We all know Ann Coulter. She’s known as the snarky, self assured destroyer of liberals. With years of practice, she’s honed her skills to a razor’s edge. She’s written multiple best selling books, and deals crushing blows to the MSM whenever she appears on a lefty network show. To put it mildly, she is formidable.
Then, something strange happened. Recently, she endorsed Mitt Romney, citing him as the most Conservative candidate in the field. That gave me pause, but I chalked it up to simple differences in opinion that mark this primary season. Emotions are running high, and people are naturally taking sides. So, while it was a curious choice for someone as Conservative as Coulter, I shrugged it off. Then, the situation got weird…way more weird. As Gateway Pundit points out, Coulter trashed RomneyCare back in October…
Now, she is apparently defending it, as well as the individual mandate…
Last week Coulter was attacking the tea party.
Today Coulter officially jumped the shark. Not only is she Mitt Romney’s biggest fan she is now praising state run health care.This will make you want to vomit – Coulter even defends the individual mandate.
As Rick Santorum has pointed out, states can enact all sorts of laws — including laws banning contraception — without violating the Constitution. That document places strict limits on what Congress can do, not what the states can do. Romney, incidentally, has always said his plan would be a bad idea nationally…
No one is claiming that the Constitution gives each person an unalienable right not to buy insurance.
States have been forcing people to do things from the beginning of the republic: drilling for the militia, taking blood tests before marriage, paying for public schools, registering property titles and waiting in line for six hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles in order to drive.
There’s no obvious constitutional difference between a state forcing militia-age males to equip themselves with guns and a state forcing adults in today’s world to equip themselves with health insurance.
The hyperventilating over government-mandated health insurance confuses a legal argument with a policy objection.
To quote R.S. McCain, “Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot???
I have three guesses as the reason for this inexplicable behavior:
1. Coulter is making a joke at our expense.
2. Coulter was never as Conservative as we thought, and has disguised her secret identity as a NeoCon…until now.
3. She has been replaced by an alien pod creature.
Her last paragraph throws me a bit, because government mandated health care is a legal issue, as well as a policy objection. Frankly, the two often go hand in hand. Government ends up doing something that the Constitution does not specify, and it invariably screws up mightily, and makes the original problem worse.
At any rate, I’m alarmed, shocked, and dismayed. And, I’m going with the Pod creature theory.
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
Remember when Christie was the only one for Ann? Noticed Christie stumping for Romney? The answer is somewhere in there. It’s also a demonstration of what “establishment” really means – it’s the network of politicos tied together by a network of favors and promises seen and unseen. Call it the “Strange Bedfellows Syndrome.”
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That is some compelling evidence. So much for her being an actul Conservative.
She’s a VERY strange person. To Paraphrase Nicky Sarkozy: She’s a dangerouse alienee…
Lol, beware of the pod people!
Mark Levin is good friends with Ann Coulter and on his radio show, he tore her entire article (that you quote in this OP) apart. When she talks about what states have been forcing us to do, all her examples portray the relationship between the government and the governed. The individual mandate is all about forcing a relationship between two private parties – an individual and a business.
I no longer have any use for Coulter.
I’m not going to defend Coulter as I’m dismayed by her endorsement of Romney.
That said, state-funded bills for health care for that state’s citizens have soared to the moon. Think about this fact: 80% of those in nursing homes are on Medicaid (after the bankruptcy of the patients). Most of these individuals entered nursing homes with plenty of funding. But with the rising costs of care at the long-term level, costs are surreal and gobble up assets like you can’t believe. Now, the state level mandate for health insurance does nothing to alleviate the costs of long-term care — but might cut down state expenditure for other types of health care, thus freeing up some funding for Medicaid in the nursing homes.
Medicaid is paid for by the taxpayers — you and me.
The uncomfortable fact about insurance is this: for insurance to survive as a viable entity, both low risk and high risk must be in the pool of insureds. We’re rapidly reaching the point that insurance is covering more high-risk individuals than low-risk individuals — particularly as the Baby Boomers continue to age and to get frail.
I noticed this paragraph in Coulter’s linked essay:
Is that true????
Here’s a question that I have been puzzling over: What is the viable alternative to the individual mandate?
I think she does have a point, people have been forced to do stuff that’s not in the constitution, the DMV isn’t in there is it.
As for Romney, he isn’t supporting obamacare is he, he’s going to get rid of it right? Assuming the republicans can keep bladder control while liberals get hysterical about the falling sky.