Ann Coulter: 'We Lost The Election'

Ann Coulter shocked Sean Hannity on Wednesday when she conceded that she thinks Republicans should let tax rates for the rich go up.

House Republicans are currently battling President Obama over whether or not to hike taxes on the top 2 percent of earners in the negotiations over the so-called "fiscal cliff."

After Coulter started to say that Republicans should concede on taxes on the very rich, Hannity wondered why the House didn't just pass a bill extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone.

"OK fine, let's do that, but in the end, at some point, if the Bush tax cuts are repealed and everyone's taxes go up, I promise you Republicans will get blamed for it," she said. "It doesn't mean you cave on everything, but there are some things Republicans do that feed into what the media is telling America about Republicans."

"So are you saying that, for PR purposes, that they should give in to Obama on the tax rate?" Hannity asked.

"Not exactly, I--" Coulter said, before stopping herself and saying, "Well, yeah, I guess I am."

"You're saying capitulate to Obama?" Hannity stammered. "We don't have a revenue problem, Ann."

"We lost the election, Sean!" Coulter replied.

Other right-wing pundits, such as Bill Kristol, have echoed Coulter's argument. Kristol famously said that it wouldn't "kill the country" if taxes on millionaires went up.

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[xamarmm]

and not just .... the "not" disappeared from the comment for some reason - I am sure I meat to write it.

[luvdomus]

I notice a trend in media to promote ideas that are so insultingly stupid and unsupportable that they exist only to provoke an angry reaction. The conservatives have borrowed this technique from know-nothing fundamentalists, pseudo-scientific crackpots, Creationists, flat-earthers and the like.

[Abraxas1177]

LOL :D

[Abraxas1177]

I guess, she is just too dumb to insult...

[Jim Smith]

This lady is smarter than fox news .......oh wait everyone is

[xamarmm]

They are like satire - except it is not voluntary as such and that sort of would have made it very funny if it weren't for the fact that there are many people who take them seriously and vote republican, I guess there will be republican president after Obama - sadly, and US will go down the drain even more than they are doing now with a republican politicians making all sorts of problems for the american economy while Obama is to get the blame for it.

[xamarmm]

Sorry, you are right. I won't call her stupid any more - so what do we call her? Totally moron doesn' work either for the same reason - you would insult all those who are total morons... Rocks doesn't spout as much idiocy as she does, so she is clearly dumber than rocks, so anyone who says she is dumb as a rock would insult rocks.

[xamarmm]

I wouldn't be interested - I prefer women who have the ability to think and just spout stupidity around them.

[SupaDr00g]

Two moronic assholes battling to be the most extreme assholes.