Bill Kristol say there is dyspepsia on the right.
This is an important moment for the conservative movement. Not because conservatives have some sort of obligation to fall in behind John McCain. They don’t. Those conservatives who can’t abide McCain are free to rally around Mitt Romney. And if McCain does prevail for the nomination, conservatives are free to sit out the election.
But I’d say this to them: When the primaries are over, if McCain has won the day, don’t sulk and don’t sit it out. Don’t pretend there’s no difference between a candidate who’s committed to winning in Iraq and a Democratic nominee who embraces defeat. Don’t tell us that it doesn’t matter if the next president voted to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, or opposed them. Don’t close your eyes to the difference between pro-life and pro-choice, or between resistance to big government and the embrace of it.
And don’t treat 2008 as a throwaway election. If a Democrat wins the presidency, he or she will almost certainly have a Democratic Congress to work with. That Congress will not impede a course of dishonorable retreat abroad. It won’t balk at liberal Supreme Court nominees at home. It won’t save the economy from tax hikes.
If, by contrast, McCain wins the presidency ” and all the polls suggest he’d be the best G.O.P. bet to do so ” he’ll be able to shape a strong American foreign policy, nominate sound justices and fight for parts of the conservative domestic agenda.
One might add a special reason that conservatives ” and the nation ” owe John McCain at least a respectful hearing. Only a year ago, we were headed toward defeat in Iraq. Without McCain’s public advocacy and private lobbying, President Bush might not have reversed strategy and announced the surge of troops in January 2007. Without McCain’s vigorous leadership, support for the surge in Congress would not have been sustained in the first few months of 2007. So: No McCain, no surge. No surge, failure in Iraq, a terrible setback for America ” and, as it happens, no chance for a G.O.P. victory in 2008.
Some conservatives can close their eyes to all this. They can choose to stand aside from history while having a temper tantrum. But they should consider that the American people might then choose not to invite them back into a position of responsibility for quite a while to come.
Fred Barnes wants us to heed Barry Goldwater’s advice in 1960. “Let’s grow up, conservatives,” he said. “If we want to take this party back, and I think we can, let’s get to work.”
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“Bill Kristol say there is dyspepsia on the right.”
Bill Kristol is a Reoublican shill. Easily proven by this statement:
“Some conservatives can close their eyes to all this. They can choose to stand aside from history while having a temper tantrum. But they should consider that the American people might then choose not to invite them back into a position of responsibility for quite a while to come.”
By inferring that those who disagree with his position is “having a temper tantrum” are folks who are irresponsible and have not thought their positions out.
On the contrary Mr. Kristol and all those who agree with him. I have thought long and hard about my position and have come to my position with grim resolution. I am looking at the polictal landscape and putting my foot down. I am saying that I have had enough with having two candidates who socialist difference isn’t but a hill of beans. I am saying I want to follow the vision of this nation put forward by The Founding Fathers and not Karl Marx.I am saying I want my country back from the politically irresponsible who drives forward the destruction of this nation.
No, a vote for John McCain is being no more responsible than a vote for Hillary Clinton at this point. Mr. Kristol and all of you Republican party shills, I will put forth this for you to ponder:
Perhaps it is not I and my Conserva
“Bill Kristol say there is dyspepsia on the right.”
Bill Kristol is a Republican shill. Easily proven by this statement:
“Some conservatives can close their eyes to all this. They can choose to stand aside from history while having a temper tantrum. But they should consider that the American people might then choose not to invite them back into a position of responsibility for quite a while to come.”
By inferring that those who disagree with his position is “having a temper tantrum” are folks who are irresponsible and have not thought their positions out.
On the contrary Mr. Kristol and all those who agree with him. I have thought long and hard about my position and have come to my position with grim resolution. I am looking at the polecat landscape and putting my foot down. I am saying that I have had enough with having two candidates who socialist difference isn’t but a hill of beans. I am saying I want to follow the vision of this nation put forward by The Founding Fathers and not Karl Marx.I am saying I want my country back from the politically irresponsible who drives forward the destruction of this nation.
No, a vote for John McCain is being no more responsible than a vote for Hillary Clinton at this point. Mr. Kristol and all of you Republican party shills, I will put forth this for you to ponder:
Perhaps it is not I and my Conservative brethren who are being irresponsible. Perhaps it is the Republican and the Neo-Conservatives with in the party that is being truly irresponsible for not giving us a viable candidate to vote for.