Katherine Vasquez & Nicholas Gagatch

Professor Peter Blair

UWRT 1102-021

October 21, 2014

Is Romney What The Country Needs?

Throughout the majority her twenty-twelve letter titled ROMNEY IS WHAT THE
COUNTRY NEEDS NOW, Ann Coulter both openly attacks Obamacare and disgraces the
Democratic Party. Ann Coulter is a conservative political commentator and author. She gained
her publicity in 1996 when she was hired as a legal correspondent by MSNBC. Since then, she
has frequently appeared on television and radio news networks. She has also authored ten books,
including Godless: The Church of Liberalism(2006), If Democrats Had Any Brains, Theyd Be
Republicans(2007), and Demonic: The Church of Liberalism(2011). Coulter is well known for
her own brand of conservative based bias and slander in her works, which has earned her a
unique, conservative fan base. Ann Coulter is passionate about expressing her views and beliefs,
as heavily biased and fallacious as they are. In this letter, Coulter provides no concrete evidence
to back her claims on why and how Obamacare is going to ruin The United States. She also
discusses why the Democratic Partys ideas and policies are generally flawed, but fails once
again to provide any credible or relevant evidence to support these claims. Instead, she provides
multiple and various types of fallacies throughout her entire letter. She doesnt even mention
Mitt Romney, the topic of her letter as listed in the title, until the last few remaining paragraphs.

Coulter starts her letter by stating If Obamacare is not stopped, it will permanently
change the political culture of this country. There will be no going back. America will become a
less productive, less wealthy nation (Paragraph 1 Coulter). This quote is a clear example of
slippery slope (Wood); she is implying that if we do not stop Obamacare from becoming
effective, then the whole country will be immediately falling down to disaster. Ann Coulter uses
this slippery slope as a scare tactic all throughout; although it is true that Obamacare has its cons
and pros, which the author does not state , it is just evidence that Ann Coulter is only looking at
one side of the coin and she continues to base her statements purely on her personal opinion
(Amadeo). Two other examples of slippery slope are when Ann Coulter states that Also similar
to Communist systems, youll have to know someone in power to get decent medical care and
Well be a country with no serious military, no wealth and no hope. (Paragraph 8) These
extreme and even irrelevant conclusions are nothing more than her heavily biased and
foresighted opinion on what she think Obamacare will do without providing any information that
she can base her accusations on, according to The Daily Caller calling President Obama a
Socialist or Communist is erroneous because Socialism is based on the governments rules,
everything is pretty much owned and controlled by the countrys government; which is not
anywhere near the reality for the United States (Given).
Another example is found when she states that Democrats had been waiting for 50 years
to win huge majorities in the white house and Senate and Presidency, so they could check off this
box on FDRs Unfinished Business. Again, this is just Coulter throwing her opinion out there
which comes to be a good example of Red Herring because is just trying to give irrelevant
information and throwing readers off (Wood).

Also, begging the question is basically all throughout the paper (Wood), Coulter keeps
re-stating that Obamacare is not going to any good to the country, but then again, where is she
getting this information from? In paragraph eight she compares the United States to the Soviet
Union saying that the people from the Union could not get bread if the government did not
approve it. This is a big example of false analogy because she is comparing what is going on
NOW to what happened in the PAST in a different country (Wood). The comparison may not be
accurate, plus, how did we end up talking about the Soviet Union? And what does the Union
back then have in common with the modern United States? Towards the end of the article, when
she finally mentions Mitt Romney, she describes him as a doctor who specializes in multiple
gunshot wounds or an oncologist who takes only stage 4 cancer patients, she is clearly using
false analogies (McClintock); she is making Romney seem extraordinary, not a common
individual and her words only flatter his persona instead of showing both sides of the coin.
In the last paragraph she mentions how the only way to rid ourselves of this national
poison pill is to elect Romney as our next President. Sounds like another example of slippery
slope, as if Romney does not become President, chaos will come to us; what if the Republican
Party had elected another candidate instead of him? She frames her argument as if ONLY
Romney can save us. Maybe she could have gotten away without having the word only on her
statement, by adding it she is narrowing it down to one option which is Mitt Romney, no one
else. Ann coulter is clearly trying to make Obama look like the villain and Romney as the hero
but she does not mention that before Obamacare was implemented Mitt Romney already had a
law in Massachusetts almost identical to Obamacare, so what does she have to argue against it?
(Moore).

In this Letter, Coulter was incapable of logically and rationally getting her points across.
She failed to present and argue her views and points on the issue of Obamacare using any form
of evidence. She immediately jumped to her own heavily biased, foresighted conclusions of what
Obamacare will do to America. She uses examples of this slippery slope fallacy as a scare tactic
throughout the letter. She used a radical approach that completely overlooks the purpose and
pros of Obamacare. She also made clearly biased remarks, including a comparison that pins
obamacare to the soviet union. Furthermore, she contradicted her own argument when she
praised Mitt Romney, a man who enacted the law that Obamacare is modeled after. Although
Ann Coulter is undoubtedly passionate about her views and beliefs, it seems that she doesnt
realize that being passionate does not help if there is no evidence backing your claims. On a
general basis, Ann Coulters writings provide some of the most clearly stated fallacies out of any
publications on the political spectrum.

Works Cited
Amadeo, Kimberly. "ObamaCare Pros and Cons." AboutNews. 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 18 Oct. 2014.

