He’s too conservative for them, but if you look carefully at his past, Stein is really more along the lines of the McCain/Nixon country-club progressive statist Republicans.
He also ignored every warning sign of our current economic problems and made fun of people who were predicting it.
This isn’t to say that he doesn’t have his good points. I’m just saying that he’s not Mr. Conservative.
“...and made fun of people who were predicting it.”
He, among many others, openly laughed at Peter Schiff when he predicted the housing melt-down and the current
economic disaster.
“Stein is really more along the lines of the McCain/Nixon country-club progressive statist Republicans.”
I disagree wholeheartedly:
Ben if staunchly pro-life (loudly anti-abortion).
And the GOP’s country club wing HATES that sort of moral conviction.
>>He’s too conservative for them, but if you look carefully at his past, Stein is really more along the lines of the McCain/Nixon country-club progressive statist Republicans.<<
Yes indeed- McCain, Stein, and Nixon belong to the Eisenhower Era of Big Goverment.
His dad was Herb Stein, Nixon’s economics guy...when Nixon supported wage/price freezes.
Ed
Ben Stein got old pretty fast for me ... I used to read his columns, first (I think) in the American Spectator, and enjoyed them ... for awhile. Read them for awhile in News Max mag, too. Now I just skip them as a matter of course. Too often I get the feeling, as he speaks about his precious kid, his work, his lifestyle, etc., that he’s pretty smug, a “Don’t you wish you were me?” kind of thing. I’ve been guilty of the same thing at times, I’m sure, and find it as unattractive in Stein as I’ve found it in myself. Maybe that’s why I don’t care much for Ben Stein’s columns.