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By AnonymRich Lowry
A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
I do think - you look at actually what WikiLeaks came out with, most of it was just gossipy interest, except for like this Doug Band memo from a Clinton crony in black and white who explained the Clinton Foundation was a profit center for Bill Clinton and people around him.The Russians didn't make that up, that was all Hillary's [Clinton] vulnerability her own.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
I think likelier targets are [Steve] Mnuchin, the Treasury pick. When you look at his dealings during the financial crisis, that's going to be a target rich environment, and [Rex] Tillerson.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...
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By AnonymRich Lowry
It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].
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By AnonymRich Lowry
John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won't provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would indeed be impossible. Any successful American who is not a patriot is a rank ingrate.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that
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By AnonymRich Lowry
We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?
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By AnonymRich Lowry
When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.
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By AnonymRich Lowry
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
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