Hmmmm... in all the fuss about the Edwards/Coulter/Matthews imbroglio, I haven't seen a post on this.
According to Howard Kurtz in Tuesday's Washington Post, Anne Coulter referred to George W. Bush as a "nincompoop" on "Good Morning America."
Here's what she said, according to Kurtz: "We're all just waiting for this nincompoop to be gone. I think we're all finally on the same page on that."
Apparently host Chris Cuomo didn't follow up. More Below.
Here's Kurtz's lead:
Give me a moment to catch my breath. I just heard Ann Coulter say something remarkable.
It wasn't one of her patented attacks on liberals and other heathens. It was a casually tossed-off line about the president of the United States:
It's quite a line: "We're all just waiting for this nincompoop to be gone. I think we're all finally on the same page on that."
Did I blink and miss something? Is Bush now toast with the entire conservative movement? Unfortunately, Chris Cuomo didn't follow up during the "Good Morning America" interview. Coulter did praise Bush's handling of the war, but opined that "his domestic policy has been an embarrassment."
Still . . . nincompooop? I know the right is mighty ticked off over Bush's immigration bill ... but has he been totally written off? Isn't Coulter a pretty good leading indicator? And if that's the case, are people like Ann admitting that liberals were right about W. and she was wrong? If "we're finally all on the same page," didn't it take a helluva long time for her to get there? I sure would have liked to hear her elaborate.
If the Coulter's of the world are turning on Dubya, Broder can't be far behind. So much for Broder's "Bush bounce"