Krauthammer (taking a break from defending Obama):
"Trust me. You can't trust women. Any woman."
Posted on 09/17/2010 4:18:33 AM PDT by ejdrapes
By Charles Krauthammer Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea Partyer Christine O'Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Obama's social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda Bill Buckley -- no Mike Castle he -- had a rule: Support the most conservative candidate who is electable. A timeless rule of sober politics, and particularly timely now. This is no ordinary time. And this is no ordinary Democratic administration. It is highly ideological and ambitious. It is determined to use whatever historical window it is granted to change the country structurally, irreversibly. It has already done so with Obamacare and has equally lofty ambitions for energy, education, immigration, taxation, industrial policy and the composition of the Supreme Court. That's what makes the eleventh-hour endorsements of O'Donnell by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Sarah Palin so reckless and irresponsible. Of course Mike Castle is a liberal Republican. What do you expect from Delaware? A DeMint? Castle voted against Obamacare and the stimulus. Yes, he voted for cap-and-trade. That's batting .667. You'd rather have a Democrat who bats .000 and who might give the Democrats the 50th vote to control the Senate? Castle wasn't only electable. He was unbeatable. Why do you think Beau Biden, long groomed to inherit his father's seat, flinched from running? Because Castle, who had already won statewide races a dozen times, scared him off. Democrats had already given up on the race.The Buckley rule
Friday, September 17, 2010
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Krauthammer (taking a break from defending Obama):
"Trust me. You can't trust women. Any woman."
He voted to perpetuate a hoax. That is very disturbing.
Charles, you’re just pain wrong on this. Wrong.
Excellent observation. He is yet another example of the what I call the “Senior Prom Syndrome” — guys who couldn’t get a date for senior prom invariably become inveterate woman haters. As Wordsworth wrote in The Rainbow, “The child is the father of the man.
Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, and Barack Obama are other examples of the Senior Prom Syndrome.”
Just look where the Buckley Rule has gotten us. A place with no real option in elections. I like a clear choice between Communism and Freedom.
I thought his voting record was much worse.
I thought he voted for Obamacare. He was part of the democrat mix to impeach Bush.
I look to Castle to support Coons, then I think that will ice it.
I think even if O Connell loses, we win...as I see it.
THe republicans are as much to blame as the liberals.
A new broom sweeps clean...
Oh, one last comment. Krauthammer whom I enjoy listening to, is not a Palin fan by any stretch. If Christine happens to win, it will be interesting to see what he has to say.
For now, why not get behind her....and back her...?
LLS
He’s from Quebec.
What’s interesting is that the ‘moderate’ Republican types are in a tizzy over the likes of Palin, Bachmann, Angle, and O’Donnell—whereas the actual conservatives seem far more open to the women gaining prominence in their party. Methinks that just like the Dems, they realize that their tenuous hold on the electorate is based on linking small-government constitutionalists to anti-female Neanderthals. Once women voters, particularly, see through that false association, the RINO game will be up.
“You made it possible. Now make it happen. I would be happy to be proved wrong about O’Donnell’s electability — I want Republicans to win that 51st seat. Stay in Delaware and show us you were right. The beaches are said to be lovely in the fall. “
I agree with this last paragraph.
Can someone here give me a clear idea about Christine? With all the crap thrown at her, what is fact and fiction? Perhaps she was unelectable before because she was too conservative for the times.
This guy coons raised property taxes 25% in one year....
It’s going to come down to the issues....and she is in line with the issues.... all of them...
I can’t believe that Delawarians...are that stupid to vote for this guy Coons...
But on the other hand, Castle still holds the cards.... If he endorses her she wins, if he doesn’t she loses...
I guess that will tell us all how faithful he was to the party....
I can almost understand Kraut’s woman problem but he’s sounding a lot like Tokyo Rove.
Rove seems to have a woman issue too and I am thinking ugly thoughts............not that there’s anything wrong with being gay......
I’ve been saying he has a deep-seated problem with women for a long time now. Then I get freeper private emails telling me to be nice to him - after all, he’s in a wheelchair. What’s that about?
As Kraut and Rove should be reminded of this.
The Last time we worried about ""51"", we ended up with "the GANG OF 14". And that went really well!! /s
The way the establishment RINOs are going on about this, Mike Castle must be quite popular on the D.C. cocktail party circuit.
why does not this crazy psychiatrist go away. Kraut, Rove and so forth are nothing but a bunch of blowhards. Similar to Obozo the president. Spew a lot of hot air and nothing is really accomplished. Kinda like a fart!
They never were conservatives. It was just show business. Something for the Conservative bumpkins.
I’m sorry - but is you have an F rating from the NRA and voted for Cap & Trade, you have no business being in the GOP.
He has it backwards: a Castle ‘victory’ would be the pyrrhic victory, because liberal republicans guarantee we loose the war over policy.
That is the true meaning of a ‘pyrrhic’ victory - so costly as to be ruinous. Specter, Snowe, Collins, Voinavich (sp?)mean, even with 51 seats, we will loose on the global warming hoax, loose on socialized medicine, loose on tax cuts, loose on a strong national defense, loose on fiscal sanity, loose on limiting government, loose on reducing the debt, etc.
Our goal is not to take over the Senate, House, or Whitehouse. Our goal is to implement conservative policy, restore constitutional government, and protect our liberty. Republicans like Mike Castle undermine our efforts. That would make a Mike Castle ‘win’ pyrrhic for the country.
Henry Higgins on Eliza Doolittle: “Why can’t she be more like me?”
Charles Krauthammer on Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle: “Why can’t they be more like me?”
Often Charles is just too clever by half.
“...reckless and irresponsible”
No. Those words don’t work anymore. Why?
• ‘Reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ is what you have when voters permit the MSM to fabricate (out of thin air) a DNC candidate with NO redeeming characteristics let alone competence or experience... then proceed to perpetuate the fairy tale and elect him to the WH.
• ‘Reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ is what you have when elected officials, with abjectly criminal negligence and without even a cursory understanding of the most radical and unworkable legislation in American history, proceed to vote it into law
• ‘Reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ is what you have when a President of the most powerful national entity in the know universe coddles and indulges the enemies of his country while publicly compromising long-standing and vulnerable allies
• ‘Reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ is what you have when a President of the United States of America jeopardizes traditional safeguards to national security and territorial sovereignty by willfully and alarmingly playing off the entire population of undocumented and illegal residents in America against its hard-working, overly taxed and VERY tolerant citizens.
I could probably type this list all day long and never run out of examples of ‘reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ actions/statements made by our current ‘President’… but you know what I am getting at.
How can the old yardstick of responsible and careful behavior apply here when Americans disregarded it wholesale in order to get the least educated, least experienced, most immeasurably anti-American, bungling, unqualified and irresolute politician in our history into the Presidency???
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