Krauthammer's Take
On Rand Pauls remarks on the Civil Rights Act:
This is not going to sink him, but it is a negative. If on the
first day of the general election campaign you have to issue a
statement saying I'm not in favor of repealing the Civil Rights Act,
you have a problem. Why are you even discussing it?
There is a reason why in America libertarians are admired and
their ideas are current, but they get half a percent of the vote when
they actually want to govern. People don't want this purist
individualism actually in government.
And I think he should have had an easy answer saying: The Civil
Rights Act was one of the great achievements of our day and it made
our country enormously better in every way. But... our real problem
today, in part, [is that] because of the prestige that the federal
government acquired as a result of the success on civil rights, it
thought it could solve everything, and for the last 50 years we have
been injecting it in every area of life, and I'm saying it's not the
way to approach things.
But to actually debate the first principles about desegregation on
day one of the campaign, this is a huge unforced error.
On Dennis Blairs resignation as director of national intelligence:
Remember when Abdulmutallab was captured in Detroit for trying to
blow up the airplane, he was questioned for less than an hour, then he
got his Miranda rights, and he said nothing for over a month. After
that, the family arrived, he started talking.
At that point, the administration began leaking a lot of the
information as a way to undo the political damage because it had
taken a lot of attacks (in that month when he wasn't saying anything)
for actually Mirandizing him and losing potentially important
information about the terrorists he was with in Yemen.
So, once he started talking there were all kind of stories about
his connections with Yemen, etc. What you heard Blair talking about
was how dismayed he was by all those leaks, because if youre in
intelligence and youre getting all this information, you don't want
it to be publicized in a way that our enemies in Yemen are going to
hear about it and take measures . . .
So, this was a fairly strong attack on the White House for using
intelligence as a way to tart up its political position which had
been damaged by the Mirandizing issue and to actually jeopardize
American national security.
Even though he said it in fractured syntax, it was a very strong
message and I think it really hurt his standing inside the Whit
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