‘These People Are Lunatics’: Ann Coulter Goes Off On Republican Candidates During GOP Debate
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Conservative author Ann Coulter had harsh words for three out of the five Republican presidential candidates who took part in Wednesday’s debate.
“So far, 3 of the 5 Republicans want to start wars against China, Russia, Syria and Iran. These people are lunatics,” reacted Coulter on social media after three Republican candidates spent much of the debate calling for military action against Iran and its allies.
During the debate, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley warned Republicans that Iran, Syria, Russia, and China had formed an “unholy alliance” and that America would need to take military action to protect its interests.
On Iran, Haley said, “We need to go and take out their infrastructure that they are using to make those strikes with so they can never do it again. Iran responds to strength. You punch them once and you punch them hard, and they will back off.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took a similar stance and said, “If you want to stop the 40+ attacks on military personnel in the Middle East, you have to strike in Iran. If you want to make a difference, you cannot just continue to have strikes in Syria on warehouses, you actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran.”
Scott also called for the United States to “destroy, to the extent possible, the Russian military” through Ukraine and declared, “My foreign policy is simple. You cannot negotiate with evil, you have to destroy it.”
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said the United States should “continue to isolate Iran so that their only friends in the world are part of the evil foursome: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.”
On Russia’s war with Ukraine, Christie said:
Let’s remember the last time that we turned our back on a shooting war in Europe. It bought us just a couple of years, and then 500,000 Americans were killed in Europe to defeat Hitler. This is not a choice. This is the price we pay for being the leaders of the free world, and the fact is this alliance is not just with Russia and China. Governor Haley knows this. Iran is in the middle of this as well, and so is North Korea, and they are all working to support Russia right now.
He concluded, “In 1992, this country made a promise to Ukraine. We said if you return nuclear missiles that were part of the old Soviet Union to Russia, and they invade you, we will protect you. An American promise that’s 31 years old is no different than an American promise that’s made tonight on this stage. We need to stand by it, and those of us who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis took less hawkish positions than Haley, Scott, and Christie.
Ramaswamy pointed to America’s recent history of disastrous and expensive conflicts in the Middle East and argued that the United States should focus on its own problems at home, while Ron DeSantis vowed, “We are not going to send your sons and daughters to Ukraine.”
