matter what investigational distractions the Clinton/Soros cook up against whatever sitting President
Declaring immigration “not a fundamental human right”
Vowing to disbar all the lawyers including Garland that were involved in the too many to keep track of malicious prosecutions
Codify women’s rights to be free of men in their bathrooms, prisons, nude spas, and sports teams
Smack silly the senators allowing the chambers of commerce dictate how our borders are regulated (hint - republicans allow it because cheap labor - democrats allow it because cheap and forever democrat party votes)
The obvious rule bending, miscounting, “machine malfunctions”, ballots showing up in the middle of the night election fraud
I could go on and on, but seems only Vivek and Trump have provided straight answers on a lot of the questions above issues.
Listening to Trump answers questions posed by Bret Baier the last two nights was revealing. It was all typical used car salesman bombast, except for the times he was completely befuddled.
Like over Alice Johnson. That was priceless.
He has no clue about what HE’S talking about, just that “it’s the greatest and people love me.”
Trump lied or exhibited dementia in that interview aired 6/20/23, “On the vaccines, I let the governors make their decisions. What I didn’t do is the mandates."...If he wants to lie, he should at least lie about something that can't be easily checked. The first EUA approved US vaccine wasn't given in US until Dec. 14, 2020, a month after Trump had been voted out of office. At that time there were very few doses available in the US and those few had been designated for health care workers and the elderly. Even among those populations, in early days vaccine was almost impossible to get. (My mother was in a NJ nursing home and they couldn't get any for many weeks). It would be well into 2021 before most Americans would have access to "vaccine." Governors and states had no vaccine supplies when Trump was in office, so he couldn't possibly have "let the governors make their decisions" about something that didn't exist at that time.
Republicans actually won seven million more votes than Democrats in the midterms yet still only picked up 9 paltry seats. And thanks to the recent activist SCOTUS ruling that stood the 15th amendment on its head they will lose one and possibly three more seats since Alabama now needs to redistrict to ensure blacks have two of Alabama's seven congressional seats. I've read where Democrats want to sue other Southern states for the same result.
Personally I just don't think Trump can win the general. He would be a better president than any Democrat but undecided voters just don't want another clown show for four years. Trump could never decide whether he wanted to be president or just an entertainer sitting in the White House.
But people who think Ron DeSantis will cakewalk his way into the Republican nomination and general election victory are also deluding themselves. The media will make DeSantis the new Trump and "literally Hitler" if Trump gets sidelined by any of the criminal cases pending against him.
They are actually scared of Ron while giddy at the thought of a Trump nomination! I think Desantis has all the right qualities for such a time as this. 1) He ain't scared of the media. 2) He is an actual believer. 3) No baggage! 4) Proven leadership and initiative against wokeism. 5) Purty hair.
what are any of the other GOP candidates going to do about the FBI and Justice Department, for starters? Or is it just fine the way it is and is justice being meted out in an equal fashion?
Why was Biden sitting on the steps outside the Ovaltine Office with Lisa Monaco? Was she briefing him on her role in the Enron prosecution, the destruction of Arthur Anderson, her duties as chief of staff to Robert Mueller, what she and Rummler and Rice did in the Obama Administration? Or was it a discussion about the fair handed sentence that was coming down the pike for Hunter and explaining that the reason they charged Trump with the Espionage Act was so that they could use the national security wing of the DoJ to say that Trump's documents were a threat to national security but Biden's boxes of documents weren't a threat to national security and so for the same 'crime' as Trump committed, Joe won't face the same charges or outcome?
Unless Trump (or any of the other GOP candidates) actually, in fact, abolish the FBI and CIA, fire everyone in the Dept of Justice and deputize State police to investigate Federal crimes (or the GOP candidates could just say they are not going to investigate or prosecute federal crimes), the the shit show of the Hunter Biden deal yesterday is just going to continue and get worse.
The Federal government is at this point laughing at conservatives in particular and the nation in general. De Santis is bought and paid for, as amply demonstrated by his announcement that he is against tariffs on China, which is the position of his donors.
Maybe all the people who support the GOP but don't want to vote for Trump are in fact nothing more than fuckin idiots who think (like Trump thought of Schumer) that the answer to the nation's problems are to have more harmony with ideologues devoted to your destruction.
