Ann Coulter Battles John Stossel and a Room Full of Libertarians
Becket Adams
The Blaze
2/22/2013
…“Libertarians and pot,” Coulter laughed. “This is why people think libertarians are pu**ies.”…
…She continued:
We’re living in a country that is 70-percent socialist, the government takes 60 percent of your money. They are taking care of your health care, of your pensions. They’re telling you who you can hire, what the regulations will be. And you want to suck up to your little liberal friends and say, “Oh, but we want to legalize pot.”
You know, if you’re a little more manly you would tell them what your position on employment discrimination is. How about that? But it’s always “We want to legalize pot.”…
…“How is it any of your business what I choose to put in my body if I’m not affecting anyone else?” one student asked during the Q&A session, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd.
“First of all, for alleged individualists, you’re very mob-like,” Coulter said. “Second of all, it is my business because we are living in a welfare state … Right now, I have to pay for, it turns out, coming down the pike, your health care. I have to pay for your unemployment when you can’t hold a job. I have to pay for your food, for your housing. Yeah, it’s my business!”…
Read the entire article and watch the video at The Blaze.
Update: Ann Coulter calls out Libertarians for avoiding the tough issues and playing popular politics
…Does she have a point?
Pat thought so, saying, “I think that’s pretty good. I agree with that.”
Glenn, thinking more on the side of the way the progressive Republicans like John McCain will drop their principals and become buddy-buddy with Democrats in Congress on issues like immigration to earn votes, wasn’t so sure.
“Who do you know that is a Libertarian that is friends with somebody like Paul Krugman or Barack Obama?” Glenn asked. ” I guess maybe in Hollywood?”
But that’s not the way Pat was looking at it. Pat, like Ann, was referring to the Libertarian base — the young, Ron Paul, Occupy Wall Street types.
That, Glenn can identify with. Those are the Libertarians that refuse to have a conversation with Glenn about anything because they don’t see eye-to-eye on one or two issues. They’re the Libertarians that will scream and shout about the drug war, but don’t make any noise about the heavy regulations destroy small businesses and killing jobs. Whether it’s because they’re young, and that’s not really affecting them yet or it’s because that’s their mechanism to bring people from the left to their side of the argument, it’s making them a tool for the Democrats and an antagonist to the Republicans…
…Glenn went on to add that this is why he doesn’t understand so many of the Ron Paul supporters who dislike him for not always agreeing with Ron Paul. They let what he supports dictate all of their opinions on everyone else. If someone doesn’t stand shoulder to shoulder with Ron Paul, they immediately are on the attack.
“You are supposed to have a mind of your own,” Glenn said, “and you’re not supposed to be about an individual. Libertarianism is about a set of ideas — maximum freedom — not an individual.”…
Update 2: Spending, Debt, and Public Sector Unions: Former Governor Ben Cayetano on Hawaii’s Fiscal Mess Reason TV
“When the special interests become too powerful,” warns Ben Cayetano, “the voter only has the collective conscience of the people who are in public office.”
Cayetano was a popular two-term Democratic governor of the state of Hawaii who held office from 1994 to 2002. In 2012, Cayetano became alarmed by what he saw as out-of-control spending and special interests run amok. He came out of retirement and made a failed bid to become the mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii’s largest city.
Cayetano opposed the city’s $5.26 billion rail project, which he says costs too much and will not address Honolulu’s traffic problems. The massive system and inevitable cost overruns, he fears, simply piles more debt on a government already straining under unfunded liabilities for public-sector pensions and benefits. “They are going to end up raising taxes,” Cayetano told Reason TV. “Or the city will go bankrupt.”
In a wide-ranging conversation, the 73-year-old Filipino American discusses the Aloha State’s fiscal mess, the trouble with Hawaii’s one-party government, and why he believes social issues are distracting voters from more pressing economic problems.
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Update 3: At Legal Insurrection, “Coulter on Stossel shows foolishness of Fordham’s cancellation.”
