All in all, its a good end to the year. Trump sent them into the wilderness. The upside is he has a stronger Republican Party to work with for the next two years."
Beware of the Trump Curse!:
Posted on 12/16/2018 2:12:57 PM PST by Widget Jr
When it was announced on Friday that The Weekly Standard would print its last issue after nearly a quarter of a century, I was astonished. Who would ever have guessed that The American Conservative, the upstart anti-war magazine founded by Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell in 2002, would outlast Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes' neoconservative colossus? If you had asked me five years ago, I would have said it was about as likely as the star of Celebrity Apprentice winning the White House on a reactionary populist platform.
It's worth saying at the outset that I and millions of other Americans of all political tendencies disagreed with the editors of The Weekly Standard about the Iraq war. We were right and they were wrong. I will return later to this issue, which is more complicated than some critics of intervention have ever made it sound. But there are other points worth making first.
The most obvious one is that the Standard was, for more than two decades, the best right-of-center periodical published in the United States. This was true for the very simple reason that it hired the best writers and let them write about the topics that interested them...
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Weakly Substandard. Little did we know the enemy was within the gates.
Nothing.
They opposed every conservative achievement of Trump. That says it all.
Bye!
Basically the three cited important writers at The Weekly Standard were first discovered by The American Spectator and then got hired away. What sort of accomplishment is that? Also, I don’t think the writers mentioned are the paragons of reporting, literary achievement and analysis the author claims them to be. They impressed only the world of neocons. They are rigidly narrow-minded and treated other conservatives as pariahs. No one could sneer with more gusto than Bill Kristol. His opinion of himself was far out of line with his ability to think and write cogently on any topic. It is a well-deserved demise for a pretentious magazine.
Kristol Meth
Whenever I read a quote from Bill Kristol, I get a bowel movement. This one is a real double plunger doozie.
Comment of the Day.
The left loves dead Republicans. They also love dead “Republican” publications.
If it was great; it would still be around
Nobody will miss the WS. Who cares?
Never Trumperism, RIP.
What’s gonna happen to next year’s annual Fredocon cruise?
They did everything they could to alienate conservatives. It worked!
I don’t know that it made them great but I’m glad I don’t have to look forward to their anti-Trump diatribes anymore.
Kristol and Hayes took their magazine and ran it into the ground. Good riddance.
Will there even be one? Music to my ears to see our enemies unemployed.
I remember when it was worth reading. About 20 years ago.
So what happens now to the annual Weekly Standard Cruise with all of its enlightened No-Trump advocates? There is the shark-infested waters and there is a board to use as a gangplank ... any suggestions?
The Fredocons are a miserable failure. No one wants them.
There is no market for political ideas that people aren’t willing to buy.
Much less than for which they will cast their votes.
All in all, its a good end to the year. Trump sent them into the wilderness. The upside is he has a stronger Republican Party to work with for the next two years."
Beware of the Trump Curse!:
“Quarter Century” is 25 years.
I’ve lived twice that.
What a total failure on every level.
nearly. LOL!!!
My only question is where does Kristol buy his hosiery?
The Weakly Substandard was never great
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