A 180 on Christie is a whole lot easier than a 360.

But in any case - - the fat is in the fire now.

She is probably a wiser woman now. Good, we need her.

He is a Democrat disguised as a Republican. I would never vote for him. Ann called it right.

her record on candidates is pathetic. she lacks wisdom and is arrogant.

The pundit class should come to lucianne.com and read the comments here for real insight and wisdom. Very many folks here (not me, Im afraid) could see through Christie from the very beginning. Who knew a tub of lard could be so transparent? Well, some here have the xray vision to see through His Unctuousness. Coulter and a few others would do well to monitor our board here and learn.

A wise and prudent decision by one of the University of Michigan Law School´s most distinguished graduates...After all, how does one continue to defend The Garden State´s 55th Chief Executive after he reportedly proclaimed he agreed with the loopy, leftist current Governor of New York on "98% of the issues"?

All northeast Republicans are only one degree off of being a Democrat and will always cave to demands by Democrats. We need to stop nominating liberal Republicans if we want to take back the Presidency.

#1 LOL! actually the fat has been in the fire since he bear hugged Obama after Sandy and told the world what a great job Obama was doing.

I don´t think as highly of Christie as I once did. It turns out that he´s just another go with the flow pol, but ANYTHING would be better than what we have now.

There´s room for Chris Christie in our tent. He accomplished something against his own people (labor unions) that we couldn´t do.

He´s popular because LoFo voters just remember the win. He speaks off the cuff which is so refreshing even if he is a jerk. I´m ready for repubs to flatly defend themselves also.

Ann is frustrated as the rest of us are.

Christie has no business at a conservative gathering. He´s not conservative. He´s not presidential material, either. He is great for the Garden State because he can still appeal to the Snookies and the Situations who make up the mindset of the voters there. Yet, he does have some understanding that governance is not about lining your own pockets (that´s the thing that separates him from the Democrats).

So, while I don´t particularly like him. I do think he has done well for NJ and I´d like for him to stay there as governor

I thought George W. was a conservative until I had the benefit of hindsight. If I can forgive myself, I can forgive Ann. I´m sure both men in question are fine fellows. They just aren´t conservative where it counts and where it counts is spending.

Also, I´m sure Ann doesn´t need my forgiveness or give a hoot about having it. Either way, I´m glad she isn´t going to support Christie anymore.

We liked Chris Christie because he seemed to have some thought of getting the budget under New Jersey under control and he wouldn´t be pushed around. However it soon became clear even to him that New Jersey didn´t want to have their budget under control and that in order to survive they had to have lots of Federal dollars coming into their state.

Christie wanted to be governor. He traded his conservative principles for Federal cash. Which means he never had the conservative principles in the first place.

i don´t believe what Chris Christie does as governor of the liberal state of NJ reflects what he would do as president of all the people.

#5, you´re forgiven that you didn´t "see through" Christie earlier.

I did, but that´s because I live in NJ -only a few miles from Christie´s home in Mendham- and I´ve been watching him since his deplorable early political career in the ´90s.

Christie has never been a conservative. His history as a County freeholder was bad enough that he was defeated in the next primary, after only one term.

And if Christie were ever to become a national candidate, he has character issues that would be seized upon by Dems to derail him. (No huge scandal that I´m aware of, but stuff more along the lines of John Kerry´s "do you know who I am" attitude, rather than John Edwards´s creepy infidelity).

Rhetorical question: why do so-called conservatives change to semi-libs, but libs never become more conservative? It is getting to the point that I can trust nothing anybody says. I´m afraid we conservatives are in big trouble.

Something to be said to this Conservative´s defense. Because Christie came out strong and unafraid to take it into the faces of libs, we began to gather round him. We were in agreement with him when going after schools, teacher´s unions and right there fighting beside him. BUT, as we began to see into his true character, (gun control, immigration, and other unprincipled values) we began to dig a little deeper. No harm in looking; especially when there is time to change opinions. Happy to see/hear that Ann has come to her senses. It must be difficult to write and find that no one is reading the books you authored.

Coulter figured out she was wrong and changed her mind. Christie has not yet figured out he was wrong but there is a possibility he will. The Democrats never figure out they are wrong. If more spending doesn´t work then they spend more. If bigger government doesn´t work they make it bigger. If higher taxes doesn´t work they make them higher.

Cristie is now using Hurricane Sandy as the excuse for his failures.

Everything wrong is Sandy´s fault and the new mission is to recover from Christie.

Guess he thinks the entire state is on the Jersey shore.

Between ANN COULTER´S ignorant fawning over Fat Boy Chrissie and Dick Morris being a total joke....they both completely RUINED any credibility that Fox News wished that they had...since those two idiots, I do not watch anyone, especially Hannity with his boyfriend Beckel (dont forget his ex-boyfried Colmes) on Fox (especially Loofa O´Really?) except for Cavuto....

Dont care what pundits, strategists, or lawyers on Fox think, say, or do....it sure didnt do any good for our side last election, did it? They could ALL use a lesson from this great salon with its wonderful fellow L-Dotters! Wise up Fox News! Competition will soon be on the air (new conservative cable news) this summer, cant wait!

Semper Paratus

Anyone here ever see An Coulter and Donald Trump at the same carnival at the same time?

Mercifully, more and more are seeing the R´s for what they are, namely unprincipled hustlers. Christie is a prime example.

