I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair. Jonah Goldberg More Quotes by Jonah Goldberg More Quotes From Jonah Goldberg Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others. Jonah Goldberg bait legacy trying If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. Jonah Goldberg rome baseball christian We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. Jonah Goldberg trying reality way The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime. Jonah Goldberg iraq politics years Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president. Jonah Goldberg spy guilt president Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! 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It was to serve as sort of a place to park lugubrious sycophants like Sidney Blumenthal and other henchman, a place to serve as a super PAC, a place park her campaign while they were a government in exile Jonah Goldberg clinton good-work reason The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media controversy in a negative way than allow the limelight to move to Hillary Clinton and let her actually take heat in the public - in a public arena. And it just sucks up all of the oxygen. Jonah Goldberg negative moving thinking When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry. Jonah Goldberg team jobs thinking Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things. Jonah Goldberg bigs example writing Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending slavery or Jim Crow. They're actually about maximizing freedom. Jonah Goldberg crow office rights Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods. Jonah Goldberg goods competing choices A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans. Jonah Goldberg fans president needs Were having a massive wealth transfer from young people to old people, its not sustainable, its got to be ripped up from the ground up. Jonah Goldberg politics Its going to be a lot easier to fix these programs with a good economy like the one we have right now. Jonah Goldberg politics I think you can never rule out incompetence as an explanation for anything in Washington. Jonah Goldberg politics The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. Jonah Goldberg about difference like honest And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible. Jonah Goldberg good think tough football
