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  1. ““Beyond infrastructure, the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European-style universal entitlements but a firm safety net, meaning Julia-like treatment for those who really cannot make it on their own–those too young or too old, too mentally or physically impaired, to provide for themselves.
    Limited government so conceived has two indispensable advantages. It avoids inexorable European-style national insolvency. And it avoids breeding debilitating individual dependency. It encourages and celebrates character, independence, energy, hard work as the foundations of a free society and a thriving economy–precisely the virtues Obama discounts and devalues in his accounting of the wealth of nations.”
    ? Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

    http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/300181.Charles_Krauthammer

  2. “The greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state and those like Obama who see it as the ultimate expression of the collective. Obama compounds the fallacy by declaring the state to be the font of entrepreneurial success. How so? It created the infrastructure – roads, bridges, schools, Internet – off which we all thrive. Absurd. We don’t credit the Swiss postal service with the Special Theory of Relativity because it transmitted Einstein’s manuscript to the Annalen der Physik.”
    ? Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

    http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/300181.Charles_Krauthammer

  3. Krauthammer strongly opposed the Oslo accords, predicting that Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat would use the foothold it gave him in the West Bank and Gaza to continue the war against Israel which he had ostensibly renounced in the Israel – PLO Letters of Recognition. In a July 2006 essay in Time, Krauthammer asserted that the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was fundamentally defined by the Palestinians’ unwillingness to accept compromise.[78]

    During the Israel–Lebanon war in 2006, Krauthammer wrote a column, “Let Israel Win the War”, saying: “What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security?”[79] He later criticized the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s conduct, arguing that he “has provided unsteady and uncertain leadership. Foolishly relying on air power alone, he denied his generals the ground offensive they wanted, only to reverse himself later.

  4. Charles Krauthammer understands Israel unlike most of his fellow Washington based writers and pundits. He is also a supporter of Israel.

    Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister.

    I have news for the lowing herds: There would be no peace and no Palestinian state if Isaac Herzog were prime minister either. Or Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert for that matter. The latter two were (non-Likud) prime ministers who offered the Palestinians their own state — with its capital in Jerusalem and every Israeli settlement in the new Palestine uprooted — only to be rudely rejected.
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    This is not ancient history. This is 2000, 2001 and 2008 — three astonishingly concessionary peace offers within the past 15 years. Every one rejected.

    The fundamental reality remains: This generation of Palestinian leadership — from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas — has never and will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with a Jewish state. And without that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree to a Palestinian state.

    Today, however, there is a second reason a peace agreement is impossible: the supreme instability of the entire Middle East.

  6. Kraut is actually very much the rightist on economic issues (pro-free market) and on foreign policy.

    Rhetorically. The entire GOP establishment is rhetorically conservative on economic and foreign policy. Yet every time a “right wing crazy” actually tries to reduce spending, Krauthammer and company assail them for being extreme.

  7. oldjerry Said:

    Which is a polite way of stating that Krauthammer is a big government liberal who advocates slightly less tyranny than does Obama.

    Kraut is actually very much the rightist on economic issues (pro-free market) and on foreign policy. It is on cultural issues where he is not a conservative — abortion, gays, to some extent ethnicity and race.

  8. Take the desire to bash the media, and combine it with Cruz’s intelligence and quick on his feet thinking, and I believe that Trump is now acting as his stalking horse.

    That would be ideal. However, it is difficult to visualize Trump being subservient to anyone.

    However, he is a GOP establishment person

    Which is a polite way of stating that Krauthammer is a big government liberal who advocates slightly less tyranny than does Obama.

  9. Krauthammer said that Obama did the right thing in trading one American deserter for five Muslim terrorists. What more can be said about him?

  10. babushka Said:

    Krauthammer’s reputation for being a conservative remains one of life’s great mysteries. He was the Mondale speechwriter who slandered Reagan as being a “dangerous warmonger”. He has been an implacable opponent of the Tea Party and a cheerleader for the Boehner/McConnell Surrender Wing of the GOP. He is nothing but a corrupt shill for the financial interests of Rupert Murdoch. With conservatives like Krauthammer, liberals need never worry about losing.

    Look, Krauthammer became more conservative and left the Democratic Party as the Party drifted ever leftward, and he saw how badly leftist policies were failing. Give him credit for that much. And let’s be honest, he is the most ardent Israel-defender and Obama critic in the MSM (I do not count talk radio as MSM).

    However, he is a GOP establishment person, and has been in Washington so long, he believes all the doomsday scenarios about the GOP laid out by his PC leftist colleagues at the Washington ComPost.

    This first came to the fore in 2008 with his attacks on Palin. What Krauthammer cannot seem to learn is that the milquetoast GOP establishment is not, and indeed can not, defeat the Democrats without getting down and dirty like the Dems.

    Trump gets this. People like him above all else for one reason — he takes on the Marxist hacks and apparatchiks in the media. Period.

    Now, having said that, he will not be the nominee. Look carefully – notice who is NOT bashing Trump among the GOP candidates? Ted Cruz. Take the desire to bash the media, and combine it with Cruz’s intelligence and quick on his feet thinking, and I believe that Trump is now acting as his stalking horse.

    As a lifelong Republican, I am one of those fed up with the weaklings running the party now. How is it that Iran, Russia, China and ISIS walk all over this abomination of a President, but somehow he manages to walk all over us?

  14. Krauthammer’s reputation for being a conservative remains one of life’s great mysteries. He was the Mondale speechwriter who slandered Reagan as being a “dangerous warmonger”. He has been an implacable opponent of the Tea Party and a cheerleader for the Boehner/McConnell Surrender Wing of the GOP. He is nothing but a corrupt shill for the financial interests of Rupert Murdoch. With conservatives like Krauthammer, liberals need never worry about losing.