Ann Coulter: Michael Steele Was 'Right' About Afghanistan, Bill Kristol 'Must Resign'

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is coming to the defense of embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele amid the fallout from his recent comments that the Afghanistan war was one "of Obama's choosing."

Coulter made her reaction to Steele's comments clear in a column published Wednesday on the right-wing website WorldNetDaily:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well.

It has been idiotically claimed that Steele's statement about Afghanistan being Obama's war is "inaccurate" - as if Steele is unaware Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. (No one can forget that - even liberals pretended to support that war for three whole weeks.)

In the piece titled "Bill Kristol Must Resign," Coulter also pushed back against conservative critics who called for Steele's resignation after he made the controversial remarks:

Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war - and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?)

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now, too.

Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican, we're all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a "National Greatness Project," too - other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president - and look how great that turned out!

While a host of prominent Republican voices have condemned Steele and his criticism, Kristol and Cheney were among the few who didn't stop short of demanding the RNC Chairman step down from his post. Coulter in her column concludes: "Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another new Republican position, here's mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign immediately."

Comments

[IllinoisResident]

02:34 PM on 07/17/2010

Bill Kristol never liked Michael Steele and took the first opportunity to condemn his statements. However, Ann Coulter tells it like it is. This IS Obama's war which is the result of his anti-Iraq campaign rhetoric. Bush's Afghanistan war was years ago. This is Obama's Afghanistan war.

I suggest reading Coulter's article - it makes alot of sense.

[atomicdog52]

07:53 AM on 07/13/2010

Coulter is just a bad person. Reminds me of that scene in the Hangover where the guy describes his girl as being a bad person "to her core"...It's as if she wakes up in the morning and just sees "red". Too bad Coulter, the sky is blue but you will never see it!

[kdlaiusa]

10:19 PM on 07/12/2010

They must both resign....but from where?

[dlswriter]

02:28 AM on 07/13/2010

fanned

Good one dude.

[LXO3]

08:37 PM on 07/12/2010

They should of never been hired to start with! DIABOLICAL LIARS!

[Cowboylove]

07:50 PM on 07/12/2010

As usual Ann Coulter rattles on and makes not even a tiny bit of sense.

[IllinoisResident]

02:35 PM on 07/17/2010

Then you must agree with Bill Kristol?

[Cowboylove]

06:52 PM on 07/17/2010

On the subject of Ann Coulter, probably. On everything else, not so much.

[goodog]

06:25 PM on 07/12/2010

Coulter misquotes Michael Steele in order to rescue him. It's not really in contention, whether Obama has owned the war in Afghanistan.

Obama obviously has. He ran on the escalation throughout the election and has escalated it.

What other Republicans took issue with is Steele saying the war is unwinnable and that Americans are not behind the troops effort anyway.

To any extent that it may be true, politicians aren't allowed to say anything remotely close to the idea that Osama bin Laden has won because our troops are incapable of doing what they're trained to do... fight that ground war... both of which are the other way of saying what Steele said.

Coulter's only pretending that the controversy about Steele's statement is about ownership of the war, when it's really about how Steele called into question the notion of the American soldier's supremacy.... the third rail right next to the third rail of Social Security.

[asiclilpup]

03:24 PM on 07/12/2010

I find it quite humorous watching the reFUGLYkins all fail their purity test.

[dennissinned]

02:59 PM on 07/12/2010

That long neck of hers is perfect for when her head does the 360 ala Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

[dennissinned]

02:58 PM on 07/12/2010

Let them all resign.

[Marvin Hadley Jr]

01:38 PM on 07/12/2010

Coulter and Kristol -- they have kissed, no?

[StopMakingSense2]

12:24 PM on 07/12/2010

Beauty may be skin deep but....

[WCDR]

11:44 AM on 07/12/2010

I think Joe Friday is Ann Coulter.....who else could come up with such right-wing psychobabble!

[ljkcan]

02:41 AM on 07/12/2010

She needs to come and see us in Canada again. She got a lesson is why she is so despised by many it was just students expressing what is tolerable in society and what is not.

[lackofoversight]

01:55 AM on 07/12/2010

I could tolerate Ann Coulter better when her mouth was wired shut.

[ljkcan]

02:41 AM on 07/12/2010

I have to fan you for that.

[Sally Sefton]

02:26 PM on 07/12/2010

I have to also fan you...love this one.

[78Thomas]

10:48 PM on 07/11/2010

Neocons are eating their own.
Love it!