Jennings Rides Again: Kristol Warns Conservatives Against 'Temper Tantrum'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The voters had a temper tantrum last week . . . Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old. -- Peter Jennings, November 14, 2004, commenting on the Republican landslide.

[C]onservatives . . . can choose to stand aside from history while having a temper tantrum. But they should consider that the American people might then choose not to invite them back into a position of responsibility for quite a while to come. -- William Kristol, February 4, 2008, on conservative aversion to McCain.

It's one thing to be bawled out by the late Peter Jennings. But do conservatives have to have their knuckles rapped by one of their own, Bill Kristol? Apparently yes, as per the Weekly Standard editor's New York Times column of today, Dyspepsia on the Right.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[JaneNC]

Sell out

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Shades of Peter Jennings ping to Today show list.

[libbylu]

All the FNC guys have gone way left, I don’t listen to them any more.

[neodad]

Drinking too much of the NYT cool-aide.

[elizabetty]

John McCain does not represent my values.

I cannot vote for him.

[TruthConquers]

Sellout RINO!!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

Hey Krisol, KMA...

[zerosix]

"It's one thing to be bawled out by the late Peter Jennings. But do conservatives have to have their knuckles rapped by one of their own, Bill Kristol?"

Nope, and that's exactly why I fired the "Weekly Standard" right after getting a couple of issues.

They don't write for conservatives, only the "inside the beltway" crowd or RINOs.

[mrsmel]

I stopped app two years ago. I could sense the change even then.

[bmwcyle]

Kristol is a liberal RINO.

[Kozak]

I’ll pass. I want responsibility for the coming debacle to be very clear.

[DoughtyOne]

When it comes to the Reagan Revolution, I was there leading the way... well, I was a foot soldier.

I think we should make those tax cuts "WE" gave you permanent.

We need to find a compassionate way to give illegals who are here a pathway to citizenship.

I have pushed through legislation that makes exercise of the First Amendment more reasoned with regard to elections.

I joined with the gang of fourteen to do something better than what the president had in mind, with regard to judicial appointments.

Enough was enough.  It was time to put the issue of MIAs to rest, recognize North Vietnam and facilitate trade.

I didn't think helping the Sandanistas was a good thing.  I fought it tooth and nail but by gosh, a nation was freed over my objections.

I was a member of the Keeting Five.  It was no big deal.  A lot of money was passed around and people lost their life savings.  It happens.

Have the actions of this man, earned your vote?

[Eyes Unclouded]

Don’t blame Mr. Kristol he’s just making money. True conservatism is actually in a minority not only in the country but within the GOP. W and Reagen won by reaching out to nonconservative elements and getting them to go along for the ride. Don’t be mad that we aren’t calling the shots this time around... sit and think... then read... then be mad that we haven’t really called the shots EVER. Contract with America? “Read my lips”? Medicare expansion? People here joke about blacks being stuck with the democratic party maybe we should look in the mirror.

[Hattie]

Why are all these guys so worried we may not fall into their line and so what they say?

[mrsmel]

They need to save their self-righteous faux-indignant rhetoric for the perpetually offended and outraged left.

[mrsmel]

That’s exactly what I’ve said. We can’t laugh at blacks for being on the ‘rat plantation then turn around and do the exact same thing.

[libbylu]

It has taken me a little longer. FNC has become MSM.

[nhoward14]

P.S. Peter Jennings said that in 1994, not 2004.

[Hacklehead]

Kristol is only a conservative if you consider George Pataki a conservative. I’m sick of being chirped at by Parakeet males (as Ann Coulter calls them). These people have no passion. They just drift along with the breeze and try to get along by caving in to leftists.