As for Krauthammer, he's an urbanite and an elitist and I stopped listening to him or reading his stuff when he went off the deep end, stark raving mad over Gibson's Passion. I have since found out that he joined forces to try to 1) elect McVain and 2) helped lead the intellectual argument that has resulted in an turning over some of the Balkans to the Islamists.
I don't know much about Michael Barone. Isn't he an investment writer? He and Dobson would get along, because Dobson is one of the shrewdest, most hardheaded businessmen I've ever seen.
I would like to point out that that day with those conservatives (at least Kraut calls himself that), there were no evangelicals to be found at Fox.
None to be found at Weekly Standard. None at National Review. No evangelical gets a fair shake in the publications, unless they own them, like Dobson. They're assumed to be beyond the pale.
And that's why they are defensive.
Michael Barone was the most accurate "numbers cruncher" in 2000 and 2004; on Election Day when it became apparent that the "numbers" we saw in the late afternoon were obviously crap (probably put out by the Kerry campaign), Fox threw the numbers away and Barone went to work with a team at the Fox studios in D.C.; he was the very first to call Ohio for Bush.
You're making a big mistake blowing off Krauthammer.