I never expected to ever say, "Poor Ann Coulter." But - poor Ann Coulter. I really feel badly for her, in a manner of speaking. But not for the reason you think. Not because Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States. Rather, I feel bad for her because of her responsibility in that victory.
Remember the famous video where Ms. Coulter says, "If Chris Christie doesn't run we'll nominate Mitt Romney and we will lose"?
Now, I'm sure that many people, Ann Coulter included, think that this statement was prescient and shows her to be oh-so wise in her election prediction. Except that it doesn't. It shows her culpability.
Mitt Romney probably came closer to winning the presidency than any Republican could have this election. If Chris Christie ran, he could never have gotten the Republican nomination in this Republican atmosphere - compared to today's radical far right, Chris Christie is a moderate. That wasn't going to fly with today's Republican electorate. So, Chris Christie wasn't getting the GOP nomination if he ran, despite whatever the weeping Ann Coulter postured.
However, what Ann Coulter did do was help build up the pedestal of Chris Christie among Republicans who didn't really know him. She helped make Chris Christie seem to Republicans that he was The Republican Savior. She helped make Chris Christie's voice so deeply important to Republicans that he became the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention.
So, when it turned out that Chris Christie wasn't exactly what Ann Coulter suggested he was, nor what she tried to get Republicans to believe, and Chris Christie then publicly and repeatedly and powerfully embraced the strong leadership of President Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it made Gov. Christie's actions all the more significant to voters...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/election-results-2012_b_2086123.html
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