Posted on 01/15/2013 4:48:27 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Who would you trust more to reflect how William F. Buckley, Jr. would have felt on an important issue of the day: the editors of the National Review--the magazine that WFB founded--or the combined wisdom of Arianna Huffington and Joe Scarborough? In an editorial published before Hagel's nomination became official, the Editors at National Review wrote: "Chuck Hagel is a very poor choice for the next secretary of defense," concluding that he was "definitively not the man who should be the next secretary of defense."
But on today's Morning Joe, when Huffington asked "don't you think William F. Buckley would be endorsing Chuck Hagel now?", Scarborough responded with an emphatic "yes!"
View the video here.
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I don’t know about you, but when I want to know how William F. Buckley, Jr. would have felt about an issue, I always consult Arianna Huffington and Joe Scarborough /sarc. Ping to Today show list.
I don’t know about you, but when I want to know how William F. Buckley, Jr. would have felt about an issue, I always consult Arianna Huffington and Joe Scarborough /sarc. Ping to Today show list.
The ‘Progressives’ have this ongoing meme about how today’s Democrats are actually yesterdays Republicans. I’ve read that most Dems are actually Regan Republicans now.
As if anything a Greek goldigger who married a flaming fairy for his money should have anything to say about anything I would pay attention to.
Perhaps she means his son.
“Arianna Huffington & Scarborough Claim: W.F. Buckley, Jr. Would Have Supported Hagel” agreed .... and your point is?
OMG it’s the cryptkeeper!
Hagel will be more destructive to the American military than Field Marshall Rommel or Admiral Yamamoto
The combined wisdom of Huffington and Scarborough, if quantified, would be an imaginary number.
It would not surprise me to find that Ms. faux-Huffington fancies herself a psychic medium as well as a pundit and therefore regularly carries on conversations with Saint William of Connecticut. Nevertheless, there is some hard truth to her assertion. Buckley was a hardliner during the Cold War and never wavered in his unflinching defense of Christendom against the Soviet scourge. As regards the WWWOT, on the other hand, he was much less stalwart and would have found some common ground with Hagel on the question of the appropriate degree of U.S. engagement in endless wars and nation building exercises in the M.E. He quite openly questioned the wisdom of Pres. Bush’s Iraq policy, for example. I doubt he would have openly supported Hagel, however, by virtue of the latter’s limp support for Israel and occasional exhibitions of latent antisemitism. For these sins he had no charity.
And the fact that Huffington flipped from TV conservative to
liberal bedwetter in a heartbeat boosts her credibility as well
As long as we’re channeling the dead, I’m sure Chester A. Arthur, Orville Redenbacher and the Emperor Nero would have supported Hagel too.
Yes, and I’m certain that Pope Leo XIII would have supported female priests.
They take their typical Leftist 'parasitical position' and hitch a ride and attach their antithetical message in the 'words of'; in the 'names of'; those valued Patriots in our history - old and new. Those personages; the Left otherwise; historically derides and denounces.
A blatant identity theft - and common practice of - an otherwise ignorant and empty Left.
Wow, putting words in the mouth of a deceased person, just when you think libs can’t go any lower they drop the bar.
Re-write/destroy the history of a dead man or a dead country. It's what plunderers do. Thanks for being out there, Mark...watching, reporting. Amazing FReeper consistency/longetivity BUMP!
Thanks so much, PGalt. As I always say, it’s my—twisted—pleasure ;-)
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