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January 23, 2012 3:00 PM EST
On a Sunday morning segment of "Fox & Friends" yesterday, conservative author Ann Coulter slammed South Carolina winner Newt Gingrich as the candidate who would "throw out the baby and keep the bath water." She also claimed that the very act of supporting the former Speaker had disqualified South Carolina as an indicator of the national mood.
"Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than to beat Obama in the fall," Coulter began in a fiery condemnation of Gingrich, currently tied with Romney in Florida.
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South Carolina has a history of picking the eventual Republican nominee, a pattern that has held since 1980.
But Coulter, who has been a Romney supporter since Chris Christie declined to run, dismissed the state's importance. The conservative author and pundit argued that it was "going back to its Democratic roots" by supporting the former Speaker, and claimed that the state had proven it didn't represent Republican voters by the very fact that Gingrich won.
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"We saw it in the debates when Gingrich would say things that didn't really make sense," said Coulter. "That is what you usually associate with Democrats, which I described in my last book, 'Demonic,' how mobs behave."
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Ann Coulter went on to pick apart several of the remarks that generated the biggest applause for Gingrich during the debates.
"Something that sounds like it makes sense like, 'Mitt Romney doesn't have influence over his super PAC, that makes you wonder if he'll have influence as president,'" quoted Coulter.
"How many times does Mitt Romney have to say it is illegal for a candidate to have influence on the super PAC?"
She also questioned Newt Gingrich's conservative credentials, and argued that the candidate relied on double-talk and low-brow attacks rather than on policy, saying he uses Michele Bachmann's talking points and his own rather notorious history in the House of Representatives.
"She was conservative--Newt Gingrich is the least conservative of these candidates and the least electable!" Coulter exclaimed.
"He took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac," Coulter said, "But, you know, he attacked Paul Ryan's plan on Social Security. So with Newt Gingrich, you throw out the baby and keep the bath water."
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