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How Bill Kristol Closed the Conservative Mind
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ^
| 12/18/2018
| Jack Hunter
Posted on 12/18/2018 10:32:49 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
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Don't celebrate. These commies ruined the GOP (& FR) a decade ago. They won.
Enjoy sending your children to die in Somalia/Syria, etc.
To: Forgotten Amendments
I had Kristol and his sycophants pegged as a bunch of globalist war merchants years ago. Took a lot of sh!t here for it, but I was always measured and reasonable in my remarks (usually, LOL).
It's a shame so many good Freepers were banished or self-exiled over the years over it, but I must say it's a great year when John McCain, GHWB and the Weekly Standard all meet their demise.
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:37:38 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
The most high-profile conservative proponents of a more restrained foreign policy over the last two decadesPat Buchanan, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul
OK, so where are the conservatives?
And thanks to draconian rules of engagement put on our military, no foreign policy has been more restrained than that of the USA. People like Kristol were part of that restraint too.
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:43:44 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
We are now starting to see the first generation of U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan who weren’t even alive on 9/11. There’s nothing “restrained” about our foreign policy.
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:47:11 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
To: Alberta's Child
Have the rules of engagement been changed?
If not, restraint still in place. Afghanistan should have been properly conquered and the Taliban just a bad memory.
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:50:12 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Forgotten Amendments
Real conservatives, today, evidently don't bother about gun control legislation such as the bump-stock ban. Also, we don't give a whit about that Cruz fellow what got some knuckleheads banned. The important thing is to blow out our silly individualistic attitudes and toe the line. Hop to it, Stormy Boys!
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:52:34 PM PST
by
golux
To: golux
Did Buchanan have something on him with his amen corner comment/
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posted on
12/18/2018 10:59:58 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Forgotten Amendments; All
Bill, I never did anything in my life but inherit Daddy’s money, Kristol is the son of a man that was a Leon Trotsky loyalist in Mexico.
The Apple does not fall far from the tree...
Bill Kristol is a Globalist (formerly known as Communist and Socialist). He hates Nationalism, Christianity and Capitalism. This is why he projects his hate on to President Trump who is the opposite.
To: Forgotten Amendments
The wise choice of the American people in electing President Trump is that it thwarted and pissed off a lot of important people who “wanted to remake America”. We like America the way it was founded!!
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posted on
12/18/2018 11:41:35 PM PST
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Dapper 26
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To: Forgotten Amendments; Alberta's Child
The comments on that site are gold.
For such a loved magazine, no one except a few like minded authors are mourning The Weekly Standards passing.
That says how much influence Kristol's really had - none.
To: Forgotten Amendments
And I’ll be happy once Bill Kristol is expelled from this Earth. How’s that?
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posted on
12/19/2018 12:45:06 AM PST
by
brewcrew1965
(Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
To: Widget Jr
"... For such a loved magazine, no one except a few like minded authors are mourning The Weekly Standards passing. That says how much influence Kristol's really had - none."Well said!
Old Bill surely held himself in much higher regard that the overwhelming majority of conservatives.
About the only time he was quoted was by a MSM Trump hating author who would inevitably call him a traditional conservative publication..... that should tell you something?
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I always assumed he was an endowment baby because he didn't seem bright enough or possessing the personality to get ahead in the world.
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posted on
12/19/2018 12:53:38 AM PST
by
Sa-teef
To: Olog-hai
17 years of making war against a country that didn’t attack us is pretty much the definition of “unrestrained”.
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posted on
12/19/2018 12:57:31 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
To: Forgotten Amendments
Did they restart the draft?
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posted on
12/19/2018 1:19:06 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Enlightened1
To: Alberta's Child
We make a mistake branding ourselves as conservative. It is anathema to many young people. The original Republicans were Radical. That’s where we need to be.
To: steve8714
Even Lincoln was not a Radical Republican.
Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Goldwater (who wasn’t that radical either, especially when he got old)
To: Forgotten Amendments
Afghanistan is a training ground with live targets you can actually kill.
To: Olog-hai
"Rules of engagement" and "foreign policy" are two different things.
How exactly would the U.S. conquer Afghanistan?
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posted on
12/19/2018 3:25:53 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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