(Washington Examiner) - Best-selling
conservative author Ann Coulter, who has used her nine books to launch vicious
attacks on Democrats, is turning her guns on Republicans in a new book out
Monday, calling Florida Sen. Marco Rubio a hypocrite, urging donors freeze
contributions to the GOP, and demanding that only governors or senators run for
the party’s presidential nomination.
Her point in “Never Trust a Liberal
Over 3 — Especially a Republican”
is to shake the party out of its doldrums in time for the 2014 and 2016 elections.
“Elections matter. We’re trying to make the
country a better place. But if our candidates don’t win, we can’t do that,” she
writes. “This isn’t a game. We aren’t picking basketball brackets. Bad things
happen when Republicans lose elections and Democrats have veto-proof
majorities,” she adds in the book provided in advance to Secrets.
While she is most noted for
skewering liberals in her weekly columns and nine previous New York Times best
sellers, “Never Trust” puts her on a path for a head-on collision with the
establishment Republican Party and even a favored 2016 presidential candidate
as she urges the GOP to purge itself of failed tactics, lazy consultants, and
gripless potential candidates.
Take Rubio. He is one of the party’s
leading 2016 candidates, but Coulter dresses him down for promising effective
immigration reform while campaigning for the Senate but spitting out a more
liberal alternative once elected.
She quotes him slamming amnesty for
illegal immigrants as a Senate candidate in 2010. “And then he got to
Washington and his big legislative initiative was a path to citizenship for
illegal aliens! Yes, Rubio’s plan to solve the problem of illegal immigration
from Mexico is to bring them all here,” she scolds.
The fashionable pundit pummels the
party for wooing untested politicians for president. “Why are any congressmen
or businessmen showing up in our presidential primaries? They are never going
to get the nomination,” she says.
The solution is a governor, just
like four of the last six presidents. “I don’t care if it makes you feel good,
conservatives: Do not ever, ever considering running a presidential candidate
who has not been a senator or preferably a governor. No, not even our beloved
Ben Carson. What are we concentrating on? That’s right: winning.”
Ditto for House and Senate seats.
“Stop being stupid,” she urges the party, singling out failed candidates like
former Rep. Todd Akin, who lost a recent Missouri Senate bid when he talked
about “legitimate rape.”
And to grab that gold ring, she
demands that musty political consultants be swept out of the GOP. She blames
them for losing four Senate seats the Republicans thought they should have won
in 2010 and 2012.
“Republicans were screwed by
campaign consultants fleecing deep-pocketed candidates rather than doing the
work of electing Republicans,” she says. “Republicans should refuse to give
money to the party until we have the names of these people [failed consultants]
and a blood oath that they will never be hired again.”
The book is a collection of her
columns introduced with new political analysis. Of course, she saves some space
to whack Democrats, like Hillary Clinton.
She believes that with President Obama off the ticket, it will be easier for a
Republican to win — and beat Clinton, the Democratic front-runner by miles.
“Without Obama on the ticket, it
won’t be magic again. The only people fainting at Hillary’s speeches will be
chubby gals from NOW,” writes Coulter.
With her 10th book, Coulter has
returned to her original publisher, Regnery Publishing Inc., which has already
mapped out one of their trademark coast-to-coast book and media tours starting
Monday with an appearance on Sean Hannity’s shows. She will do CNN’s Piers
Morgan and Crossfire shows and has a book party October 22 at the National
Press Club hosted by the DailyCaller.com. She will also be on the hot new site
Reddit AMA, or “Ask Me Anything,” on Oct. 21.
Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/new-coulter-book-rages-at-gop-with-change-or-die-theme/article/2537131
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