[dervish]

He was a registered Democrat who supported JFK and Lyndon Johnson. He was a Jew who coverted to Catholicism and was pro-Palestinian. He was a sharp and hostile critic of the Iraq war. He was responsible for the Valerie Plame witch hunt. He supported Ron Paul in 2007. He was a Paleo Conservative of the Pat Buchanan mold.

RIP

[MaestroLC]

He was a registered Democrat who supported JFK and Lyndon Johnson. He was a Jew who coverted to Catholicism and was pro-Palestinian. He was a sharp and hostile critic of the Iraq war. He was responsible for the Valerie Plame witch hunt. He supported Ron Paul in 2007. He was a Paleo Conservative of the Pat Buchanan mold.

Your point being to spit in his face before he is even in the ground? How thoughtful of you.

[Jewbacca]

Yeah, he was repeatedly anti-Israel, and had the chutzpah to say “Hamas was not a terrorist organization.”

I am sorry for his family’s loss, but he was not a great asset to the conservative movement.

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Novak was a conservative, but also an independent thinker. Read his book.

He saw that Iraq wasn't going to be the cakewalk that the administration said it was going to be early on, so he opposed it. That doesn't make him a Buchananite or a paleocon.

Like I said at the time:

Novak, in contrast to Frum and many of the others in this controversy, is an adult with decades of experience of actual political life. Whatever one thinks of his positions, they ought to be taken seriously, not tossed into a pot with a variety of dreamers and dogmatists.