If Krauthammer has expressed opinions having a “validity that many other commentators miss,” then they are greatly overshadowed by his tendency to make comments which harm the conservative cause, while his criticism of the left seems to be carefully done in a tiptoe manner so as to allow them to proceed full steam.
I have already said that I don’t buy into everything that Krauthammer prints or says on his talk show panels, but I believe I have to defend him because you continue to opine that he “makes comments which harm the conservative cause”.
Well here are three columns where this is not the case:
A disaster with many fathers
May 28, 2010
In this article CK points out the obvious fact that Obama’s policies have made it impossible to drill for oil in safe places and that drilling in deep water could be predicted to have high risks. I believe this serves the conservative position because we should in fact be drilling and producing oil during any transition to “green power” or my favorite — Nuclear power.
Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews
Friday, June 4, 2010
In this article he stands up for Israel in their use of a blockade of Gaza. As a conservative Jew myself, I find that the exposure of the facts that this was not a humanitarian effort but an attempt to break a blockade that CK finds to be entirely legal to be of support to the conservative (pro Israel) position.
Terror — and candor in describing the Islamist ideology behind it July 2, 2010
“Holder’s avoidance of the obvious continues the absurd and embarrassing refusal of the Obama administration to acknowledge who out there is trying to kill Americans and why.” In this article CK points out that members of Obama’s administration cannot bring themselves to be even slightly critical of Islamic Fundamentalism. I believe this supports a conservative position.
Now — you can find things that CK has said that may appear to support the Obama administration — such as saying that we will have to work hard to undo the make up of the Congress and that the bills already passed are irrevokable until we change Congress and the White House or that we should not underestimate Obama’s political capability. The fact is that he is right about this, it is an uphill battle and elections do matter. Why is it so wrong to say something that every conservative should understand pretty clearly after living with this president for 18 months?