Coulter is damaged goods. She has no credibility left anymore as it has become evident on more than one issue that conservatism is not her core concern.

There´s an important cautionary tale here. A person´s true character can only be revealed over time and in observance of their actions, not their statements, in a variety of difficult circumstances. America has developed a disturbing tendency to quickly lurch from one promising candidate to another after minimal time getting to know them.

Obama is a prime example on the left. But truthfully, we are seeing the same kind of too quick falling for candidates on the conservative side too. Christie has now self-vetted himself. But what about Rubio, Cruz, and Rand Paul, just to name a few? I personally like something about all 3, but I´m troubled by how quickly people have stampeded to one or another of them based on one or two speeches or actions.

They may all very well turn out to be the principled, courageous conservatives we want them to be. But let´s make sure we "make haste slowly and carefully" before we anoint one of them.

after reading all of these posts it is sad to say that a lot of people have very low standards for their elected representatives.

honesty, courage and conviction are what we should require from our representatives. there was a lot of that on display at CPAC.

#19 ... Heard about that new news media last night thru CPAC on CSPAN This was unknown under this roof and we hope to know more details as the year progresses. This is truly exciting. Thank you, Andrew B. We will be eternally grateful for the doors you opened before your short time on this earth was ended.

If we don´t believe in gurus and pundits, we are spared a lot of angst when they follow their intellects and emotions, which are probably no stronger or more healthy than ours.

Their flipflops will only send us into apoplexy if we are hanging on their every word as though it was gospel.

I care not at all that Coulter did a 180. She´s one of the very few who calls a spade a ******* shovel.

#12 - my sentiments exactly. he is the state equivalent of a Low Information Voter - give me free things and I will vote for you and like you.

Ann Coulter is a super star and its too bad some people are turned off by her wit. She makes every dem look like a complete idiot in a 1-on-1 battle. Has she made some bad calls and said some things too quick - sure she has, but who hasn´t.

Republicans had better learn to stop eating their own. I would imagine that the same purists are going to attack Ben Carson when he says the wrong thing.

#1 - hilarious

Ann had the best line at C-Pac when she said Ted Kennedy had the only confirmed kill in the war on women. Also called out Clinton on rape. She knows how to stick it to dems.

Christie should never have implied that Obama is a good guy. That was a fatal error.

Coulter is a comic genius and a conservative bomb thrower par excellence.

Her foray with Christie was forgivable and his smooch with Barky was out of her control.

Let not the perfect become the enemy of the really funny.

why shouldn´t Ann say what she thinks? It isn´t a positive attribute to never change your mind about anything. cheap shot to pretend that it is.

IMO much of Christie´s problem is self control. He is too emotional. That makes him look good when he stands up to a $90K/year elementary teacher crying about her tough life. OTOH it makes him look idiotic when kissing Obama´s feet for FEMA aid.

good #1.

#7 points out that the NE GOP must live and deal with more liberal voters. Most will do what it takes - good or bad - to stay in office there. As will nearly every pol anywhere.

Principles take second place. Or third. Or don´t matter at all.

Ann Coulter isn´t the only person to be disappointed by a republican politician.
She has a lot of company, including presidents who placed their trust in republicans they appointed to various government positions and judgeships.

It would take a state the size of Texas to hold all the republicans who once carried the hopes of republicans and conservatives only to dash our hopes with a sharp turn to the left.

We could start with republicans appointed to the Supreme Court who joined the left almost as soon as they were sworn in.
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It is about TIME!

Ann is a pundit - she shouldn´t be picking your candidates for you, that is your job. Christie is still the best governor NJ has ever seen in my lifetime. He isn´t a conservative like the ones we have in SC, but Tim Scott isn´t electable in NJ. Nor is Jim DeMint. Conservatism is determined by geography and constituents - to pretend otherwise is to lose.

Ann´s book sales must be off.

The ultra conservatives that think Mitt was just not conservative enough might be rethinking the hard line stuff. Rand Paul took the CPAC straw poll and if he manages to be leader of the GOP the democrats are already looking for moderate candidates for 2014.

Bible tells it all--the children of light are less wise to the ways of the world as the children of darkness.

Not that Newt G in 2016 played the children of light role--seems he started the demonization of the rich and it stuck.

Politicians change their stance and positioning, it is only fair that pundits notice and change or intensify support.

A lot of us did a 180 on Christie long before she did.

I did a 180 on Ann Coulter more than a year ago. I believe it was when she used the "FA*" word for gay people. After her embrace of Christie over the other Republican nominees for President, I wondered why I ever paid any attention to her.

For those born last week, Willard was contemptuous of principled conservative values, throughout his career. A fact. Obviously for some, a conservative is defined as one who wears a shirt, tie, blazer and laces his shoes. Predicable and sad.

FTA: "And imagine if Ann had been so influential that voters had actually followed her advice and elected Christie President!" Well, regardless of what you think of Christie, he would have been a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

Christie is good for NJ.

New Jersey went for Obama over Romney 58 to 41 per cent. Christie is doing what he needs to do to survive in that Blue of a state. Infuriating? Often, yes. But what´s the alternative? Ann has woken up to these realities... Realities emphasized by The Hug.

You know something? I am real tired of Karl Rove, Chris Christie and now Ann Coulter. Perhaps ANN has realized the error of her ways but she was blind to the traitor Chris Christie for too long and I am afraid she is just "going along to get along" once she realized how wrong she was about Christie. She should have known better long ago.