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In Case You Missed It: Mort Kondracke On Democrats' "Disastrous Week" And "Defeatist" Rhetoric
Fox News' "Special Report"...GOP...RNC ^ | December 09, 2005 | Mort Kondracke

Posted on 12/10/2005 6:42:01 PM PST by george76

I think this has been a disastrous week for the Democrats across the board.

When they're not incoherent, then they're defeatist....

And then we have John Kerry who's back in the picture. Made another speech today...

He comes up with this agenda, which sounds exactly like the Bush agenda...

He pretends as though Bush is doing nothing to foster democracy around the world, somehow, Jordan...Bahrain...Qatar...Egypt -- are moving toward democracy, he says, as if it's on their own.

And the Bush Administration has had nothing to do with pushing it.

(Excerpt) Read more at gop.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; bahrain; bush; bush43; defeatists; egypt; g76; gatar; iraq; johnkerry; kondracke; mortkondracke; qatar
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1 posted on 12/10/2005 6:42:02 PM PST by george76
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I can't really figure out Mort's political position--he strikes me as a moiderate democrat who isn't afraid to point out where Dems screw up.


2 posted on 12/10/2005 6:43:36 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (We need HRC for President like Michael Moore needs a Burger King franchise)
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Even Christine Matthews was toning down the rhetoric after Bush's speech last week... at least on the particular broadcast I was watching.


3 posted on 12/10/2005 6:44:39 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Darkwolf377

Mort is a hard one to figure. But I kinda like him. Most of the time.


4 posted on 12/10/2005 6:46:50 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: george76

http://www.gop.com/?&s=iraqvideo


5 posted on 12/10/2005 6:48:05 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Darkwolf377

Mort's okay--his positions are based on logic, not ideology. Even though he sometimes drifts (slightly) left, I can find no fault with him.


6 posted on 12/10/2005 6:48:15 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Darkwolf377

He's like a JFK democrat. JFK had some good ideas for the Country, from taxation to the Space program.

He acquitted himself very poorly in the Bay of Pigs crisis, to his everlasting shame. But good in the Missile crisis.

He also didn't pit blacks against whites, poor against rich, etc. Mort's kinda the same way, in my view.


7 posted on 12/10/2005 6:48:37 PM PST by AlbionGirl
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To: george76

Mort is a great American. A real role model for everyone, and especially for democrats who actually might fall into the far left trap that Dean and others are springing for them. Mort is a great patriot and someone who sees through the crap of the democrat party and is not afraid to say so.


8 posted on 12/10/2005 6:50:54 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey
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I agree. While Mort's heart may bleed from time to time, it bleeds honestly, not from an insane lust to tell other people what to do.


9 posted on 12/10/2005 6:50:56 PM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: Darkwolf377
Mort was a clintonoid through and through, a DLC guy, I believe, but apparently has enough personal integrity to stay reasonably honest and objective.
10 posted on 12/10/2005 6:51:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Darkwolf377
I can't really figure out Mort's political position--he strikes me as a moiderate democrat who isn't afraid to point out where Dems screw up.

Think a few years ago. . .Mort was or 'was considered' a Liberal. Think because the Dems have moved so far Left; that he now appears to be moderate. I also think he - unlike many Demrats - gives honest, rational thought to things.

Mort does the unthinkable by today's Demrat standards. . .he gives credit to Repubs and a Repub President. . .where credit is due; and offers thoughtful and honest discourse on issues. Seems to be, very much his own person. . .

11 posted on 12/10/2005 6:51:45 PM PST by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: rbg81

I just want to help him spit it out sometimes. He seems so at a lost for words when making his point.


12 posted on 12/10/2005 6:52:05 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

They relize thay have gone too far and can't find their way back. They're trapped by their own words and actions. Matthews knows it and so do the rest of the MSM.

You can beat up on a Palooka only until he starts hitting back.


13 posted on 12/10/2005 6:52:46 PM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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A rare (very rare) intelligent liberal comments on the past week....

I love the John Kerry panel, down to the fine print on his shirt!

14 posted on 12/10/2005 6:52:59 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: AlbionGirl
Mort seems honest to me. Whatever one's ideology, if you're honest I can respect you. Which is why I can never respect someone like Katrina Vanden Heuvel. She was bitching about Bush on TV once and the interviewer brought up how our presence in the Middle East was pushing other countries to reforms such as voting for women. Katrina was obviously caught off guard and she said there were such advances happening in Saudi Arabia before we invaded Iraq, and our invasion stymied them. It was such a painful, obvious lie that the interviewer, I think Matthews, said something like "Uh...."

Kondrake, on the other hand, has more than once admitted "I don't know", which these other twits would never do.

15 posted on 12/10/2005 6:53:40 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (We need HRC for President like Michael Moore needs a Burger King franchise)
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To: billhilly

When Matthews starts pulling back, you know you are in trouble!


16 posted on 12/10/2005 6:55:25 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: george76
Mort's only problem is that he can't succinctly summarize his points.  Brit usually has to cattle prod him to get a whole sentence out quickly unlike Krauthammer who can always deliver a sound bite in twenty words or ten seconds, whichever comes first. 
17 posted on 12/10/2005 6:57:48 PM PST by quantim (Detroit is the New Orleans of the north, settled by the French and ruined by liberals.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
I just want to help him spit it out sometimes. He seems so at a lost for words when making his point.

It's gotten much better as time has passed since his wifes death. Right before, and immeadiatly after her death he could hardly keep two words close togather. Obviously a very rough time for him.

18 posted on 12/10/2005 6:57:54 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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To: Darkwolf377

It is true that the arab women are now walking ahead of the men instead of behind them, as they did for centurys, but it is because of the land mines.


19 posted on 12/10/2005 6:59:08 PM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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To: Darkwolf377

Morton Kondrake is an old fashioned democrat. I remember liking him when I use to listed to John the screamer political talk show. Fred Barnes was also on it. Those two made sense. I was glad when Pat Buchannan was runnning for president because hewasn't on then. I've since given up on the show.


20 posted on 12/10/2005 6:59:15 PM PST by GreyFriar ((3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead))
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