Fareed Zakaria's intelligent commentary

Just listened to a reasonably intelligent commentary from Fareed Zakaria.

Although I'm sure some of you will challenge my saying this --- but Zakaria's background is actually conservative.
He Samuel Huntington (conservative political scientist), and was a member of Yale's "Party of the Right" (National Review
calls it one of the conservative world's most important groups). Granted - Zakaria endorsed President Obama's candidacy in 2008 -
but this guy is no a card-carrying liberal.


http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com ... pt=hp_tvbx

Maybe the word "intelligent" shouldn't be used in these circles.

I don't think the TEA Party has as much control as others here. When I actually went to the caucuses, Mitt won my district. Romney was the most liberal of those who ran. In fact, the ones who were the farthest to the right, finished pretty fast, like Bachmann.

The TEA Party is very influential and great at getting money and votes to their choices, like in 2010, but in 2012, the moderate GOP chose the nominee.

In the circle of this forum, "intellegence" is judged by whether or not you agree with it. Therefore you can hear the sound of chirping crickets when, for example, a conservative goes rogue.

Honestly I had some trouble understanding what the OP post was about. I think it helps to give a little more summary if you want people to read further and respond. JMO

If its a video, I rarely watch it, don't know if many others are the same.

appleannie wrote: In the circle of this forum, "intellegence" is judged by whether or not you agree with it. Therefore you can hear the sound of chirping crickets when, for example, a conservative goes rogue.

But not in the case of a liberal "going rogue" .. right? I've tried that and got dead silence. Andif Fareed is actually a conservative, what conservatives has he publically endorsed...ever?

LOL wrote: Honestly I had some trouble understanding what the OP post was about. I think it helps to give a little more summary if you want people to read further and respond. JMO

If its a video, I rarely watch it, don't know if many others are the same.

He makes the same points here .

Fareed has moved farther to the center or left (Or I have moved more to the right.) than when I first started reading him.

FH - the guy was a Hoover Institution scholar (a decade ago).

I think he's really in the laissez-faire camp when it comes to free trade (he has criticized Secretary Clinton and President Obama on that topic).

On domestic issues, he's more of a centrist.

appleannie wrote:

LOL wrote: Honestly I had some trouble understanding what the OP post was about. I think it helps to give a little more summary if you want people to read further and respond. JMO

If its a video, I rarely watch it, don't know if many others are the same.

He makes the same points here .

Thanks for the link, some good points about the party power vs. the candidate. This quote is debatable though: "But today’s Republican Party is organized around the proposition that, no matter the circumstances, there must never be a tax increase of any kind." There are different views on how best to increase "tax revenue" long term, vs. raising tax rates. Two different things. I don't agree with the Grover Norquist’s “no tax” pledge, nor do I agree with Obama's no tax pledge on the 95%, 98%, 99% whatever it is these days. Both sides are wrong.