Charles Krauthammer appears to be one strange bird

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-krauthammer

Ideology

Krauthammer is generally considered a conservative or neoconservative. However, he is a supporter of legalized abortion, an opponent of the death penalty, a debunker of Intelligent Design and defender of evolution, a supporter of embryonic stem cell research (involving embryos discarded by fertility clinics), a longtime advocate of radically higher energy taxes to induce conservation, and, in a written work of over a million words, has never once quoted Leo Strauss. The late Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor of the Washington Post who edited Krauthammer for 15 years, called Krauthammer's column "independent and hard to peg politically. It's a very tough column. There's no 'trendy' in it. You never know what is going to happen next."

[annabanana]

1. He is.. I think some kind of

crane.. or vulture

[madokie]

2. Isn't he part of PNAC

[KamaAina]

5. PNAC "folded". But fear not, they do this every few years

very much like a snake shedding its skin. Before PNAC, there was the "Committee on the Present Danger" and so forth. All the same people. :puke:

You will, however, be pleased to know that the classic "Rebuilding America's Defenses", complete with the money quote about "a cataclysmic event such as a new Pearl Harbor" -- from Septermber 2000 :tinfoilhat: -- is mirrored all over the place, for instance at

http://pnac.info/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

edit: it's on p. 63 of the PDF

[Mnemosyne]

11. They're back!

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

[KamaAina]

12. The stake, Dr. Van Helsing! The stake!

:scared:

[Mnemosyne]

22. Make that T-bone! I ain't afraid of no steaks!

:evilgrin:

Seriously, can we get an exorcism for them?

[bigtree]

3. Meg brought Krauthammer and George Will to the editorial pages

. . . when she took over as editorial editor to bring a sense of 'balance' to the paper. She also brought on Michael Kinsley and Roger W. Wilkins

[Joe the Liberal]

4. Strange indeed......

He sounds pretty liberal/ progressive to me but he's a conservative? :wtf:

I don't believe him.

[Tallison]

7. He may not be an ideologue, but he LOVES Sarah Palin

Column after column this season, he was the Post's equivalent of Bill Kristol. Total intellectual backwash. I wonder if his support for embryonic stem cell research is the fruit of his own spinal cord injury. You know, similar to the one Nancy Reagan bore after disability afflicted her dear Ronnie....

ETA: And he's gung-ho paranoid about national security and the threat Muslims everywhere pose to it.

[cemaphonic]

13. really?

I read at least one column of his, that was pretty damn critical of her, and that was before her celebrity got punctured by those disastrous interview.

But I don't read him very often, so it may have been a fluke.

[Tallison]

14. Definitely a fluke

The column I think you're referring to was written on 9/12, right after the convention, in which he feared Palin's pick would neutralize the inexperience argument against O. As the press exposed her, he published serial passionate defenses of her in his weekly column. David Brooks, he's not.

[cemaphonic]

18. Yeah, that sounds like the one I remember

So he attacked her when she was popular, and defended her when she was unpopular? Maybe he just likes being contrary.

[spanone]

6. he gives me the creeps.

[Tallison]

8. Thank you!

Give me David Brooks any day...

[NNN0LHI]

23. He reminds me of Dr. Strangelove every time I see him

[EconomicLiberal]

9. A Republican who thinks for himself?

Shocking!

[rug]

10. I didn't know he was a psychiatrist.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

21. Useful. He's definitely schizoid

No one can hold such mutually exclusive beliefs and not be borderline crazy.

Krauthammer is a six-pack of assholes sunk in a vat of earwax.

[AlCzervik]

15. most original neocons weren't social conservatives, they were all about foreign policy

terrible foreign policy.

[Cali_Democrat]

17. Exactly.

nt

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

20. Neocon foreign policy is nothing if not simple

Kill or conquer brown people and steal their natural resources. Sell them off to the highest bidder who will most brutally screw and exploit American consumers.

[camera obscura]

16. How the hell can you oppose the death penalty but support those who would impose it?

"Hmm... legalized murder or civil unions... well, god forbid those gays start marrying!"

[Beacool]

19. He is a fiscal conservative,

not necessarily the same as a social conservative.

:-)

[THUNDER HANDS]

24. he supports stem cell research because of his condition

whatever the hell it is, but it's not good. He's sort of like Timmy from South Park.

[CTyankee]

25. I recall reading that his condition is a result of a head injury he got diving into a shallow pool.

He may have other stuff, too, as a result, but that is what I remember reading about way back when...