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Jennings Rides Again: Kristol Warns Conservatives Against 'Temper Tantrum'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 02/04/2008 11:18:12 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkristol; gopcoup; johnmccain; mittromney; peterjennings
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To: Liz

Kristol was McCain’s advisor in previous election cycles...


81 posted on 02/04/2008 12:19:53 PM PST by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Ogie Oglethorpe
Giuliani may be out of the race, but he and his team simply switched horses to McCrazy......

The first sign that they were switching was when political prostitute I'll-Ride-Anything-To-Win-Lieberman galloped in to shadow McCain.

Lieberman is the horse-whipper---riding herd on McCain to make sure he stays in line and advances the Kristol crowd's agenda.

82 posted on 02/04/2008 12:20:55 PM PST by Liz (I spent $60 million and got one lousy delegate. Rudy Giuliani)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I think the author is ten years off with the Jennings quote.
83 posted on 02/04/2008 12:21:01 PM PST by isrul
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To: Republicus2001
I think the reason Big Media wants McCain in there is because it would be cake to portray McCain as a crusty mean old white man v. Obama/Clinton. He'd be crushed as demos get out the vote.

With Romney that strategy is off the table.


And this morning Lanny Davis told the Friends on Fox that the Dems are sooooooooooooo scared of McCain.
84 posted on 02/04/2008 12:22:24 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: TommyDale

Little Billy loves to play dress-up——pretending he’s conservative.


85 posted on 02/04/2008 12:24:16 PM PST by Liz (I spent $60 million and got one lousy delegate. Rudy Giuliani)
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To: Miss Didi

Well, that makes two of us because I’m scared of McCain, too. LOL


86 posted on 02/04/2008 12:24:32 PM PST by beandog (If exercise is so good for you, why does every bone in my body hurt)
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To: beandog

;)


87 posted on 02/04/2008 12:27:56 PM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Weasel. Low down, pompous jocksniffing neocon poof.
88 posted on 02/04/2008 12:28:33 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Liz

He was extremely pro-McCain in 1999 and 2000 before GWB kicked McCain to the curb. As I recall, that was when the McCain temper tantrum against the Religious Right occurred. Doesn’t anyone else remember this? Well, probably not the senile old McCain!


89 posted on 02/04/2008 12:29:44 PM PST by TommyDale (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Inspectorette

Fred, Mort or Bill Krystol........hard to know which one IS the liberal....they are all the same to me.


90 posted on 02/04/2008 12:33:15 PM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
He’s a rino... always has been and always will be.

LLS

91 posted on 02/04/2008 12:34:35 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote for?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nothing like reolutionaries trying to redifine the GOP as they have tried to do with conservatism.
Even I, frequently referred to as the "godfather" of all those neocons, have had my moments of wonderment. A few years ago I said (and, alas, wrote) that neoconservatism had had its own distinctive qualities in its early years, but by now had been absorbed into the mainstream of American conservatism. I was wrong, and the reason I was wrong is that, ever since its origin among disillusioned liberal intellectuals in the 1970s, what we call neoconservatism has been one of those intellectual undercurrents that surface only intermittently. It is not a "movement," as the conspiratorial critics would have it. Neoconservatism is what the late historian of Jacksonian America, Marvin Meyers, called a "persuasion," one that manifests itself over time, but erratically, and one whose meaning we clearly glimpse only in retrospect.

Viewed in this way, one can say that the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy. That this new conservative politics is distinctly American is beyond doubt. There is nothing like neoconservatism in Europe, and most European conservatives are highly skeptical of its legitimacy. The fact that conservatism in the United States is so much healthier than in Europe, so much more politically effective, surely has something to do with the existence of neoconservatism. But Europeans, who think it absurd to look to the United States for lessons in political innovation, resolutely refuse to consider this possibility.
Irving Kristol (Bill Kristol's father), The Neoconservative Persuasion, The Weekly Standard 08/25/2003, Volume 008, Issue 47
92 posted on 02/04/2008 12:39:28 PM PST by rmlew (Huckabee flip flops so much it makes Romney cringe)
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To: mrsmel

“The Clinton machine is not going to let that happen. As to whether McCain can defeat Obama—Obama may excite high ‘rat turn-out, but McCain will certainly suppress conservative turn-out—we may be a minority of Republican voters, but that minority may well be the margin of defeat if we don’t turn out to vote, or vote third party or write-in.”

I put the same stock in the “Clinton Machine” that I put in “Karl Rove = Boy Wonder” Hillary is a dangerous politician no doubt, but she’s hardly bullet proof, and Obama seems to have captured the far left and a lot of the left center.
IMO that leaves a lot of moderates on the table for McCain.


93 posted on 02/04/2008 12:39:31 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: Miss Didi
And this morning Lanny Davis told the Friends on Fox that the Dems are sooooooooooooo scared of McCain.

LOL - PLEASE don't throw me in that briar patch...

94 posted on 02/04/2008 12:39:48 PM PST by Ogie Oglethorpe (2nd Amendment - the reboot button on the U.S. Constitution)
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To: elizabetty
I will not vote for McCain in the primaries. But if he wins the GOP nomination I will vote for McCain over Hillary or Barack. Not even close.
95 posted on 02/04/2008 12:40:27 PM PST by Uncle Hal
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To: Inspectorette

“No way would he EVER vote for a Republican”

My grandparents and all their friends are just the opposite. Old school Dixiecrats, but they won’t vote for Obama or Hillary.


96 posted on 02/04/2008 12:41:45 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

How could Fox news pick up a guy George Stephanopolis fired?


97 posted on 02/04/2008 12:42:10 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: America-The-Great-1967

“Since moving to and retiring in Texas I have been surprised by the number of Former/Retired Military who are DINO’s(not RINO’s).”

LOL they’re really more anti-government than anything else. They distrust Big Business, but the hate the idea of a nanny state.


98 posted on 02/04/2008 12:43:02 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: elizabetty

Ann Coulter says she’ll vote for Hillary if Juan McCain is the nominee. I would crawl over broken glass to vote against Hillary but if it’s McCain/Obama I’ll just stay home. Heck, I might even vote for Obama.


99 posted on 02/04/2008 12:45:27 PM PST by no dems (Politcal Correctness is Fascism)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"But do conservatives have to have their knuckles rapped by one of their own, Bill Kristol?"

So Mark Finkelstein thinks Kristol is a conservative?

Then I can discount everything else he writes.

100 posted on 02/04/2008 12:46:47 PM PST by Designer
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