I was puzzled by Krauthammer’s sudden turn. Last week he was praising Bambi to the skies, and this week he suddenly seems to have awakened to what’s really going on.
I honestly don’t think Krauthammer’s so much a false conservative as he is a naive one. All it takes is one little gesture from his enemy, and he’s convinced said enemy has shown his good heart and the battle is won. Bush, unfortunately, behaved very similarly. It’s hard for people like that to believe the duplicity of their enemies.
I was impressed by the tone of this article, however, and I would suspect that it’s the stealth “death panels” that made Krauthammer rethink things. As a paraplegic, he’s certainly moving to the head of the Obama death line, and it’s very possible that this (along with the cynical trickiness with which it was done) is making him think twice.
“I was puzzled by Krauthammer’s sudden turn.”
I don’t expect this to persist, but that doesn’t reduce the disappointment in a ‘fellow Promethean’... IQ is just a capacity - that’s about it.