[ozzymandus]

Pat and sobran found they could get "respect" from the RAT media by pretending to be conservatives and trashing the GOP. They've both been disgusting opportunists for some time, but lately they've both reached the point of being unhinged. It's a shame, because I used to enjoy watching Pat shred the lefties on the talk shows, and sobran was an interesting writer when he wasn't blathering about how Shakespeare wasn't really Shakespeare

[the anti-mahdi]

Pat and sobran found they could get "respect" from the RAT media by pretending to be conservatives and trashing the GOP. They've both been disgusting opportunists for some time, but lately they've both reached the point of being unhinged.

Wish I had said this; well done. Pat is, despite his insistence otherwise, a common garden variety anti-semite if an anti-semite is labeled such for what they say over and over and over. It speaks to opportunism as well in currying face time in the media from the left wing media, also verifiably anti-semitic.

[romanesq]

Unfortunately Pat's viewpoint is solely focused on American isolationism and he'll whistle in the wind and cover his eyes until the battle is waged on our shores. Then he'll consider limited action.

He's old and cranky and not liable to want to take the battle to the enemy.
While he recognizes the enemy, he could easily write an article countering his isolanist position.

But we won't see it. Not until it's much too late. Then no one will care what he says. I know at this point I don't.

You either believe the battle must be taken to the enemy or you don't.
And Pat is now in the latter category with all the liberals, leftists, anarchists, Quakers and appeasers.

I wish him a happy retirement.

[Ebenezer]

As much as we regret it, our battles against terrorism have to be waged outside our borders as well, something that Pat and Joe choose not to accept. In addition, "Why do they hate us?" is such a weak, unprincipled response to terrorism. "Shoot now, ask questions later" is the only option.

Like many fellow FReepers, I used to admire Pat, and I thought his speech at the 1992 GOP convention was superb. Now I see a bitter hack blaming everything on Jews and the "amen corner in Washington" he scorns. Joe can still write some interesting columns provided they don't touch on politics, but his constant philosophizing on the nature of the state has practically turned into an excuse for his disdaining his country in the style of some Hollywood expatriate.