Conservatives should âmake it clearâ to Republicans that if they âpass amnesty,â theyâre âgoing on to the death squad with the people who wrecked America,â provocateur/ columnist Ann Coulter told CPAC Saturday.
That comment, which drew laughter and applause, came at the end of a debate with Daily Caller columnist Mickey Kaus, held as âa tribute to âFiring Line,ââ William F. Buckleyâs three-decade TV show. It featured swipes from Coulter at âyuppiesâ (âin L.A., they have gardeners even when they donât have gardensâ); undocumented immigrants (âpeople who crossing the border illegally in the back of trucks marked, you know, âpico de gallo,â hiding in barrels, running from the border guard â itâs not like they didnât know what they were doing was wrongâ); Marco Rubio (âall my life Iâve heard âRepublicans hate black people â Iâve never seen any evidence of it until I read Marco Rubioâs amnesty billâ); and the poor (âitâs a cruel and Selfish thingâŠfor the upper classesâŠto refuse to tell poor people âkeep your knees together before youâre married - that would solve so many of lifeâs problems.ââ)
Kaus, designated as the debateâs liberal, frequently agreed with Coulter, but drew his greatest applause when he said that his side would lose the 2014 elections.
Coulter was among Mitt Romneyâs most enthusiastic high-profile right-wing supporters in the 2012 campaign. That year Coulter told Sean Hannity that she had told Romney at a fundraiser "you owe me and you better be as right-wing a president as Iâm telling everybody youâre going to be,â and that Romney "acknowledged the point and said something to the effect, 'Don't worry.'"
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