Or as the later generation called it...'a political & intellectual movement for hippies that finally grew up'.
Posted on 09/18/2009 1:13:45 PM PDT by EveningStar
Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been "mugged by reality," died Friday at the Capital Hospice in Arlington.
He spent much of his career in New York but had for the last two decades lived at the Watergate apartments in the District. He died of complications from lung cancer, said his son, William Kristol, the founder and editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine.
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Why, I think there’s a little tear streaming down my cheek...
No tears for a happy man.
>>which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been “mugged by reality,”
Shouldn’t that read “a political and intellectual movement for liberals to go underground and infiltrate real conservatism”?
God Bless him. But whatever was Neo it was hardly conservative.
As Mark Levin says “when libs say Neocon they really mean The Jews”
The neocons have done a fine job of coopting conservatism, and bending anyone who might have conservative leanings to their point of view.
If only the beast he helped create would die with him.
Was this man Bill Kristol’s father? Not the Harry Met Sally Billy Kristol; the Neo-Con in Washington, DC.
And is Bill Kristol’s mother’s name Gertrude Himmelfarb?
Yes! You nailed it! Vote Ron Paul!
Yes and yes.
Or as the later generation called it...'a political & intellectual movement for hippies that finally grew up'.
God bless and Godspeed, Sir!
His wit, intellect, and revolutionary anti-communist/leftist ideas left the liberals’ brains burnt out and jaws lying on the floor.
It looks like the Ron Paul freaks have invaded the thread. :(
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Irving Kristol was a great intellectual , his move to exposing Marxism and on world affairs.
His wife Gertrude Himmelfarb, another great mind.
Have three of her books.
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My condolences to Bill Kristol. The good news is that his father lived a full and extremely productive life. That “been mugged by reality” line by Kristol, is one of the best ever.
RIP Mr. Kristol
RIP
one of the fathers of the Reagan Revolution
Correct.
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