Why Bush Has No Fear [Krauthammer]

Time Magazine ^ | November 22, 2004 | Charles Krauthammer

[Quilla]

There is an unusual feature to the second Bush Administration that is extraordinarily important but has been almost entirely overlooked. For the first time in a half-century, a two-term presidency will end without sending out its Vice President to seek a mandate for succession at the next election. Vice President Cheney will not run for the presidency, and everyone knows it. When these eight years are over, the Bush-Cheney Administration will simply close up shop.

[mdmathis6]

Oh..I hadn't realized she was pro abort!ion

[Pelham]

Charles Krauthammer is a true visionary.

He was Walter Mondales's speechwriter and worked for Reagan's defeat.

[DaughterofEve]

Even so, he was still more respectable than I was in the early 80's.

I am his enthusiastic fan in the PRESENT.

[sinkspur]

He was Walter Mondales's speechwriter and worked for Reagan's defeat.

So? He's in the tent now.

Your buddy Buchanan worked for Reagan, and look where that dumb-ass is today.

[PeriwinkleMinniepaws]

are you sure Condi's pro-baby-slaughter?

[Pelham]

I've yet to see Krauthammer have second thoughts about his support for Mondale and opposition to Reagan. You express regret for your former politics- and that's more than Krauthammer has done.

[Pelham]

look where that dumb-ass is today

He's one of your Catholic co-religionists, isn't he? You might want to take a lesson from him, pinkspur, he doesn't resort to ad hominem arguments. But then I guess you are making the most cogent argument that you can, so I'll credit you with trying hard.

So? He's in the tent now.

Apparently Krauthammer kicked Mel Gibson out of that tent. How about you?

[sinkspur]

Krauthammer is a conservative, now. Pat Buchanan has gone from a paleo-con to a complete isolationist and Jew hater.

Gibson's movie was good. I know nothing about Gibson as a person. His father is certainly anti-semitic, so let's hope the apple fell far from the tree.

[Pelham]

let's hope the apple fell far from the tree.

It used to be standard practice for the hard left to promiscuously toss around accusations of 'racist' or 'anti-semite' or 'Jew-hater'. I imagine it still is. What that says about the tree which you have fallen from is for each to decide.

[sinkspur]

Buchanan's anti-semitism is an acknowledged fact.

[ErnBatavia]

Charles Krauthammer....National Treasure.

[ErnBatavia]

That picture just HAS to inflame some leftwing hemmies!

[Pelham]

Facts are stubborn things, pinky.
You should learn the distinction between fact and opinion, that is if you take prohibitions against bearing false witness as a sacred trust. There's plenty here who don't.

[sinkspur]

Charles Krauthammer.......National Treasure.

[HitmanLV]

I don't think Hilly is nearly as formidable as she has convinced herself and the talking heads. We don't need a woman on top of the ticket, necessarily, to beat Hilly, though I suppose a woman on the ticket would be a good benefit.

I have seen Hilly on tv these last few days - I think she lookes like a relic from a time past. She is more suited for strutting around in 1995 than she is strutting around in 2008. If you think Kerry was a stiff who couldn't connect with people (and to be fair he connected with over 55 million), Hilly is even his inferior.

She just looks and acts out of date - that's good enough for the people on NY who will keep on eleting her senator, but it isn't good enough for most of the so-called 'Red States.'

As I see it, most of the EVs Hilly would get would go to any dem running - the left coast, the north east, and IL/MN/MI. Actually, though its hard to say 4 years out, I don't think she would win most of the following Kerry States: Wiscomsin, Pennsylvania, and with the wind out our back maybe NJ (Hilly's act doesnt play well there I think). In any case, starting with Bush's 286 EVs, that would only add up to 332 EVs max.

The Republican Range in EVs seems to be around 271-332 or so, and thats if we get every break. I don't see that changing much in '08 - the only difference would be that the 911 terror attack will be even more of a distant menory, which hurts the GOP rather than helps it.

Any decent Republican candidate should be able to beat Hilly - she isn't the bogeyman her publicists insist she is. Frankly, I don't even think she gets the 2008 nomination.

[BIGLOOK]

McCain is the flip side of Kerry...without the flip.

[Pelham]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried66.html

[sinkspur]

Lew Rockwell is anti-American. He and Justin Raimondo ought to get married.

[longtermmemmory]

Reminds me of the ending pep talk of the movie "The Replacements".

Bush said it best with his acceptance speech, no mater where the next four years take him, it will end with his return to Crawford.