As far as I know, Megyn Kelly has never run for office, never worked on a campaign, never managed a campaign, never volunteered for a campaign and yet, there she was after the election criticizing Republicans by calling them “cowards” as if she were proficient in the art of campaigns.
A quick look at her resume shows no great accomplishments, she has never had a hand in building a think tank or teaching a class or writing books or writing thoughtful opinion pieces either.
That’s it.
She is simply a war profiteer, making money off of conservatism while doing nothing to actually help the party or the movement. She talks for a living, looks like cheesecake for the cameras, but like so many talking heads, has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to the intricacies of Republican or conservative politics and campaigns. I don’t recall her doing anything to help the party except criticize.
And yet, there she was post-election, throwing her opinions around as if she were well-informed saying the GOP “needs to get its shit together” and how Republicans are chronic losers who like to be losers and that Republicans “are not good at winning.”
Ahem. The GOP controls the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, most of the governorships and most of the state legislatures. Republicans are also positioned to expand their power base as the GOP is winning on most issues, while the Democrat Party is a dying institution, standing only for violence, censorship and abortion -- but little else.
She apparently never studied Ronald Reagan (whom my wife and I both worked for) who won the presidency in two landslides or Bill Buckley (who was a friend of mine) who was the intellectual force of the movement to know about fighting and winning for a purpose. I have found no evidence she ever learned from Newt Gingrich, who led a revolution when Republicans won across the board in 1994.
A quick look at her resume shows no great accomplishments, she has never had a hand in building a think tank or teaching a class or writing books or writing thoughtful opinion pieces either.
That’s it.
She is simply a war profiteer, making money off of conservatism while doing nothing to actually help the party or the movement. She talks for a living, looks like cheesecake for the cameras, but like so many talking heads, has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to the intricacies of Republican or conservative politics and campaigns. I don’t recall her doing anything to help the party except criticize.
And yet, there she was post-election, throwing her opinions around as if she were well-informed saying the GOP “needs to get its shit together” and how Republicans are chronic losers who like to be losers and that Republicans “are not good at winning.”
Ahem. The GOP controls the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, most of the governorships and most of the state legislatures. Republicans are also positioned to expand their power base as the GOP is winning on most issues, while the Democrat Party is a dying institution, standing only for violence, censorship and abortion -- but little else.
She apparently never studied Ronald Reagan (whom my wife and I both worked for) who won the presidency in two landslides or Bill Buckley (who was a friend of mine) who was the intellectual force of the movement to know about fighting and winning for a purpose. I have found no evidence she ever learned from Newt Gingrich, who led a revolution when Republicans won across the board in 1994.
Does she know how deeply void the GOP was in 1974, post Richard Nixon’s resignation? The GOP controlled the governorship and legislature of only one state, Kansas. The Democrats controlled every other state. There were actually states in the South that had no Republicans in their legislatures. The GOP was at about 18 percent approval and the congress had 2-1 Democrat majorities. THE GOP was for all intents and purposes dead. If the GOP had been a stray cat, it would have been hauled off to the animal shelter and immediately euthanized.
Her conservative-carrying card may have been lost years ago though. When her own show debuted in 2017 on NBC, she broke her promise to avoid politics by interviewing then-nominee Donald Trump's sexual accusers. Her ratings plummeted. (She also made several embarrassing gaffes, such as asking one guest about her plastic surgery. Ouch!) Her "Today" show in the morning steadily dropped in viewership, and her Sunday show premiered with 6 million viewers but dropped by over half within little more than a month. She was accused of being a RINO, alienating her conservative audience with the goal of "broadening" her approach to the news. It obviously did not work.
Kelly claims she is an independent, saying she has voted for both Republicans and Democrats. Yet, in November 2024, right before the presidential election which saw Donald Trump win both the popular and electoral vote, she used dog whistles and buzzwords comparing Republicans to demons. She said, "I'm nobody's bitch" and she would not "not sell my soul" to the GOP. She claimed she supported Trump 2.0's campaign but then in the same breath said she wouldn't agree with everything he said. She has been on record criticizing the GOP's stance on abortion, calling it "extreme" that would lose voters. If the call to stop the murder of innocent children is considered extreme, I'd hate to see what she thinks is "normal."
She also recently brushed off an attempt to resist antisemitism in the party, which Tucker Carlson has somehow evilly introduced into our American conservatism. I can’t frankly think of anything more important than fending off hatred, especially since antisemitism has always been and still is a part of the left.
In one of the few things of which she is consistent, she admits that she should not be considered a Republican. In 2022, she outright admitted she was not a conservative. "Every article that quotes me [as] ‘conservative podcaster, Megyn Kelly,’ …I’m not a conservative, I’m not even a Republican."
There you have it.
Deservedly, she has her fair share of critics, including conservative heavyweight and intellectual Mark Levin. In 2016, Levin called her "out of control." "“She is auditioning, in my opinion, for a bigger forum. That’s not exactly a state secret," he said. (And a year later, she would be on her own show separate from Fox. Fortuitous.) In the 2016 debate, Kelly only asked Trump about his treatment of women in the past, and almost never about his policies. It was a pure show of what was not important in a supposedly fair and neutral setting.
As the liberal media, liberal politicians and out and out communists have declared war on us, the true conservative, Republicans should have a unified front.
I once had dinner with Senator Gene McCarthy, one of the funniest and most principled men I’ve ever met. He described a fair-weather colleague as the type of person who, in a war, would go out onto the battlefield and shoot their own wounded. Megyn Kelly is the same type of person.
Principles? Never heard of them.
Scio me nescire. Stultus stulta.
Historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley is the author of Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All; Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America; December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World; Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan; Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980; Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative; Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother; April 1945: The Hinge of History, as well as many articles and essays on politics and the conservative movement.
Craig Shirley worked on many campaigns before transitioning to being a historian having written eleven books of presidential history.
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