Ann Coulter’s fetid swipe at Jean Rohe reminded me of one of her more famous moments.
In this television appearance, done several months before 9/11, Coulter seemed so insane it rendered her harmless. In retrospect, though, it seems she was sincerely revealing the deep desire of the newly empowered Right to set little ladies straight on Big Daddy Government. If only we knew then just how serious she was and just how much the rest of her party had her back.
February 26, 2001 – Politically Incorrect
Guests on this program were:
Richard Kind
Peter Horton
Ann Coulter
John LottBill: All right. We were talking about chicks and guns. I mean women and guns. What about women and voting? You’re against it?
Ann: Right, I think they should be armed but should not vote.
[ Light laughter ]
Richard: Two women over there just yelled. That’s your only vote, lady. What you just did was a clap.
Ann: No, they all have to give up their vote, not just, you know, the lady clapping and me.
Richard: I’m kidding.
Peter: You do not want women to vote?
Ann: The problem with women voting — and your Communists will back me up on this — is that, you know, women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it.
[ Light laughter ]
And when they take these polls, it’s always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care. And in the last 50 years, in every presidential election but one –’64, the landslide against Goldwater — in 50 years, the men voted for the Republican presidential candidate.
Peter: Which is why we should have women vote.
Richard: I say get rid of the men that vote.
Ann: Ten years after women got to vote, wham, government exploded.
Bill: And there were curtains in the voting booth. That’s not coincidence.
John: Ten years after women were given the right to vote in states, state government expenditure and revenue had doubled in real per-capita terms.
Bill: Right. I think what happened was that feminism won. I’ve said that many times. Women won the battle of the sexes, but they basically wanted men, at a certain point in our history, to do all the bad jobs. We did the work, women stayed home. We paid for stuff. You know, we had to ask women out. We had to kill bugs. We did all the bad jobs. Then feminism came along, and they said, “We want to be equal, we want to do the bad jobs.” Sounded good at the meetings. Really wasn’t a good idea. So now, they’re stuck with having to do the bad jobs, so now, their dad doesn’t do the bad jobs, their husband, but Uncle Sam.
Ann: Right.
Bill: That’s who they want to step in and protect them now.
[ Scattered applause ]
Peter: Wait, wait, wait. Do any of you know women individually or just generically? [ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
Richard: Ha-ha-ha, bravo!
Peter: This is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard.
Ann: No, the women I know support my point.
Peter: Well of course they’re letting you know. You should get out and get to know more women.
Bill: You don’t think women want government to take over a lot of the protecting jobs that men used to do, like Family Leave Act?
Peter: I think there are women that want that. And I think there are men that want that. This culture — especially now, now that those stereotypes have been broken down, and men and women are allowed to be more individualistic, there are people on both sides of that issue, so I think a lot of men want to be taken care of.
Ann: Well there are some, but women are really bad.
John: It’s really interesting to see how women’s voting changes over their life. When a woman gets married, about half the distance between men and women is eliminated in terms of how they vote differently. But when they get divorced and have kids on their own, they become much more liberal.
Richard: Can I ask a question? Are women allowed to run for office?
Ann: Yeah, I think that would still be okay.
[ Laughter ]
No, but seriously, all of politics is like a Gracie Allen/George Burns skit, with him coming home and saying, “Sorry, honey, we can’t pay for it.” And her, you know, running up the credit card. This is how women see government, which is why the problem with government is not paying for the poor, by the way, it’s all these middle-class entitlement, because it’s soccer moms who want, you know, education and arts and day care.
[ Scattered applause ]
And it’s the Republicans being dad, saying “We can’t refurnish the Department of Health and Human Services this year, honey.” We really aren’t capable of voting.
Has anyone ever hated themselves more than Ann Coulter?
Oh, and it was nice of Bill to let us know feminism won “the battle of the sexes.” Bravo.
-mouth hanging open-
Is there any other possible reaction to this other than WTF?
And there are women who are requesting cecarians and induced labor to avoid giving birth to Anticrist on 06/06/06. Why bother? It already happened.
[...] Well, Coulter sounded like a maniac but did manage to suggest it a few years ago, and as Echidne points out, now some Christian women actually suggest they be excluded from the voting populace so that they might be better Christians. Answering a blog questionnaire, homeschooling Christian mom of ten Carmon Friedrich offered this response: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do? Hoo-boy, this is where I get in trouble, and that starts with “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “pool.” I’d like to jump in a pool right now. Some may tell me to jump in a river for this one: I would remove women’s suffrage, and I might even consider making voting rights tied to property ownership. [...]
[...] Neither is fundamentalist Christianity, which I’ve been cramming down your throats for two-times-three years (double math points, yeehaw!). We ain’t got it in the Constitution yet, but the gay marriage bans around the country are starting to get us closer. And who knows, maybe we’ll get rid of that damn women’s suffrage so Eves can better serve their Adams. With their devotion to Islamic tradition, then, these new democracies have, in effect, peacefully voted themselves into the same doctrinal camp as the many terror groups that violently strike at the non-Muslim world in the name of jihad for the sake of a caliphate — a Muslim world government ruled according to Shariah. [...]