I agree. Juan has always come across to me as a good, sweet soul who still hasn't gotten in touch with his inner conservative!
I even thought so back in 2005, 2006, when I also thought the world of Britt Hume. Odd how things work out. Juan has always been, "What you see is what you get." It has always made him worthy of my respect.
But when, in a fraction of the time, on a fraction of the budget -- and no matter what one thinks of him in retrospect, these facts are true -- Fred Thompson climbed and remained within the margin of error in every single primary poll conducted, and when the actual primaries were held, he even beat Romney and came in second, not third, in one of them, Britt Hume pretended there was no such candidate as Thompson. On a fraction of the budget, in a fraction of the time, Thompson acheived something REMARKABLE by any standards, and I watched Britt "reporting" on the Republican primary race between Romney, McCain, Huckabee, and Giulianni. Britt turned out to be the biggest phony I'd ever fallen for.
I respect Juan Williams and am glad he's around.
As for Britt, piss on him.
He has good influences at home ;o) - he lovely wife (they evidently have a very good marriage) is a conservative republican and his son is active in republican politics.
“Fred Thompson climbed and remained within the margin of error in every single primary poll conducted, and when the actual primaries were held, he even beat Romney and came in second, not third, in one of them, Britt Hume pretended there was no such candidate as Thompson.”
I didn’t remember that - guess I wasn’t listening to Brit so much (for some reason) at that time. Wow. I also liked him for a long time, especially because he’s been open about being a Christian. But both he and Krauthammer lost me when they summarily brushed off my guy Herman Cain from the start and even as he skyrocketed in the polls. And now this bias for Romney - ignoring Newt and anyone else who’s showed promise.
I’ve been very sad about seeing several whom I once respected as conservative intellectuals now revealed as arrogant elitists. Bless a few great ones like Thomas Sowell who fearlessly express their displeasure for Romney and admiration of Newt. I can tell also that Hannity and Dick Morris (who was a big Herman supporter) both like Newt more than Romney, and working at Fox, that takes some guts. They just can’t be as obvious about it as I believe they’d like to.
As far as Juan, you may be right about his “inner conservative”. As I said, his wife and son are (I’ve heard) vocal conservatives, and Juan clearly has traditional values himself. I think he just feels loyalty to his race and his party (hence, BHO)- but he may yet be “trainable” - LOL