Archive for the ‘Republicans who have had enough’ Category

Dr. Pangloss Surveys the Right

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

David Brooks has the admirable and rare quality for someone in his position of not being the least bit stingy in helping young writers he feels are talented get ahead in their careers, nor does he expect any sort of quid pro quo. Unfortunately, Brooks’ nose for talent has a very spotty track record, and the result is sometimes that the world would have been better off if he were more self-involved. For example, several years ago, after Brooks spent a semester guesting at Yale, he gave a plug in his Times column to the then unfinished biography one of his students was writing about Charles Hill, most recently late of the Giuliani campaign, a warmongering non-scholar and non-intelligent man who seems to have secured some sort of legacy lectureship ‘neath the elms. Anyway, because of Brooks’ plug, the book garnered attention from publishers that would have been unimaginable otherwise, and the author eventually cashed out for something in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. The ultimate product of Brooks’ generosity, however, was perhaps the worst “Yale book” ever written, and bear in mind that’s a class that includes God and Man at Yale.

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(Update) If I Were Obama…

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I’d be doing all in my power to convince Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) to switch parties and accept the Veep slot. On many issues Hagel holds impeccable conservative creds — but is quite good on war/foreign policy — and being a pale dude from the heartland he could assuage those voters who think Obama is unpatriotic, extreme, and “hates whitey.” And, as the first linked article shows, Hagel can and does say things about McSame that Obama would have some PR problems proclaiming. Among other things, Hagel is a well-decorated Vietnam combat vet. That would make him the perfect harbinger for replying to any insinuations that McCain’s suffering in the Hanoi Hilton renders sensible his contemporary, horrific foreign policy.
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Update: This is the unpleasant problem Hagel might help solve: Obama Faces Uphill Climb vs. McCain Among White Voters
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(Update) More on Prof. Kmiec’s Endorsement of Obama

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Below I wrote about my Republican, devout Catholic and former Constitutional Law professor Doug Kmiec’s having endorsed Barack Obama’s candidacy. He has just given an interview to Beliefnet in which he expands on that decision, and says that the responses he’s received have been running 4-1 in his favor. Also, declares Kmiec, my emphasis: (more…)

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(Update) *He* is Endorsing Obama!?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

As my author bio notes, I attended the Notre Dame law school. I learned Constitutional Law from Professor Douglas Kmiec, who had served directly under Ed Meese in the Reagan DoJ. Prof. Kmiec was and is a devout Catholic who believes abortion should be illegal, and that marriage should be restricted to heterosexual couples. He has always been a Republican. (I tilted that way myself, then, and at the time shared his views on criminalizing abortion.)

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