Fox Hosts: Caitlyn Jenner’s Real Bravery Is In Being A Conservative (VIDEO)

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Fox News hosts Andrea Tantaros and Eric Bolling said Monday that Caitlyn Jenner’s real bravery rested in her declaration of being a Republican instead of her gender transition.

They made the comments during a panel on “The Five” discussing the reality TV star’s public debut as a woman on the cover of Vanity Fair’s June issue.

“I think she looks great,” co-host Julie Roginsky said of the cover. “For the record, I think she looks fantastic and I’m happy for her that she’s finally at peace with herself.”

Tantaros then interjected with a reference to Jenner’s pre-transition interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, in which she said her politics were “kind of more on the conservative side.”

“I think it was more courageous to come out as a conservative than to come out as Caitlyn, I mean truthfully,” Tantaros said. “I also think that she looks better now and I really mean that. Probably because she’s happy … and visually, and I’m being totally honest because I really love this look and I support — he looks better as a she.”

“I wasn’t smirking about anything that was going on here. I was smirking because I had the exact same talking points,” Bolling later added. “Bruce Jenner did something that was very difficult. Bruce Jenner did something that he knew was probably going to give him a lot of grief. Bruce Jenner stood up and loudly and proudly declared that he was a Republican.”

Tantaros’ and Bollings’ awkward approaches to Jenner’s transition followed a mocking segment about the reality TV star on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto.” Host Neil Cavuto had wondered “what the hell is going on?” with Jenner before comparing gender transitions to the fall of Roman civilization.

They weren’t the only ones to draw attention to Jenner’s conservative views, though. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), known for his colorful Twitter personality, wondered on Twitter whether Caitlyn was a still a Republican post-transition:

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