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Anti-T-rump conservative Charles Krauthammer dead at 68

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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Conservative commentator and Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer died at 68 today, just two weeks after revealing he was losing his battle to cancer and didn't have long to live. FOX NEWS, who was his regular employer for the latter part of his life, reported his passing.

Though he was a fierce critic of Obama (yet praised his intellect and temperament) , he saved his worst criticism for T-rump, going against the grain at FOX and calling himself a "Never Trumper", whom he called a 'vulgarian - unfit for the Presidency'.

Wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist about T-rump and his behavior as a President:

"I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully...I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him."

Responded T-rump in a Tweet:

"Krauthammer pretends to be a smart guy, but if you look at his record, he isn't. A dummy who is on too many Fox shows. An overrated clown!"

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He went out opposing Trump. If there is a god, he has that going for him.

[–] filmtenk (765) 6 years ago

Trump’s comeback tweet wasnt in the same Ball Park as Krauthanmer’s epic takedown.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Agreed! I disagreed with Krauthammer in just about everything-from his support of the Iraq war in 2003 ( which he believed would end in 72 hours) to his unfounded criticism of Obama.

But he was 100% accurate on T-rump.

[–] filmtenk (765) 6 years ago

I recognize his face but I never heard him talk or read any of his stuff. I’m going to assume ignorance is bliss on this one. My S list of conservative bad actors is long enough.

[–] [email protected] (690) 6 years ago

When I used to read our local rag (newspaper) they would regularly print editorials from Mr. Krauthammer, along with many others (Brooks, Will, Goldberg, some of the left-leaning women, can't think of all of them right off). A fairly representative sample, from what I could tell.
I hated Krauthammer. I thought he was yet another smug conservative.
Didn't know he disapproved of Trump. Good for him ! RIP, Charles.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

My local paper occasionally carried his column as well. Every now and then I’d catch him on FOX while channel surfing. On TV he came across as arrogant and unpleasant.

I noticed FOX quietly pushed him aside and gave him less TV time since T-rump took over. Not sure if it was due to his cancer returning last summer, or his politics. But I continued to read his anti T-rump articles in the paper.

[–] brux (14724) 6 years ago

Krauty spent his entire life pining for something like Trump, yet when he came around, he was repulsed. Shows he understood nothing about what he was doing in life.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

I find it uplifting that certain prominent conservatives have had the courage to raise their voices against Trump and the putrid stain he's bringing to not only their movement, but to the Republican party that enables his contemptible leadership, and to the portion of the American voting public--Trump's "base"--who refuse to open their eyes to the misdeeds and incompetence being perpetrated by the current Administration.

Krauthammer is on the list of other honorable conservative thinkers such as Steve Schmidt and David Frum who have said "no" to Trump and all his vile, heartless, and mean-spirited attempts to further shape this country into a place that favors the needs and desires of the well-off and the entitled over the needs of the all. R.I.P. to him.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Very well said Sandoz!

Frum is another conservative voice I really enjoy/appreciate hearing on TV. Sensible and balanced in his arguments.

[–] TJLamb0518 (3316) 6 years ago

I just wish some of them who were not a - retiring or b - dying would stand up to this abomination to America.

[–] brux (14724) 6 years ago

The man was an idiot. He spent his entire life setting the country up for Trump, and then when a "Trump" came he pretended he had or wanted nothing to do with it. Conservatism leads directly to Trump and eventually much worse, and Krauthammer was a blind fool not to understand the meaning of his entire life ... but then I guess that is what you can expect from people who get admitted to Harvard and then play hookie from expansive and valuable class time and then dive into swimming pools with no water getting paralyzed.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He was old school Republican - molded under Reagan / Bush. He supported McCain and Romney, as they were traditional Republican. I don’t think he was ever ready nor preparing for circus clowns like T-rump or Palin.

[–] brux (14724) 6 years ago

That just shows me in bold terms that he did not really understand Conservatism and how it and Libertarianism are merely Trojan Horses for tyranny all along and this guy's mind was not critical or informed except on what his sources told him to say.

[–] FishGottoSwim (473) 6 years ago

My mother used to call political pundits on cable panel shows "talking hairdos." Even a bald guy like Steve Schmidt was a hairdo. He was a partisan guy providing the talking point of the day.

Krauthammer & Schmidt & Frum & Navarro & others who watched their party turn to Trump were responsible for Trump. I agree.

But when one of the talking hairdos steps out of talking point mode & into some semblance of sanity, I can appreciate it. I do appreciate it.

Still. They didn't speak out after Reagan secretly sold arms to the terrorists who had held Americans hostage? They didn't speak out after watching Trickle Down Economics fail - again? They didn't speak against their party when the Supreme Court stole a Presidential election or when the House Majority Leader stole a Supreme Court seat? They didn't protest when their party leaders lied us into a war that took hundreds of thousands of lives, costs billions or trillions of dollars & cost us the goodwill & respect of the world.

No. Nor did they speak out when the market started turning back around after the GLOBAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE & after unemployment started to drop. No. That's when those talking hairdos REALLY went to work. They started attacking the STATS. Remember their talking point during Obama's recovery? "But what about the people who have STOPPED looking for work?"

So let me channel my inner John McClane. I've been fighting GOP BS for years. Die Hard. So to Schmidt & Frum & Navarro & other former GOPricks I yell from a cracked window on the barricade "Welcome to the party, pals!"

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

At least he did some good before he died, by opposing Trump.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Indeed.

[–] brux (14724) 6 years ago

The whole Republican establishment said they opposed Trump, and now they are licking his boots.

The same thing in reverse with Obama. Obama had more Republican support than any Democrat ever did if you recall. Then when he was elected the Republicans pretended to hate him, while guiding his legislation to funnel money to the health care industry and defense. In terms of policies Obama could do more than any Republican.

The reality is that both parties are merely a distraction, a ritual, and the real policies are made by unelected people behind the scenes as they used to be, but even in a less democratic manner. The people know something is up, but to decide the answer is to vote for Trump and put that con man in the White House was the worst thinking ever on the part of the American people - merely puppets.

[–] slimone (7996) 6 years ago

I enjoyed watching him and his buddies on the Inside Washington TV show several years ago. It was nice to see people of opposite sides to discuss politics decently.