... Bush muddied the ideological waters of conservatism. It was Bush who teamed with Teddy Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind, a federal venture into education that would have been anathema to (the early) Reagan. It was Bush who signed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. It was Bush who strongly supported the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill. It was Bush who on his own created a vast new entitlement program, the Medicare drug benefit. And it was Bush who conducted a foreign policy so expansive and, at times, redemptive as to send paleoconservatives like Pat Buchanan and traditional conservatives like George Will into apoplexy and despair (respectively). Who in the end prepared the ground for the McCain ascendancy? Not Feingold. Not Kennedy. Not even Giuliani. It was George W. Bush. Bush begat McCain. ... Hat Tip : Lady Hawk (methinks the Lady is in love with Charles!)
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Dear Mr. Tiger:
You make me blush!
I am an admirer of Mr. Krauthammer, as well as Mr. Sowell, Mr. Beck, Mr. Doug, and you-but I have my husband's permission! I use all of you to help me create a lens to understand what is going in the world, since the mass media clouds the vision.
I know .... you just love Charles for his mind! : )
When I watch the "expert panel" on FOXNEWS Special Report w/Brit the Fake, Krauthammer is only one speaking with a Conservative voice!
Fred Barnes? He's a Republican Kool-Aid drinker!
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