Danger Will Robinson . . . or Ann Coulter | RedState

As George Bush left office, conservatives who had seen his father put David Souter on the Supreme Court were championing Harriet Miers, fighting each other over immigration policy, supporting TARP, were okay with saving General Motors, and turning a polite blind eye to Bush’s claim that he had to kill the free market to save it. 

Not all of us were.

I am afraid supporting Mitt Romney will undo a lot of the repairs made to the conservative movement in the past few years. Already people are defending inherently not conservative ideas by calling them conservative. Already people are too willing to keep their mouth shut to do no harm to the party and, in the process, are doing harm to the intellectual capital built up within the conservative movement.

Ann Coulter’s defense of Romneycare, released on the same day Romney rejected years of conservative arguments against the social safety net and the welfare state, is a canary in the coal mine. We are returning to that point where the voters decided they could no longer trust conservatives to be principled.

Well, sort of. I think we can trust true conservatives to be principled. What we can’t trust are power-crazed rent seekers like Coulter and the rest of the Romney Ruling Class gang who pretend to be conservative. Conservatives are defined by what they do, and supporting Mittens Romneycare and his leftist works is not a conservative act. So if that’s what you’re doing, don’t pretend to me that you are actually a conservative. Got that, Ann Coulter? And all the rest of you?