Posted on 10/21/2004 9:50:05 AM PDT by Broker
Kerry’s the One
By Scott McConnell
There is little in John Kerry’s persona or platform that appeals to conservatives. The flip-flopper charge—the centerpiece of the Republican campaign against Kerry—seems overdone, as Kerry’s contrasting votes are the sort of baggage any senator of long service is likely to pick up. (Bob Dole could tell you all about it.) But Kerry is plainly a conventional liberal and no candidate for a future edition of Profiles in Courage. In my view, he will always deserve censure for his vote in favor of the Iraq War in 2002.
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This won't help increase circulation. Who would want to read this piece of tripe? American Conservative will fold as soon as the donors get tired of losing money.
Just like Salon.
It is just gas rising from decaying paleocons. It will pass.
Yet another stab in the back from Pat Buchanan.
We may not be here after 4 years of Kerry.
Buchanan/Robertson 2008!
Duplicate from yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251716/posts
...in a "triple flutterblast".
Why half-step? Dean/McCain 2008!
Here is the articles enlightened conclusion:
"George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism. His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief that foreign peoples are eager to be liberated by American armies—a notion more grounded in Leon Trotsky’s concept of global revolution than any sort of conservative statecraft. His immigration policies—temporarily put on hold while he runs for re-election—are just as extreme. A re-elected President Bush would be committed to bringing in millions of low-wage immigrants to do jobs Americans “won’t do.” This election is all about George W. Bush, and those issues are enough to render him unworthy of any conservative support."
Nope.
Judges, judges, judges.
Conservatives would be written off forever.
What a crock of cow dung. This will hasten
the magazines demise. Good riddance.
What garbage ... some idiot conservatives said that same nonsense in 1992 ... look where it got us! :-(
This is the same moronic thinking that said one four year dose of Clinton would "fix" us. Hey Scott you jerk, ask the Blackhawk down soldiers if that worked. I could go on but this is the choir I'm talking to here.
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Scott McConnell is the executive editor of The American Conservative.A Ph.D.in history from Columbia University, he was formerly the editorial page editor of the New York Post and has been a columnist for Antiwar.com and New York Press.His work has been published in Commentary, Fortune, National Review, The New Republic, and many other publications. |
This a$$hole needs to STFU.
That is the best add of the season!
This guy is an anti-war nutcake. John Kerry is his kind of Hero. He can have him. With conservatives like this we don't need liberals.
I am aghast at the idiot-isolationists who want to abandon the global war on terror.
"His international policies have been based on the hopelessly naïve belief ..." ... strawman - its not just about planting democracy, its about defeating terrorism COMPLETELY. Bush's policies have been based on the *correct* belief that tyranny is the natural enemy of freedom, that we must defeat global terrorism, and to do that we dont just have a 'law enforcement' strategy, we must go out there and eliminate those rogue regimes that support the terrorists. 2 down so far.
Bush has the right international policies for our time: GO OVER THERE AND DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS AND TYRANTS.
If head-in-sand isolationists dont get it, they need to go back and look at some scenes from 9/11 to get it through their thick skulls: We either fight them over THERE or we fight them over HERE.
Me, Genl Tommy Franks, and George Bush say OVER THERE.
We think freedom and democracy are universally desired by most people, and while it is no cakewalk to set it up in that part of the world, in the long run it will make us, and the world, safer if tyranny is replaced by freedom.
The alternative is leaving swamps where the terrorists can have safe havens. That's unacceptable.
What do you think?
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