Maybe he Dems don't really want gay grooming of children, they don't really want to ban gas stoves, they don't really want open borders, they don't really want to put J6 people in jail, they don't really want unlimited / mandated abortion. they don't really want to continue to fund the piggy bank, I mean the war in Ukraine. Maybe they are taking those extreme positions in order to goad Trump into opposing those positions so that the Dems can jump up and down and point fingers at how extreme Trump is for opposing centrist positions.
Go ahead and vote for whichever GOP candidate best floats your boat. It isn't going to make the slightest difference because none of the candidates will pick up the thousand dollar bill off the ground this time around, or if any of them do, the centrist Democrat Party in swing States will just jig around with the rules or the ballots and ensure Xiden gets a second term.
This will be a good outcome because at that point the thousands of Tim McVeighs out there who are being patient, waiting for their chance to make a difference with their vote, will begin the cleansing that no GOP candidate promised to do.
Their poster will be the one of Rambo in First Blood with the tag line, 'just wait till the people who want to be left alone get involved.'
Instead of voting for a President in 2024.....let's all vote for a Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Budget. Let's throw in a clause to sunset all programs.....to be "sunrised" -- if and only if evidence shows the program meets its objectives [i.e. -- it works].
Then we let AI Powered robots run things............by simply following the script we write for them.
Have you thought about voting for RFK in California? If republicans - whose vote for President is disenfranchised - all voted for RFK wouldn’t that deprive Biden of 54 electoral votes?
Ann gives out great political advice basically for free. Maybe if the Republicans had to pay her for it, they would get serious and follow through on what she recommends. If I were DeSantis she would be my chief political strategist. And, I would win if I followed her advice. For example, put religion and morality aside on the abortion issue and try not to alienate the majority of voters.
if only you ran the RNC, rufus!
Ann, your columns are always such a delight...a stream of unassailable truth and logic punctuated by under-used and under-appreciated words like 'persnickety.'. ..with some good fun and a wry grin or two in between.
The aliens in the mothership hiding behind the dark side of the moon monitoring our media will be scratching one of their three heads with a tentacle and wondering how humans can be so dumb as to repeat mistakes endlessly like we do. They don't realize that in order to understand us they need to stop abducting normal people from rural areas and begin to abduct Leftist pinheads from the cities. Only then will they understand the cancer that's metastasizing among us My great hope is that if they begin doing this they won't feel sorry for us and decide to put us all out of our misery as a humanitarian gesture.
Is it too early to begin printing up a batch of "DeSantis / Coulter 2024" bumper stickers and yard signs? Now that I've moved to an area where I can actually put up a non-Leftist bumper sticker or yard sign without my car or house being vandalized I'm itching to exercise my newfound freedoms.
DeSantis is only 44. Coulter is 60. It should be Coulter 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmkoPaFXcB0&pp=ygUhYW5uIGNvdWx0ZXIgMjAxNSB0cnVtcCBtdXNsaW0gYmFu Her response to kicking all muslims out of the USA. It is possible be a wise islamophobe in a campaign. It is tough, and requires good knowledge of world history, but it can be done.
One would think that after McCain (obnoxious political grifter), Romney (boring political grifter) and Trump (at least he made the correct promises) the Republican party would catch onto the obvious...Republicans/Conservatives win at the polls when they have a message that the majority actually cares about and follow-through with it…unlike winning with Trumpism only to lose with Trump.
It really isn't all that hard...just grow a pair and sanely address illegal immigration; fighting endless wars with other people's children and some sanity in our society and laws...plus a dash of the government working for the people...not just the blue people or even just the red people...it's called rebuilding credibility and trust.
But the GOP doesn't want to win, wants to be permanent minority. They have same agenda as democrats, ie, open borders and endless wars. Until 1994 the House was controlled by democrats for 40 straight years--no one complained. All the money in the world is behind enslaving US taxpayers from birth to open borders and endless wars, entire political class is fine with that. Republican voters still have no party behind them. There isn't a penny to be made by giving Republican voters what they want.
Bravo!
