If Chris Christie and Ann Coulter are Mitt’s best, he’s in trouble

If Chris Christie and Christie stalker Ann Coulter are his best high-profile advocates, his campaign is in serious trouble. Mark Levin takes Gov. Christie to the proverbial woodshed, lawyer vs. lawyer, on the Romney campaign’s attacks against Newt’s ‘ethics violations’ on yesterday’s radio program:

During his 7+ minute monologue, Mark Levin eviscerates Chris Christie, mostly on Christie’s using the left’s tactics on Newt. Levin also questions whether Gov. Christie is a real conservative, asking what Christie’s “top 10 conservative achievements are.” Levin said that taking on the teachers unions was a conservative achievement before asking “What are the other 9″?

Ann Coulter has been flighty for a decade or more. She isn’t stupid but she’s more enamored with hearing the sound of her voice than she’s interested in being a thoughtful, intelligent contributor to the conservative movement. Coulter’s latest column is the latest installment in a series of jump-the-shark moments:

To act as if Obamacare is the same thing as “Romneycare” is just a word game, on the order of acting like a “gun” has the same properties as a “gunny sack,” or “fire” is the same thing as a “firefly.”

Coulter’s arguments run into difficulty when they run into these stubborn things called facts. Like these, for instance:

Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”

The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts. One of those meetings, on July 20, 2009, was in the Oval Office and presided over by President Barack Obama, the records show.

“The White House wanted to lean a lot on what we’d done in Massachusetts,” said Jon Gruber, an MIT economist who advised the Romney administration on health care and who attended five meetings at the Obama White House in 2009, including the meeting with the president. “They really wanted to know how we can take that same approach we used in Massachusetts and turn that into a national model.”

In short, this is proof that Ms. Coulter isn’t the reliable, albeit exotic, conservative she used to be. She’s essentially stalked Gov. Christie, praising him to the point of looking like a school girl with the worst crush imaginable, in the hope of talking him into runing for president. It’s proof that there’s a strong connection between Romneycare and Obamacare. Arguing otherwise is foolishness.

It was particularly enjoyable listening to Levin explode the myth that Gov. Christie could favor gun control, believe in global warming and still be a conservative. Gov. Christie certainly gained points with conservatives with his gruff talk towards the teachers unions. That said, Mr. Levin is right in questioning if he’s got other conservative accomplishments.

Gov. Romney isn’t being served well by his surrogates, whether we’re talking about Chris Christie or Ann Coulter.

Tags: Ethics, Newt Gingrich, Debate, Talk Radio, Mark Levin, Chris Christie, Global Warming, Gun Control, Ann Coulter, Mitt Romney, Surrogates, GOP, Election 2012

Authored By Gary Gross Let Freedom Ring Blog