Ann Coulter Calls GOP Leaders’ Midterm Predictions ‘Delusional,’ ‘Completely Insane’
Ann Coulter is really invested in raining on the Republicans’ November victory parade. Coulter went on Fox and Friends to expand upon her latest insightful/faux-offensive hybrid column to say, well, everything she should have said in that piece and nothing that she shouldn’t have. Except this time, she not only scolded Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and John Boehner for touting a landslide victory before it happens, she called them “delusional” and “completely insane,” adding that she was “nowhere near as optimistic” as they are about November.
American politics have evolved such that, when not trying too hard to be crazy, Ann Coulter actually shines as the voice of reason among right-wing pundits and Republican elected officials alike. She noted that, while Republicans are being loud about their upcoming, as-yet-undetermined victories, the Democrats are quietly working to prevent those victories from happening. It’s not something the Democrats haven’t done before:
I’ve noticed the Democrats aren’t saying that, which is exactly what they did in 1998, so, all of these—that was in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal—all of these Republicans were going ‘it’s going to be a blowout, it’s going to be a blowout.’ Theres no way it could’ve been a blowout because just four years earlier Republicans had taken about forty districts where people in their entire lifetimes had never, ever voted, their grandparents hadn’t voted Republican, so of course we were going to lose some seats. But when you watched TV, you thought this was going to be a huge blowout.
The only time Coulter slipped into her general Coulterness in this interview was an off-handed, seemingly necessary Hitler reference, but it was quickly overshadowed by her substantive claims. Bill O’Reilly has managed to redefine himself as the sober, paternal voice of the conservative movement– it’s hard to listen to this Ann Coulter, compare her to early 2000s Ann Coulter, and not imagine she’s trying to do the same.
The Fox and Friends segment below:
