Posted on 11/01/2008 4:34:54 PM PDT by neverdem
Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wobbliest one-world instincts is not a close call.
But it's all about economics and kitchen-table issues, we are told.
OK. Start with economics.
Neither candidate has particularly deep economic knowledge or finely honed economic instincts. Neither has any clear idea exactly what to do in the current financial meltdown. Hell, neither does anyone else, including the best economic minds in the world, from Henry Paulson to the head of the European Central Bank. Yet they have muddled through with some success.
Both Mr. McCain and Barack Obama have assembled fine economic teams that may differ on the details of their plans but have reasonable approaches to managing the crisis. So forget the hype. Neither candidate has an advantage on this issue.
On other domestic issues, Mr. McCain is just the kind of moderate conservative that the Washington/media establishment once loved -- the champion of myriad conservative heresies that made him a burr in the side of congressional Republicans and George W. Bush. But now that he is standing in the way of an audacity-of-hope Democratic restoration, erstwhile friends recoil from Mr. McCain on the pretense that he has suddenly become right wing.
Self-serving rubbish. Mr. McCain is who he always was. Generally speaking, he sees government as a Rooseveltian counterweight (Teddy with a touch of Franklin) to the various malefactors of wealth and power. He wants government to tackle large looming liabilities such as Social Security and Medicare. He wants to free up health insurance by beginning to sever its debilitating connection to employment -- a ruinous accident of history...
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LOL
Mr. Krauthmammer why would you of alllll people be claiming regrets to a leftward movement by 'center-right America? You were not fond of or thrilled with the right ever? I think you just met yourself on the backside.
Is bullsh!t. It doesn't exist. It was a made up crisis of epic proportions.
We were betrayed. Too many soft people ‘on our side’ and also a good number of phonies and infiltrators too.
I read comments ranting about him and other Washington Post 'conservative' columnists not long ago at WaPo. You'd think they were discussing Rush Limbaugh.
Yes these radical leftist, consider the 'tag along to get along' moderate elitists who perch themselves above everyone else attempting to set conservative parameters, right wingers. Krauthammer's reaction to Sarah as VP selection was revolting.
I don't think many conservative believe we got the government we wanted when we sent Republicans to Congress in 2004. We thought we were sending conservatives to Congress, nut got pseudo-conservatives interested in feathering their own nests.
If it wasn't for this Republican Congress of 2004, Obama would never be in the position he is.
As a nation, we have the government we want.
“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.”
I’ve been sour on Krauthammer since he was a Reagan-bashing speech writer for Walter Mondale.
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