Exactly why I have learned to approach every candidate with caution and never give them absolute trust...they are only as useful as their performance.
Since Trump voluntarily forfeited his usefulness, other than Christian charity, I don’t feel sorry for him but, rather, totally enraged at the way the Democrats have pooped on the Constitution and legal system while the dithering Republicans use one hand to wipe their butts and the other hand to solicit donations based on false promises.
Re: Fauci, in Bret-Trump interview aired 6/20/23, Bret said, "“Sure. But you didn’t fire him [Fauci], you listened to him, you kept him on.”
Trump responded, “You’re not actually allowed to fire him...it’s one of those things.""
Fine, where's the list of "those things" that US presidents aren't allowed to do? Inquiring voters want to know.
Proof if needed. With this statement aired 6/20/23, Trump proves he hasn't the slightest intention of "getting rid of the swamp," couldn't care less about the swamp, isn't curious to find out who's in it or how it operates ("it's one of those things"), is just a messenger boy, and has no interest whatsoever in desperate human beings who put him office in 2016: Trump: “You’re not actually allowed to fire him [Fauci]...it’s one of those things."
Great column by Ann.
The progressives will try to make Trump 1000 times more toxic than David Duke to conservatives.
They’ve tried to make January 6th 1000 times more damaging than Charlottesville to conservatives, didn’t they?
Well Ann Is it just me or have the Other Candidates been a wee bit silent on how they stand on:
The J6 people rotting in jail and getting ridiculously trumped up sentences on trumped up charges
The idiot judges and corrupt actors in the FBI, CIA, and ATF
THE CORRUPT DEPT OF JUSTICE
The “not a jury of your peers” DC jurisdiction, which has prosecutors judges and jury members completely 100% totally biased against every conservative and who the democrats conveniently run their miserably guilty criminals through to get a not guilty verdict from a brain dead Republican hating jury.
Eliminate birthright citizenship
Build the wall no matter what investigational distractions the Clinton/Soros cook up against whatever sitting President
Declaring immigration “not a fundamental human right”
Vowing to disbar all the lawyers including Garland that were involved in the too many to keep track of malicious prosecutions
Codify women’s rights to be free of men in their bathrooms, prisons, nude spas, and sports teams
Smack silly the senators allowing the chambers of commerce dictate how our borders are regulated (hint - republicans allow it because cheap labor - democrats allow it because cheap and forever democrat party votes)
The obvious rule bending, miscounting, “machine malfunctions”, ballots showing up in the middle of the night election fraud
I could go on and on, but seems only Vivek and Trump have provided straight answers on a lot of the questions above issues.
Trump on the classified documents: They’re really coming after Walt Nauta, I’m just in their way.
Listening to Trump answers questions posed by Bret Baier the last two nights was revealing. It was all typical used car salesman bombast, except for the times he was completely befuddled.
Like over Alice Johnson. That was priceless.
He has no clue about what HE’S talking about, just that “it’s the greatest and people love me.”
Trump lied or exhibited dementia in that interview aired 6/20/23, “On the vaccines, I let the governors make their decisions. What I didn’t do is the mandates."...If he wants to lie, he should at least lie about something that can't be easily checked. The first EUA approved US vaccine wasn't given in US until Dec. 14, 2020, a month after Trump had been voted out of office. At that time there were very few doses available in the US and those few had been designated for health care workers and the elderly. Even among those populations, in early days vaccine was almost impossible to get. (My mother was in a NJ nursing home and they couldn't get any for many weeks). It would be well into 2021 before most Americans would have access to "vaccine." Governors and states had no vaccine supplies when Trump was in office, so he couldn't possibly have "let the governors make their decisions" about something that didn't exist at that time.
Ann, what is the title of your next book?
What are the Trump diehards going to do when he breaks every promise he’s ever made to them just to keep himself out of serving time in jail?
The number one rule when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging!
Republicans actually won seven million more votes than Democrats in the midterms yet still only picked up 9 paltry seats. And thanks to the recent activist SCOTUS ruling that stood the 15th amendment on its head they will lose one and possibly three more seats since Alabama now needs to redistrict to ensure blacks have two of Alabama's seven congressional seats. I've read where Democrats want to sue other Southern states for the same result.
