Conservative commentator Ann Coulter panned Marco Rubio’s 2016 bid in an appearance on “The Kelly File” Monday night, saying that the 2016 GOP nominee “has to be a governor.”
“So I’m just going to guess that Marco Rubio’s position on immigration is an issue for you,” Kelly told Coulter from the outset.
“Yeah, and, I mean, that’s the only thing he’s done. This is why I’m always telling conservatives stop talking about Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson and even Donald Trump, whose positions I really like,” Coulter said. “It has to be a governor. There’s a reason senators don’t make good candidates. And yes, Obama was only a senator and all he had going for him was he made a good speech, and look how well that worked out. I wouldn’t count on all of that media-generated love for Obama and the charisma carrying one of our guys through.”
“I was asked by Jeannine Pirro on Saturday night, and I was embarrassed about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer, there was a long stretch of silence. Name an accomplishment of Hillary Clinton, and, you know, one, two three, I’ve spent two days thinking about it; I still can’t come up with one,” Coulter continued. “Well, that’s because senators, at most, they’ve joined a majority of other senators to vote for a bill.”
“Governors have done things, and Scott Walker’s done a lot, for example, and I’m not necessarily saying I’m for him for president, but senators do not make good presidential candidates for the same reason someone like Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson doesn’t. They aren’t politicians. They haven’t gotten the votes. They haven’t done anything.”
“I think he’s running for a vice presidential slot,” Coulter added later on. “This can’t be serious.”
Though Coulter made the point about Rubio being a first term senator and seemingly dismissed him for that reason, she would not do the same for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has been in the Senate for two less years than Rubio. As Coulter acknowledged, it’s because Cruz “didn’t spend three years pushing amnesty.”
“I think you ought to be having a vice president who can perform the job that a vice president is supposed to do, and that’s step in and be president,” Coulter added. “And at least with Ted Cruz — he didn’t spend three years pushing amnesty.”
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