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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Splashdown on October 24, 2008, 09:15:34 AM
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With some of his recent columns, along with some of the other ship-jumpers lately, I was worried. He makes his case:
First, I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The “erratic†temperament issue, for example. As if McCain’s risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.
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Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign†pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.†And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
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The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic, soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
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Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.
link (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWRiZTUzNWQ3ZTIwZjViODJlMjc0OWQyODU3NDA4NGY=)
He hasn't been the most McCain-friendly pundit out there. And I really think he's wrong in his negative assessment of Palin. But he hits a home run here.
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I like Krauthammer - not because he is friendly, but because he is tough in his assessments.