Personally I just don't think Trump can win the general. He would be a better president than any Democrat but undecided voters just don't want another clown show for four years. Trump could never decide whether he wanted to be president or just an entertainer sitting in the White House.
But people who think Ron DeSantis will cakewalk his way into the Republican nomination and general election victory are also deluding themselves. The media will make DeSantis the new Trump and "literally Hitler" if Trump gets sidelined by any of the criminal cases pending against him.
They are actually scared of Ron while giddy at the thought of a Trump nomination! I think Desantis has all the right qualities for such a time as this. 1) He ain't scared of the media. 2) He is an actual believer. 3) No baggage! 4) Proven leadership and initiative against wokeism. 5) Purty hair.
what are any of the other GOP candidates going to do about the FBI and Justice Department, for starters? Or is it just fine the way it is and is justice being meted out in an equal fashion?
Why was Biden sitting on the steps outside the Ovaltine Office with Lisa Monaco? Was she briefing him on her role in the Enron prosecution, the destruction of Arthur Anderson, her duties as chief of staff to Robert Mueller, what she and Rummler and Rice did in the Obama Administration? Or was it a discussion about the fair handed sentence that was coming down the pike for Hunter and explaining that the reason they charged Trump with the Espionage Act was so that they could use the national security wing of the DoJ to say that Trump's documents were a threat to national security but Biden's boxes of documents weren't a threat to national security and so for the same 'crime' as Trump committed, Joe won't face the same charges or outcome?
Unless Trump (or any of the other GOP candidates) actually, in fact, abolish the FBI and CIA, fire everyone in the Dept of Justice and deputize State police to investigate Federal crimes (or the GOP candidates could just say they are not going to investigate or prosecute federal crimes), the the shit show of the Hunter Biden deal yesterday is just going to continue and get worse.
The Federal government is at this point laughing at conservatives in particular and the nation in general. De Santis is bought and paid for, as amply demonstrated by his announcement that he is against tariffs on China, which is the position of his donors.
Maybe all the people who support the GOP but don't want to vote for Trump are in fact nothing more than fuckin idiots who think (like Trump thought of Schumer) that the answer to the nation's problems are to have more harmony with ideologues devoted to your destruction.
Maybe he Dems don't really want gay grooming of children, they don't really want to ban gas stoves, they don't really want open borders, they don't really want to put J6 people in jail, they don't really want unlimited / mandated abortion. they don't really want to continue to fund the piggy bank, I mean the war in Ukraine. Maybe they are taking those extreme positions in order to goad Trump into opposing those positions so that the Dems can jump up and down and point fingers at how extreme Trump is for opposing centrist positions.
Go ahead and vote for whichever GOP candidate best floats your boat. It isn't going to make the slightest difference because none of the candidates will pick up the thousand dollar bill off the ground this time around, or if any of them do, the centrist Democrat Party in swing States will just jig around with the rules or the ballots and ensure Xiden gets a second term.
This will be a good outcome because at that point the thousands of Tim McVeighs out there who are being patient, waiting for their chance to make a difference with their vote, will begin the cleansing that no GOP candidate promised to do.
Their poster will be the one of Rambo in First Blood with the tag line, 'just wait till the people who want to be left alone get involved.'
Lighten up, Francis.
I hope a mcveigh finds you first
Lighten up, Canada.
Come on up. You'll never be seen again.
Instead of voting for a President in 2024.....let's all vote for a Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Budget. Let's throw in a clause to sunset all programs.....to be "sunrised" -- if and only if evidence shows the program meets its objectives [i.e. -- it works].
Then we let AI Powered robots run things............by simply following the script we write for them.
dont forget the pie in the sky.
"Trump / Duke in '24, if we're gonna lose, let's lose Yuuge!"
or bigly!
like his hair
Just give me a solid ticket Republicans for 11/5/24. I’m in California as an Independent. It’s all I can do.
Have you thought about voting for RFK in California? If republicans - whose vote for President is disenfranchised - all voted for RFK wouldn’t that deprive Biden of 54 electoral votes?
no because R's are realistically 30% of Cali at most.