For those who missed it, the following exchange between former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the cackling horde that comprises the cast of The View was a thing to behold. 

During her appearance on Tuesday, Rice held her own as she was assailed doggedly to cede that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election and that Russia interfered with that ultimate outcome. Newsbusters provides a partial transcript and video: 

RICE: Look at where relations are with the Russians. Again, I think we ought to be looking into what ties were there, that makes perfectly good sense. But I also want to say something about Vladimir Putin and interfering in our elections. He has been trying to interfere in your election and everybody else’s for a very long time. What cyber allows him to do is to do it more efficiently and more quickly. Let's not deceive ourselves that the Russians haven't tried these tricks before. They have. Now, I would have said -- I would have said to the Russians, ‘we know you did it. At the time of our choosing, we will find a way to punish that behavior.’ But Vladimir Putin is an eye for an eye kind of person, and we questioned -- Secretary Clinton questioned the legitimacy of his election in 2012. Now he's saying, I'm going to question the legitimacy of your election by hacking into it and so forth.

Rice went on to scold the left for giving Putin the "satisfaction" of thinking he swayed our electoral process:

Host Haines then asked if Putin sought revenge against Clinton: 

RICE: I think it was personal. He likes to intimidate. Now, I can tell you that I was with him on many occasions and one particular occasion we went into a room to discuss and his people are sitting on one sofa. He and his foreign minister. And I'm sitting on the other. And I'm delivering a message about U.S./Russian relations and they were messing around in Georgia at the time and I said, you know, Mr. President, if you do anything in Georgia, President Bush wants you to know that that would greatly affect our relationship. And he stood up and now he's peering over me. And so just on instinct, I stood up too. Now, I'm five foot -- 

WHOOPI: He didn't realize who he was peering over. 

RICE: I'm 5'10" in heels. He's not. So you can't be intimidated by Putin or let him play these psychological games. 

Host Sunny Hostin tried to get back to the Russian hacking question again, asking bluntly:

HOSTIN: But Madam Secretary, if he indeed did engage in these types of tactics in our election, then the very legitimacy of our election is at issue, isn't it? 

RICE: No, no. That's where I -- first of all, I don't want to question his motives beyond he's an eye for an eye kind of person. Secondly, I trust the people who voted in Wisconsin and Texas and Alabama and California to have voted on the basis of who they thought was best going to represent their interests. And so I'm not going to question the legitimacy of their vote because Vladimir Putin tried to interfere in the elections. That's just a step that I don’t think we should take. Let’s trust our fellow citizens to have been smart enough to have voted for the people they thought they ought to be voting for. 

Members of the Left really shouldn't be taxing themselves trying to debate someone who can and did run rings around them. Alas, such is the indefatigable ignorance of The View.