Posted on 06/13/2013 12:33:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Wednesdays Hannity on the Fox News Channel, commentator Ann Coulter doubled down on the headline of her latest column by calling Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio the Jack Kevorkian of the GOP.
Asked by host Sean Hannity whether she was for real in her article If the GOP is this stupid, it deserves to die, the conservative firebrand proudly owned the column.
Yes, thats the headline of my excellent column this week, which I highly recommend everyone read, Coulter said. Its just you talk about Chuck Schumer. Well, Chuck Schumer is playing Marco Rubio, the Jack Kevorkian of the Republican Party. If this amnesty bill goes through and it is amnesty step one, is legalization. Everything after that, all the triggers to citizenship are phony triggers. There doesnt have to be a fence. There doesnt have to be E-verify. There just has to be Department of Homeland Security assuring us they have a plan.
Hannity contested Coulters assumption that border security would come before legalization, citing an interview he had with the Florida senator on his radio show earlier in the day. Coulter, the author of Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, dismissed Rubios claim and cited Schumers own preference for legalization over enforcement.
Hannity presented a hypothetical that has been floated about splitting the Senate version of the immigration bill in the House and having two separate votes one on border enforcement and another on so-called legalization. That led to a back-and-forth between the two conservative opinion leaders.
HANNITY: Lets say for example we can bifurcate the bill and control the border first what would Ann Coulter do with the 11 million people who did not respect the laws and sovereignty and came here legally?
COULTER: This is a total fraud and a fig leaf that American people cant sleep at night because the situation is the exactly the same today as it was in 1987.
HANNITY: Youre not answering my question.
COULTER: Its been 20 years
HANNITY: Youre like a liberal
COULTER: No, nothing
HANNITY: Youre not answering my question. COULTER: To the contrary, you are like a liberal making a silly argument.
HANNITY: Im teasing.
COULTER: Its a straw-man argument. Nobody cares.
HANNITY: Hang on.
COULTER: This idea that its an emergency, its a crisis is preposterous.
HANNITY: Ann, hang on a second..
COULTER: The same thing will happen thats happening now.
HANNITY: No. what Im arguing you is if we dont secure our border, we have major national security problem.
COULTER: Yeah.
HANNITY: Im asking you because the House is talking about bifurcating the two provisions. Control the border
COULTER: That would be a disaster.
HANNITY: get it totally secure, verified, secure 100 percent. Then, if that happened and its hypothetical, what would you do with the 11 million people after? Coulter remained steadfast on the idea that splitting the bill would be a disaster.
Then wed have this other bill, Coulter replied. OK, in the abstract, that would be a fine idea. First we request 100 percent enforcement of E-verify 100 percent. They could do that now. If the Congress were serious about enforcing the border, they would demand enforcement of E-verify now. They would build the fence right now. The fence is not some new technology. Its been around since the middle ages. But at this point, because of the House and these Jack Kevorkians of the Republican Party like Kelly Ayotte, who I hope gets a primary opponent, and Marco Rubio, who I hope gets a primary opponent, and the rest of them, theyre going to pass an amnesty bill. If the House passes anything this very important, Hannity viewers, so pay attention here if the House does nothing but say, enforce E-verify, it goes into the conference between the two bodies and it will come out an amnesty bill. At that point if its voted on in the House and in the Senate, we have amnesty. The country is over and the only thing we have left for me and you to do, Sean, is to punish the people who destroyed America.
ME too Z-man...i think she’s givin up on that jasper...allright...
Am I to assume you didnt hear much of Ann during the election?
...you shouldn’t assume anything about anything...comes back to bite you...
She didnt do Romney any favors through any statements she made, and, in fact, did a lot of damage to his campaign.
...again, the exact nature of her damage was...?
Some of Ann’s good points were swallowed up in this back-and-forth with Hannity. She had a bunch of great lines that were just thrown away. Most important, maybe: THERE IS NO CRISIS. Close the border, require e-verify, and there is no crisis. She made the point about chain migration of families also. That should be stopped immediately. Anybody remember what a chain reaction is?
NOPE the repubs nominated the wrong guy...
...there was some other guy out there that was going to do any better? Who might that have been?
You’re correct. I’ve not read any of her books. And, I don’t need to. I’ve listened enough to her to make up my mind about her. She is poison to Conservatives. But, thanks for playing.
If you are unable to figure that out, well, then, nothing I bring to the table will register.
‘...Ive not read any of her books...dont need to...She is poison.....
Okay but how about just TALKIN to someone who HAS read ‘em...
Let him rave about her work and maybe you’ll come around...maybe some smart kid from the YAF can help you...’and he little children shall lead them..’
thanks for the thanks for playing....
This is bigger than endorsing RINOs.
A lot of GOP primary voters and members of congress are going to go on Drudge Report and see the Hispanic turnout was low and that Old Black women helped Obama win Ohio.
Many here on this thread have shared my views.
Grow up, Snot-face.
What is with these intolerant “conservatives” who can’t abide an opinion that differs from what they know to be true without question (even when many others are saying the same thing), and then their immediate reaction is to spout ludicrous ultra-right wing phrases that make them sound exactly like left wing freaks do when they mock conservatives?
There is no such thing as “ultra right wing”.
Learn to read.
My post says that they have a love affair with Rubio. It doesn’t say they are against the bill.
But they might as well be, for they give Rubio unlimited access on their shows to spew his lies, without any opposing views.
They can’t go on saying they are against the bill, and then give its lead spokesman unlimited time to sell it with little fight back on there part.
All because “Rubio is a friend”.
“There is no such thing as ultra right wing.”
Perhaps you’ve misunderstood me.
The fool to whom I’ve been responding is attempting to behave like a caricature of a right-winger.
See how when I didn’t gush and fawn over Ann Coulter’s MANY best-sellers and Ivy League learning, his wild idiocy began?
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