"I resemble that remark."
Also relevant wrt current discussions of hawkish "neoconservatives," anti-communist Democrats driven to the right, and to the Republican Party, by the ascendency of the America-hating "New Left" in the Democrat Party, and by the feckless and spineless foreign policy of Jimmy Carter. Jeane Kirkpatrick is among the notables. Others include Paul Wolfowitz, Charles Krauthhammer and Richard Perle.
"I resemble that remark."
Born on November 19, 1926, in Duncan, Oklahoma, Jeane Duane Jordan took an associate's degree from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri (1946), a bachelor's from Barnard College, and a master's and doctorate from Columbia University (1950 and 1968, respectively). After working as a research analyst with the Office of Intelligence Research at the U.S. State Department, she studied at the Institute of Political Science in Paris, France. In 1955 she married Evron M. Kirkpatrick, also a political scientist. She served on several Democratic Party committees and worked intermittently for the United States Department of Defense before joining the "Communism in Government" project of the Fund for the Republic Organization (1956-62). In 1967 she joined the faculty of Georgetown University, where she became a full professor of political science in 1973.
During the 1970s Kirkpatrick increasingly criticized the Democratic Party. Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan hired her as his foreign policy adviser during his successful 1980 campaign and then nominated her for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held for four years. She was given Cabinet rank and was also a member of Reagan's national security team. Kirkpatrick was known for her anticommunist stance and for her tolerance of authoritarian regimes. She was accused of accepting bribes, falsifying tapes that implicated Soviet forces in the shooting down of a Korean passenger jet, and advocating the dismantling of India, all of which she vehemently denied.
In 1985 Kirkpatrick resigned from her position and officially joined the Republican Party. She returned to teaching at Georgetown University while also serving as chief foreign policy adviser to Senate Republicans. She became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and wrote a syndicated column and several articles and books, including The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State (1990) and Good Intentions (1996). In 1993 she co-founded Empower America, a conservative public-policy organization.
The only thing that stands in their way is free enterprise in America, and they will do anything possible, tell any lie, aid any foe, foist any destructive legal ruling to make it happen... because they think it will be good for them. They celebrate perversion, abet sources of internal strife, and concentrate power in the courts. They know that immorality, ignorance, and strife will induce a dependent public that must submit to police power. They know they can use such divisions to empower a dependent bureaucracy with more rules, rules with which to bend a free country to their will and profit. It's all about power and greed, nothing less.
I am reminded that one can often tell where a person comes from by listening to the insults they fling and the impressions of others they project. The visciousness of a Boxer or Pelosi, or the conniving greed of a Feinstein become most obvious in that light.
In this, our latest time to exercise our right to vote, I BUMP this Post.
I always wanted Jeane to run for President after RR's second term. She is one smart, tough, classy lady.
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Oh where have all the good Republicans gone?
A blast from the past. Sadly, it is as relevant today as then in its description of the Democrat Party.
Listen to it at Breitbart.tv
http://www.breitbart.tv/now-more-than-ever-jeane-kirkpatricks-blame-america-first-1984-gop-convention-speech/
Hugh Hewitt played the other night on his radio show.