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Charles Krauthammer: Center-right America is bound to regret its leftward move
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ^ | November 01, 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 11/01/2008 4:34:54 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 11/01/2008 4:34:54 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

ping


2 posted on 11/01/2008 4:39:59 PM PDT by Misschuck
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To: neverdem

Pretty good column, fair assessment of the situation.


3 posted on 11/01/2008 4:40:24 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Obamanomics: That'll leave some Marx.)
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To: neverdem

Great thread. Thanks for posting. We always enjoy Krauthammer’s on-target columns!

— Jane


4 posted on 11/01/2008 4:41:09 PM PDT by quintr
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To: neverdem

In an Obama administration, Krauthammer would pay DEARLY for writing this.


5 posted on 11/01/2008 4:50:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: neverdem

“This is not socialism. This is not the end of the world. It would, however, be a decidedly leftward move on the order of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The alternative is a McCain administration with a moderate conservative presiding over a divided government and generally inclined to resist a European social-democratic model of economic and social regulation featuring, for example, wealth-distributing growth-killing marginal tax rates.”

Not socialism? Too close for comfort, Charles. I want my world back.


6 posted on 11/01/2008 4:51:24 PM PDT by sageb1 (Feminism is dead. Long live Palinism!)
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To: neverdem

One thing is clear. John McCain better not assume he has a mandate to do as he wishes once he’s in the white house. He’ll find out in a big hurry that conservatives are still angry and have long memories.

Personally I think the GOP is just as responsible for the rise of the far left as the democrats are. The GOP has provided no anchor in conservative thought in recent years.


7 posted on 11/01/2008 4:55:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: Lazamataz
In an Obama administration, Krauthammer would pay DEARLY for writing this.

Agreed. Obama's disgusting associates make it clear that he is not committed to the sort of constitutional democracy we cherish in this country. He will abuse every power to the breaking point.

This may soon be a very dangerous country in which to speak your mind....

8 posted on 11/01/2008 4:59:29 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: cripplecreek

It took Joe the Plummer to get campaign dialogue about the differences between the idealogical beliefs of the left and the right. With the leftists dissasembling with warm and fuzzy euphemisms such as “progressive,”
“social and economic justice,” fairness and equality, the public fails to see the donkey for what it is. Too often, Conservatives tend to get high centered on guns and God and forget Reagan small government.


9 posted on 11/01/2008 5:03:39 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: neverdem

Final paragraph:

“Mr. McCain is the quintessential center-right candidate. Yet the quintessential center-right country is poised to reject him. The hunger for anti-Republican catharsis and the blinding promise of Obamian hope are simply too strong. The reckoning comes in the morning.”

Too strong? I love CK, but he has been a defeatist for weeks now. Despite some glowing pro-McCain columns in the past week or two, he has seemed curiously resigned to M/P going down to defeat.

Conservatives respect his opinion, but he has been demoralizing and he should know better. Write honestly, but some opinions should be witheld, because they only help the enemy and become self-fulfilling.


10 posted on 11/01/2008 5:03:42 PM PDT by StatenIsland (The '08 Election: It's about the survival of our country, not making a point...)
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To: Mad_as_heck

“This may soon be a very dangerous country in which to speak your mind....”

When Obama’s personal “Civilian Security Forces” get a hold of you, you may not have a mind to speak. - By the way, isn’t the “National Guard” already a civilian security force, or does he REALLY need a personal “enforcemant squad” loyal to him which he can insist are really a “well-armed militia” Constitutionally when he seizes weapons from the “stupid” peasants? Our military may not do his bidding if it comes to abusing our own citizens for displeasing the “Master in his own mind”?


11 posted on 11/01/2008 5:11:20 PM PDT by Twinkie (PRESERVE OUR CONSTITUTION !!!)
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To: neverdem

Hey Charles, you went ‘wobbly’ on this election a couple months ago, at a time we really didn’t need that. Good to see you’re back in the fold, but your ‘wobble’ was really bad timing.


12 posted on 11/01/2008 5:11:26 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: Lazamataz

Aren’t we thankful he won’t have to.


13 posted on 11/01/2008 5:13:13 PM PDT by Guenevere (I CHOOSE JOHN McCAIN BECAUSE HE CHOSE ......LIFE!)
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To: neverdem
Large men will come to your house at night and ask you to sign a card supporting a union. You will sign.

Over their dead body, not mine.

14 posted on 11/01/2008 5:24:21 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Lazamataz
In an Obama administration, Krauthammer would pay DEARLY for writing this.

Yes, the new "Civilian Security Force" would be pounding on his door as we speak.

15 posted on 11/01/2008 5:25:04 PM PDT by JimSEA (just another liberal-bashing fearmonger)
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To: cripplecreek
Personally I think the GOP is just as responsible for the rise of the far left as the democrats are. The GOP has provided no anchor in conservative thought in recent years.

Conservatives are us. We have the government we want. Government reflects the people. Don't like it? Then we have to create more true conservtives. The problem is the MSM, schools and liberal churches. We're all conditioned to expect government to take care of us.

16 posted on 11/01/2008 5:30:13 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

I voted for Duncan Hunter in the primary.


17 posted on 11/01/2008 5:34:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: cripplecreek

OK. I was a Thompson supporter. What does this have to do with anything now?


18 posted on 11/01/2008 5:35:49 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: StatenIsland; raptor29
Conservatives respect his opinion, but he has been demoralizing and he should know better. Write honestly, but some opinions should be witheld, because they only help the enemy and become self-fulfilling.

We've had a bunch of so called conservative pundits that turned me off with dumb comments about Palin when she has more executive experience than Obama, Biden or McCain. I've been sour on Krauthammer and George Will since I learned they don't like the Second Amendment. Now David Brooks, Kathleen Parker & Peggy Noonan can join them.

They better have pretty good titles now to catch my attention. I no longer bother to look for their columns. Dumb comments are uncalled for in opinion pieces. I felt betrayed.

19 posted on 11/01/2008 5:36:51 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Nothing apparently.


20 posted on 11/01/2008 5:37:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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