Tag: Charles Krauthammer

O’Donnell, you’re soooo bad!

Get thee behind me, Charles Krauthammer.  I renounce you and all your works.

Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea partier Christine O’Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but Pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Barack Obama’s social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda,

he says in today’s Chi Trib, playing the tempter.

He just knows this to be true.  No chance for her, he would like to say, but as a pundit he must cover options, so to O’Reilly he said one in ten.

I say he believes it but is also repelled by the woman, who is socially conservative and un-Harvard-like in ways he finds repellent.  Like Sarah Palin. 

These women do not fit into his worldview except as viewed from the tip of one’s nose, head down slightly, just enough to make his point.

Sorry, Charles, you do not speak to my condition, I being for many months in a life of quiet desperation, politically speaking.

Later great (second) thought: Another interpretation is possible: Charles wants Obama held up at the pass so much that he’s extremely exercised about what he considers blowing the opportunity.  Which makes him too much the rational thinker, not enough the romantic.  The O’Donnell nomination is pressing Tea Party luck — too far, he says.  But this is no time to be squeamish, say the gung-ho revolutionaries, or at least rebellion-pushers.  Among which am I.

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Mort and Charles lose their groove

Last night Fox commentaters Mort and Charles — Kondracke and Krauthammer respectively — let it all hang out about town hall protestors. Mort got very excited, blinking disapproval at twice the usual rate, and Charles called the town-hallers’ display of indignation “a mistake,” as if GOP strategists had called the shot, one that cost the Republicans popularity during the past week by deflecting attention from the presumably unpopular Dem health-care initiative or “reform,” as they call it.

When Charles noted that GOP Sen. McConnell, minority leader, had said the demos were a bad idea, Mort spouted, “Oh come on!” which did much for the panel’s calm exchange of ideas. Did Mort think he was in a Tea Party town hall? He got indignant and excited over other people getting indignant and excited. McConnell should have got indignant and excited too — he did this once in fourth grade but gave it up as a bad idea — Mort apparently thinks.

The Republican party is “afraid of Rush Limbaugh,” further spouted Mort — are things going bad at Roll Call, where he works? Something must explain his unbridled indignation and excitement at this grass-roots indignation and excitement by taxpayers.

It was a “bad idea,” Charles said, as if the RNC had got the idea and acted on it. Charles also, albeit without indignation and excitement, was chastising citizens who just don’t know how to act. They are not his kind of people, it is become clear. Their kids don’t go to Harvard, for one thing. Tsk, tsk.

Later: What the heck was Charles talking about, it being bad strategy to go ballistic at town halls, in view of this from Rasmussen?

Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June.

More significantly, 44% of voters strongly oppose the health care reform effort versus 26% who strongly favor it. Intensity has been stronger among opponents of the plan since the debate began

Support for Congressional Health Care Reform Falls to New Low – Rasmussen Reports\

This shows no diminution of anti-reform sentiment, as Charles (and I suppose Mort, though his bluster makes it hard to figure) claimed.