Given, Casey. "Stop Calling Obama a Socialist." The Daily Caller. 11 July 2014. Web. 20 Oct.
2014. <http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/11/stop-calling-obama-a-socialist/>.

Judith Nadell. New York: Longman, 2003. 304-311. Print

McClintok, Ann. Propaganda Techniques in Todays Advertising. The Longman Reader. Ed.

Moore, John. "Romneycare Vs. Obamacare: Key Similarities & Differences." CBS Boston. 13
Nov. 2013. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/11/13/romneycare-vsobamacare-key-similarities-differences/>.Print.

Wood, Nancy. Essentials of Argument. Upper Saddle River: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006.

ROMNEY IS WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS NOW

October 31, 2012

The single most important issue in this election is ending the national nightmare of Obamacare.
If Obamacare is not stopped, it will permanently change the political culture of this country. There
will be no going back. America will become a less productive, less wealthy nation. What wealth
remains will have to be plowed into Obamacare -- to the delight only of the tens of thousands of
government bureaucrats administering it.
There won't be one moment marking the end of America. Everything will just gradually get worse,
like trains and the tax code, until a bustling, prosperous nation is as distant a memory as pleasurable
train travel and one-page tax returns.
The reason we have Obamacare is not because the public was clamoring for the federal government
to take over health care. It's because the Democrats had 60 senators. In the frozen ideology of the left,
it doesn't matter if anyone wants government health care.
Democrats had been waiting around for 50 years to win huge majorities in the House and Senate and
the presidency, so they could check off this box on "FDR's Unfinished Business."
Unlike all other major legislation in the nation's history, Obamacare was passed exclusively by one
party that had just won an aberrationally large majority in Congress. Not a single Republican in
either the House or Senate voted for it.
Republicans have passed legislation on such partisan votes, too, but never something that would
fundamentally change the lives of every living American. Nationalizing one-sixth of the economy is
not the kind of thing that should be passed by one party sneering, "Ha, ha -- we have 60 votes!"
As soon as all Americans have been thrown off their employer-provided insurance plans and are
forced to start depending on the government for health care, Republicans will never be able to repeal
it.
The private insurance market will be gone. Most Americans won't be able to conceive of getting
health care that doesn't come from the government -- just as people in the Soviet Union couldn't
imagine how they'd get bread if the government didn't provide it.
(Also similar to Communist systems, you'll have to know someone in power to get decent medical
care.)
A powerful health care Leviathan will arise, composed of self-paced, well-pensioned, unionized
government workers who will manage our health care from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., except federal holidays,
sick days, mental health days and in bad weather. (The day after Hurricane Sandy, everything was
open on the mostly unaffected Upper East Side of New York -- but not the post office.)
This new phalanx of government workers will spend the bulk of their time campaigning to ensure the
election of more Democrats who promise to lessen their workload and increase their benefits. Even
Republicans will have to run for office promising only to enlarge Obamacare. Newt Gingrich will be

calling plans to alter Obamacare "right-wing social engineering."

The Democrats' idea for funding their endless government programs is always the same: Tax the rich,
and just keep taxing them, no matter how high taxes have to be raised. One thing all such people
have in common is that they've never had a real job, meaning a job from which you can be fired. Not
Bernie Sanders, not Barack Obama, not Joe Biden, not Chuck Schumer and on and on.
Such people simply cannot grasp that doubling tax rates will not double government revenues
because people won't work as hard for half the money. Their ideas about tax policy will put America
on a high-speed train to government deficits rivaling Greece. We'll be a country with no serious
military, no wealth and no hope.
Even before the train wreck of Obamacare, health care was half-a-disaster because that's the
percentage of medical care in this country that was already provided by the government -- via
Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans hospitals and other public hospitals.
In 2008, a single county in Florida -- Miami-Dade -- received more money in Medicare home health
care payments than the entire rest of the country combined. This continued throughout the entire year
and was finally noticed by our Department of Health and Human Services in December 2009.
Do you think it would take a private insurer two years to catch onto the fact that health care claims
coming from a single county in Florida were larger than the rest of the country combined?
Lifelong politicians haven't the first idea what an efficient, operating system would even look like. If
only we had a presidential candidate who had spent his life working in the private sector ...
The way to fix health care is to take as much as possible away from the government and give it to the
private sector. It is a universal law of nature that everything run by the government gets worse and
more expensive over time -- the postal service, airport security and Amtrak. Everything run by the
private sector gets better and cheaper over time -- cellphones, computers, hair products, dishwashers,
etc.
You know who specializes in rescuing failing enterprises and making things work? Mitt Romney.
Contrary to ignorant slanders about Romney's private sector work, his specialty was not buying
thriving companies and stripping them for parts. Rather, the Bain Capital model was to take
companies that were on the verge of collapse -- about to cut all jobs, pensions and health care for
their workers -- and save the business.
Romney is the Red Adair of his profession. He's like a doctor who specializes in multiple gunshot
wounds or an oncologist who takes only Stage 4 cancer patients. Yes, there were layoffs, but also lots
and lots of saved businesses and saved lives.
Romney will be the most accomplished incoming president since Dwight Eisenhower.
Not only has Romney promised to issue a 50-state waiver from Obamacare on his first day in office
and then seek a formal repeal and replacement, but he'll know how to do it. The savior of dying
companies will fix health care in this country so that no Democrat will be able to wreck it again.
The only way to rid ourselves of this national poison pill, set to destroy both health care and the
nation at large, is to elect Mitt Romney our next president.