Thursday, June 21, 2018

RIP Charles Krauthammer

21 comments:

James said...

Although the conservative commentator spent the end of his career as a pundit on Fox News, the preferred news outlet of President Donald Trump, Krauthammer didn’t shy away from criticizing the president. He refused to vote for him and didn’t sugarcoat his belief that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election.

He was also a harsh critic of President Barack Obama and took controversial stances doubting climate change and denouncing gun control efforts.
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Two of Krauthammer's last acts of patriotism were:
His refusal to vote for Trump
His refusal to refrain from criticizing Trump

Two of his acts of cowardice were:
Selling out to big industry in its denial of environmental endangerment
Selling out to the big gun industrial lobbyists

Anonymous said...

Two of Krauthammer's acts of patriotism were:

Stood up to environmental terrorists
Strong supporter of the second amendment

Two of his acts of cowardice were:

His initial never-Trump position though he did start to give him some credits such as for his court appointments.
His failure to be more vocal in standing up to the corrupt Obama regime

Loretta said...

So very sad.

Such an inspiration.

Anonymous said...



Charles was a national treasure and he had no equal among liberals.

Godspeed Dr. Krauthammer.

Anonymous said...

His efforts and truth will be so missed.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

His opposition to Donald Trump has guaranteed his legacy for all time in American history.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He agreed with Joe Scarborough.

Trump’s obsession with wall-building and zero-tolerance has led Americans to this grim political spectacle. His personal cruelty and political ignorance have created a crisis that will kill conservative immigration reform and lead to future Democratic majorities. More troubling is the harsh reality now staring Americans in the face: Their president is a brutish political boss who has cheapened conservatism, sullied the office of the presidency and called into question the very character of a country once seen as the envy of the world. That so many Republicans still support this depraved man and his malignant movement could be the most damning element of this tragic American tale.

commie said...

The last honest conservative true to his beliefs....unlike the so called conservatives here....

Anonymous said...

Lol

Anonymous said...

2018 Democrat platform.
We Hate, vote for more Hate.

commie said...

As predicted, the laziest idiot claiming to be a conservative chimes in with his own brand of idiocy....LOLOLOL

Blogger KD said...
Lol

James said...


Joe Scarborough
@JoeNBC
Two years ago, ⁦@Krauthammer⁩ explains why Trump is unfit to be president and predicted the tragedy of this week:

Trump has “a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows — parental grief.”*
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Replying to @JoeNBC @Caren329 and @krauthammer
This is why I respected Charles because even though he was a conservative, he wasn't afraid to speak his mind. He wasn't afraid to call out Trump. We need more like Charles.
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*I guess that was when he criticized the gold star family.

Anonymous said...

NannystateNancy says this is meaningless.

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
Released On 6/21/2018 9:45:00 AM For wk6/17, 2018
Prior 55.8
Actual 56.5

James said...

Krauthammer on Trump's Tweets: This Is What It's Like in a Banana Republic

"Presidents don't talk like this. They never have," Krauthammer said. "This is what it sounds like when you're living in a banana republic. This is how Hugo Chavez would talk about his opponents. This is how the worst dictator, Duterte in the Philippines, would talk about opponents."

Mercedes Schlapp pushed back, pointing out that Trump is not shutting down the press or using military force to silence his critics, as those dictators did.

"When you defend the president of the United States by pointing out that he hasn't sent the tanks out in the streets to shut down the media, you've reached a fairly low level of defense," Krauthammer replied.

He added it's not just the fact that Trump's Twitter remarks are an embarrassment and a distraction, but also that they give an unfiltered, uncensored look at Trump's psyche.

"What we're seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking," Krauthammer said.

Anonymous said...

Lol@ Liberal Hate.

Anonymous said...

Wellstone Memorial here today.

Anonymous said...

Krauthammer's final essay entitled "Decline is a Choice (2009)" has the disadvantage of having been written prior to Obama's second win.

"America has chosen decline and it did so by voting for American passivity, retreat, and failed leadership after a four-year record of "empirical evidence" (the stuff that led to Krauthammer's evolution from a Democrat to a Republican and what has led any thinking person to follow in his footsteps) proving what Obama's critics have been saying for years. But Krauthammer did recognize that:

"Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course toward the latter."

Krauthammer observed that Obama's foreign policy is one
designed to produce American decline
-- to make America essentially one nation among many. And for that purpose, its domestic policies are perfectly complimentary.

But he recognized that the Europeans can afford social democracy without the capacity to defend themselves because they can always depend on the Untied States....

"Europe can eat, drink and be merry for America protects her. But for America it's different. If we choose the life of ease, who stands guard for us?"

Commonsense said...

It speaks volumes to the shallowness of the liberals here that they can only praise Krauthammer’s criticisms of Trump. Krauthhammer spoke the truth as he saw it and for that he will be sorely missed.

James said...

Krauthhammer spoke the truth as he saw it

and he saw through Trump very well

Commonsense said...

Saw through Obama as well. Would have saw through you too James if you were worth knowing.

Loretta said...

And Hillary.