Conservative columnist Ann Coulter wants Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to “just pick a position,” saying in an interview with CNN on Tuesday: “I’d have a lot more respect for someone who takes an unpopular position, defends it and sticks to it.”
During the interview, Coulter discussed Paul’s position flip on overseas aid to Israel. In 2011, Paul called for the slashing of all aid to the country, but the senator said Tuesday he did not want to eliminate any foreign aid to Israel.
“I think it’s a little like a compass. It used to be whatever would please 15-year-old Ayn Rand readers was his position,” Coulter said. “Now, it’s whatever will please basically the mainstream media.”
Coulter went on to say she wished the senator would just make up his mind, saying she would have more respect for Paul if he defended a position the media hates.
“I wish he’d just pick a position and go with it, even if — in fact, especially if the media hates it. If it’s against what most people think I’d have a lot more respect for someone who takes an unpopular position, defends it and sticks to it – and, I might add, that’s what his father used to do,” she said.
Watch the interview:
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And just why does what this harridan says matter? I’m sure that it makes the few readers that spring for her books feel like they aren’t insane … but that’s “feel” … doesn’t change the reality. I use to find her offensive, but gladly I’ve moved on to finding her a sad and sorry case of someone who has figured out how to make money off others stupidity. I still despise her and all that she stands for, but I don’t think in the larger scope of things she really matters. She and $ister $arah can battle it out for who can sink the lowest, but in the end they will not matter in the least.
Mo Udall used to have the story down about a politician proclaiming his strongly held principles with a follow up if you don’t like them I’ll change them for you. Not a rare practice with the main problem being too much going back and forth or being for the bill before I was against it. Telling people what they want to hear with different strokes for different folks will always be with us.
Why in the world does CNN continue to kowtow to the extreme right wing? You rarely never see anyone from the left of center given a soapbox to stand on the way CNN does for the Tea Party. Remember, it was CNN who sponsored the Tea Party debate. Blitzer and King were giddy.
Oh Ann, aren’t there some widows or children you could kick to the curb? Do you need to really pick on the poor, pitiful, (but very fast) Rand Paul?