Mortimer Snerd Krauthammer
Posted on 10/17/2008 6:28:46 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
“As for Buckley, his reasoning for supporting Obama is laughably shallow.”
THANK YOU!
That is it, exactly. I read that column, and I was astonished by its monumental vapidity. If he had said I support Obama for some serious reason(s), that would have been one thing. But that nonsense about “temperment” was ridiculous, and ridiculously naive. The fact is we know very little about Obama’s true temperment, plainly he is a great dissembler, arguably he’s an “empty suit”, and his smooth exterior is just not a compelling reason to support him. And on the other side of the scale, the I don’t like McCain, he sounds too mean (I paraphrase) was equally shallow.
The piece was like one written by a twelve year old girl to explain why she is switching “best friends”.
Really embarassing. I can’t imagine what is up with Christopher Buckley, but there was NOTHING in that article that was worthy of any kind of intellectual respect.
Mortimer Snerd Krauthammer
Exactly. What is it that these columnists don't understand? A lot of conservatives don't like McCain but that doesn't mean you bash the ticket and support Obama!!! It defies common sense.
If you have conservative principles and believe in limited government, how could you vote for Obama?? But ah, there's the rub. These people don't have principles. The fact that Obama is going to jack up taxes so that pretty much everyone is paying 40% to 60% in tax, or enact a massive expansion of entitlements doesn't phase them. Its all a big game to them--especially a dilettante like Buckley who never had to earn a dime in his life and never had to prove himself in the work world.
I have had huge reservations about George "Lyndon Baines" Bush for years. It depresses me that people call him a conservative. He spent and expanded entitlements like a drunken sailor. But I supported him and voted for him because his philosophy was closer to mine that Gore or Kerry. And I agreed with him on a lot--especially the War on Terror and Iraq. I didn't say "Bush is a domestic liberal so I'm voting for Kerry." It defies common sense.
So are you voting for Obama then? I don’t get the thrust of your argument. I’m not such much voting for McCain, but for Sarah and against Obama.
How many months (not years, I pray) are left in Kathleen Parker's contract with Townhall?
On the strength of her last year's worth of columns, capped by her recent Palin Derangement screeds, may I respectfully suggest that the relationship not be renewed?
Mrs. Parker has demonstrated her bona fides to the Other Side, and now that she's certain to be invited to all the best inside-the-Beltway parties, she can undoubtedly do without Townhall.
This faithful Townhall reader can certainly do without her.
Parker thinks that us grassroots conservatives are too stupid and backward to know what’s best for ourselves. They need the elites to tell us what to think and why. But media has changed. They can’t control us like they used to and their time is up.
“What does it mean that the right cannot politely entertain dissenting opinions within its ranks?”
Dissent is for the primaries, Kathleen. When it’s go time during a close and very important election, the weak sisters, demoralizers, hand-wringers, and outright traitors need to be put out of the camp.
If Kathleen and Chris are too dimwitted to understand why Republicans and conservatives do not appreciate the aid and comfort they give to the lying, corrupt, radical socialist Obama who seeks to become our next president, they are too stupid to be appearing in the pages of National Review.
‘I sent this note last week to Jonathan Garthwaite, editor-in-chief over at Townhall.com, which carries KP’s column:
How many months (not years, I pray) are left in Kathleen Parker’s contract with Townhall?
On the strength of her last year’s worth of columns, capped by her recent Palin Derangement screeds, may I respectfully suggest that the relationship not be renewed?
Mrs. Parker has demonstrated her bona fides to the Other Side, and now that she’s certain to be invited to all the best inside-the-Beltway parties, she can undoubtedly do without Townhall.
This faithful Townhall reader can certainly do without her.’
Wow...did you get a response?
Here’s the problem with Parker, Buckley and Noonan - they have lived as a novelty in big-city social circles of liberals, attended liberal universities where liberal principles were shoved down their throats. Meanwhile, no Conservative buys the books and papers they write for. We buy Coulter, Ingraham, Hannity and others. They’ve lost touch with us and fallen back on their liberal roots. Frankly, I think they’re tired of getting made fun of. They’re working their way to a Sally Quinn dinner party invitation and the MSM is using them at our expense.
Republicans are not short on brainpower — or pride — but they have strayed off course. They do not, in fact, deserve to win this time, and someone had to remind them why.So Kathleen Parker believes that because of the personal shortcomings of some Republicans that the country therefore deserves socialism and a far-left supermajority, the death of the conservative agenda for a generation, and the destruction of all that it has achieved since WFB stood up to champion it?
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