Posted on 05/30/2016 7:12:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
All in attendance for a dinner meeting with president Obama before he took office. The post-meeting/dinner report in The New Yorker Magazine holds the following quotes told by the glowing participants of their time with President Obama:
Richard Lowry:“the only presidential candidate from either party about whom there is a palpable excitement”.
Charles Krauthammer: “Obama would be a president with the political intelligence of a Bill Clinton harnessed to the steely self-discipline of a Vladimir Putin”, who would “bestride the political stage as largely as did Reagan.”
Bill Kristol:“I look forward to Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.”
Larry Kudlow: “[Obama] loves to deal with both sides of the issue.” “He revels in the back and forth. And he wants to keep the dialogue going with conservatives.”
Indeed, it sounds like a joyful political love-fest amid the smitten beltway punditry in 2009.
So is it really a surprise to read or hear their current, and collective, opinion of the horribly unwashed pro-America vulgarian Trump?
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
What a bunch of gullible fools. A few learned better. A few are just as much of a fool today. If only this crowd regarded Obama’s dangerous terms as seriously as they perceive Trump.
palpable excitement = National Review’s way of saying “tingle”
Krauthammer,
Kristol
And
Krudlow.
I want to remember these leg humpers.
UNIPARTY propagandists at best. More likely, deceptive scum.
More:
“Let’s review. Starting with the pundit who coined the term “vulgarian”, George Will:
George Will 2015: “Donald Trump Supporters Need To Come Into The Republican Party On Our Terms, Not Theirs” (link with video)
Rich Lowry 2015: “Look Trump attacks everyone but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here is that last debate. Let’s be honest, Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon“. (link with video)
Charles Krauthammer 2015: …”[…] And the pity is this: this is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years. You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest cabinet America has had in our lifetime, and instead, all of our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.” (link)
Bill Kristol 2015: […] “I doubt I’d support Donald. I doubt I’d support the Democrat. I think I’d support getting someone good on the ballot as a third party candidate.” (link)”
” I have no doubts, however, about Mr. Kristol’s goals in continuing his #nevertrump machinations. Those machinations are rooted in the same ideology that undermined the conservative movement for more than thirty years and led to the rise of Mr. Trump. They are riddled with self-interest and hostility toward a genuine conservatism that is sadly out of favor in Washington since the second Reagan Administration.
“They bespeak a movement that is not dying, but dead. Traditional conservatism is a political philosophy that will endure, if only in the minds of a minority of thinking persons and in the lives of those able to scrape out a meaningful existence in the interstices of a re-paganized culture.
“But the conservative movement was a coalition of convenience destroyed by political operatives more concerned with their own positions than with the preservation of the American way of life. These operatives brought us Mitt Romney, John McCain, and a host of establishment conservatives willing to tolerate the “hawks” of neoconservatism but not a genuine conservatism tied to a renewal of culture and return to constitutional government.
” These operatives tolerated and even sponsored neoconservatives because they saw them as convenient allies in preserving an ever-expanding national state that would protect the interests of large businesses while opposing only the most extreme forms of progressivism that are rotting our cultural core.”
What a bunch of jerks. This is indeed a nice find. I remember now when all these guys were saying that Obama was the smartest guy on the planet.
A bunch of obama ass kissers. Not surprising.
I hereby deem kristol a certified “ BECK KOOK”!!
A good read.
They are a real disappointment. I used to have some respect for some of them. I was not aware of how supportive they were of Obama.
And they expect that we should listen to them now?!
So they are phoney political right wing. Actually there is no real political right wing in Washington, all it has is a uniparty, a predatory bird with two wings.
Oh, how did that work out for Carly, BTW, Rich?
Did the marks from Trump's baby Harp seal club heal up yet? :)
Also remember how they went into the tank with both Romney and McCain. The one commonality is they both are open border advocates.
The wizards of smart, for those of you in Rio Linda.
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