Posted on 12/29/2007 7:39:59 PM PST by ellery
The editors of National Review take aim at the editors of the New Hampshire Union Leader.
This seems to be another useful time to remind folks that the senior editors endorsed Romney, and that I wasn't one of those senior editors, I have no particular interest or intent of arguing with the senior editors on behalf of readers who think it is the wrong choice, and that griping to me about it just pretty much makes me cranky.
I see Mitt Romney is getting flak for this statement:
CURRY: Most analysts would say, governor, that the events of yesterday will help your chief opponents Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Are you concerned, are you worried that your impact, that your campaign will be impacted negatively?
ROMNEY: Oh, I think we have to put the events of the world at a higher level than thinking about local politics. But I do believe as well that people recognize that what we want in a leader is a person who can actually guide America in a very challenging time. You look back to the — one of the great foreign policy leaders of our nation was Ronald Reagan. He was a governor, not a so-called foreign policy expert. He was a person who knew how to make difficult decisions and how to lead in times of crisis. And I think if you look at my life's experience you'll recognize that's what I bring to the table.
Romney deserves the grief he'll get, as a very strong case can be made that Reagan was indeed a "so-called foreign policy expert" by 1976, never mind 1980.
You didn’t give me any credit for telling you that.
Jeane Kirkpatrick has been one of my heroes for almost 30 years, you think that you told me about her and my beloved Reagan administration?
You thought that she had no official status in the Reagan administration and that she was a little known to the public, unofficial adviser to him. I was trying in a friendly manner to correct you without insulting you.
I was so excited by her and Reagan, and their activities during her time in his administration that I went back into the military, and you think that you are filling me in on her?
I try but I just do not understand you or how your brain works.
One of the things that make a great president is the quality of his advisors.
Why didn’t you post the info on Jeane Kirkpatrrick, before I sent you the email about her?
It is common courtesy to give credit where credit is due.
“I found out that Reagan got a ton of foreign policy advice from Jeanne Kirkpatrick...(spelling may be wrong). This is not well known. She was not technically signed on as an advisor. “
I was stunned when you sent something that made you seem so uninformed to my freepmail.
I got back on the forum and posted some information about Kirkpatrick as a way to correct you with out making you feel like an idiot.
You just discover Jeane Kirkpatrick and you want credit for bringing it to my attention? Feel free to take all the credit you want for not knowing seemingly anything about politics or recent history and that includes thinking that Kissinger was in the Reagan cabinet and that Kirkpatrick wasn’t and that none of us had heard of her.
LOL, I think that you deserve lots of recognition for your knowledge of seemingly nothing.
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