He sure sounds like one to me. Maybe you are just reacting because he had the temerity to question Senator Cruz' experience.
I’ve had the opportunity to observe Kraut over at least of couple of decades, in fact.
If you care, you can search back through my posts about him even before Cruz came on the scene. He is part of the quisling, loyal-but-not-too-vocal opposition in the DC circuit.
He sat for YEARS politely commenting on how we just had a legitimate disagreement with a legitimate President over bland policies....all the while legitimizing him as a real President. The very idea Obama would have the inkling of an idea of devolving and destroying this country was absurd to him.
He lives and thrives on DC, his ‘gigs’ on TV, his column and how he can best feather his nest. It has nothing to do with today and Cruz, frankly save the fact that his word on Cruz means absolutely nothing to me.
He’s got some conservative tendencies, but he’s a beltway lifer. He was on the left in our golden age...late 70s through the 80s. He’s right on a number of issues, but he’s tainted by the DC bubble, and definitely not a conservative through and through.
Charles Krauthammer was a Leninist/Stalinist type communist who supported Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale against Ronald Reagan. He just plays a faux moderate Trotskyite RINO on TV for disability income.
Trotsky favored the kinder, gentler path to global communism by creating socialist democracies country to country, which would then naturally morph into socialism, and then into full-blown communism. The RINOs of the Republican Party establishment are Trotskyite communists. They are all about building socialist democracies around the world.
You should get new ears then.
While he's undeniably brilliant and worth reading and considering what he says, it's imperative to actually look at his whole record and keep that in mind before blindly trusting him. I have to post the following every so often to remind people:
"Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." - Charles Krauthammer, "Disarm the Citizenry", The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19
He has never retracted nor disavowed this. He's an elitist, not one of us, and although his opinions can be useful, he is not a friend of freedom.