Posted by Randy Barnett:
Krauthammer Refuses to Jump Ship:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_10_19-2008_10_25.shtml#1224876264
No one can accuse Charles Krauthammer of not calling it the way he
sees it. Today he refused to join fellow conservative opinionators in
abandoning the McCain candidacy. His column, [1]McCain for President
starts this way:
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking
about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over
before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of
wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're
left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next
four years.
I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every
stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell),
genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist
(Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of
this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather
lose an election than lose my bearings.
This brought to mind Krauthammer's 2005 column, [2]Withdraw This
Nominee, which appeared in the Washington Post on Friday, October 7th,
following the announcement on Monday, October 3, of Harriet Miers
ill-fated Supreme Court nomination. Krauthammer's column along with
George Will's Washington Post column on Wednesday [3]Can This
Nomination be Justified? did a lot to preempt any rush of Republicans
to lock themselves in by publicly backing the nomination.
References
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302867.html
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601468_pf.html
3.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100400954.html
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