Posted on 11/15/2008 6:07:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Since the Weekly Standard launched in 1995, there’s one scenario the conservative magazine hasn’t yet faced: Democrats in control of both the White House and Congress.
But that’s what lies ahead in just two months, leaving staffers there and at other media outlets on the right bracing for a period on the outside. looking in.
The Weekly Standard has long supported the national ambitions of John McCain, going back to the 2000 primary race, and boosted Sarah Palin a year before she was well known to the Lower 48. Nevertheless, editor William Kristol, speaking from the Republican Governors Association meeting, seemed to be taking the loss in stride.
“We’re not going to sit around sniping and wailing and wish, ‘if only things had gone differently,’” Kristol said. “We’ll try to be cheerful.”
And Kristol is not the only one channeling Reaganite optimism at the start of the Obama years. The post-election issue of the National Review, a conservative journal that was frequently critical of McCain, features a sunrise adorning the cover, with one-word in the center: “Renewal.”
“It’s really about the first steps of revitalizing ourselves as conservatives,” said editor Rich Lowry.
Looking inward makes sense now that access will likely be reduced during an Obama administration. It’s doubtful that David Axelrod will answer the phone as quickly as Karl Rove, or that Joe Biden would provide a Weekly Standard writer with the exclusive access that Dick Cheney gave when he sat down with Stephen Hayes for his biography of the vice president.
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Well, if the neoconservative pundits try to cozy up to Obama, they will certainly be disappointed. But if they pull up their socks and do their jobs, then they should be OK.
How often did Rush or Drudge get invited to the clinton White House? It didn’t damage their careers any that I noticed.
Liberty Unbound.
Human Events
Kathleen Parker comes to mind.
Perhaps this should be entitled “How atheists are changing the world.”
I fear less for a shut out of the conservative media as for a shut down. The radical libs in Congress and Obama are very intolerant and will do what they can to shut down conservative voices. Within the next fours years I fully expect the only access to conservative views will be on shortwave broadcasts from foreign countries on the other side of the Obama curtain.
I guess we should call them the “Thatcher” wing of the Republican party. They seem to be the group that has the big brass ones like Margaret. If you think of various “historical” hard times, the women always kept thing going. I sometime think that “Rosie the Riveters” were tougher than the brave Marines storming Tarawa’s beaches. It is often easier to fight and die than to continue on without knowing what your future holds. The problem is we now have very few that are willing to die fighting for Rosie.
I guess I should have simplified this by saying the Rich Lowwer crowd are a bunch of F’n COWARDS.
I dumped my subscription of Weekly Standard a few years ago. Too me it was not worth the money. What I need is a GOOD, all the time conservative magazine, that prints on the conservative view all the time and not the RINO or liberal view. One written along President Reagan’s way of doing things.
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