Comments on: Remembering the Right http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog @TAC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick James http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/remembering-the-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7390 Rick James Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:26:42 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?page_id=1921#comment-7390 Permit me to concur with Mr. Thomas and Mr. Moore. For what it's worth, Jeffrey Hart's contributions to conservative commentary are well behind him, and he does indeed come across as a bitter, old crank. Elsewhere, he wrote most condescendingly of WFBjr's recent friendship with Rush Limbaugh, describing most snidely how the heavyweight Limbaugh would sit in the more delicate chairs in the Buckley apartment, and what surely would have been the apoplectic reaction of Mrs. Buckley were Limbaugh to have imploded one of said chairs. For Hart to waste keystrokes on such a subject shows that he is no longer to be taken seriously. Permit me to concur with Mr. Thomas and Mr. Moore. For what it’s worth, Jeffrey Hart’s contributions to conservative commentary are well behind him, and he does indeed come across as a bitter, old crank. Elsewhere, he wrote most condescendingly of WFBjr’s recent friendship with Rush Limbaugh, describing most snidely how the heavyweight Limbaugh would sit in the more delicate chairs in the Buckley apartment, and what surely would have been the apoplectic reaction of Mrs. Buckley were Limbaugh to have imploded one of said chairs. For Hart to waste keystrokes on such a subject shows that he is no longer to be taken seriously.

]]> By: Thomas Moore http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/remembering-the-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7371 Thomas Moore Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:39:16 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?page_id=1921#comment-7371 I agree with Mr. Thomas, I came here from National Review's Brookhiser blog looking forward to a book review. Instead I got Bush-bashing nonsense, and little substantively on a book that from all other accounts is quite fascinating. As for the Tanenhaus quote, every statement is measurably wrong. Referring to Bush's two terms as a failure is laughable (economic growth for 6 of 8 years including coming into a recession and dealing with the fallout from 9/11 which collapsed several industries); a "unilateral" foreign policy that involved other countries and the blessing of the U.N. virtually every step of the way; "blind faith in a deregulated Wall Street-centric market" by overregulating the industry and imposing demands of the mortgage market to make loans to those who could not pay them back or be labeled racist; "the harshly punitive “culture war” waged against liberal “elites” " that left Hollywood and the Left in greater power than ever; and the "hapless defender in John McCain" who demanded that noone use the middle name of his campaign rival and called his own staff racist, allowed his staff to throw his own VP pick under the bus, and wanted the love of those who hated him. This was a waste of a column. That I would spend this much time complaining strikes me more than it ever will the author, which is the point. I shall not return. I agree with Mr. Thomas,

I came here from National Review’s Brookhiser blog looking forward to a book review.

Instead I got Bush-bashing nonsense, and little substantively on a book that from all other accounts is quite fascinating.

As for the Tanenhaus quote, every statement is measurably wrong. Referring to Bush’s two terms as a failure is laughable (economic growth for 6 of 8 years including coming into a recession and dealing with the fallout from 9/11 which collapsed several industries); a “unilateral” foreign policy that involved other countries and the blessing of the U.N. virtually every step of the way; “blind faith in a deregulated Wall Street-centric market” by overregulating the industry and imposing demands of the mortgage market to make loans to those who could not pay them back or be labeled racist;
“the harshly punitive “culture war” waged against liberal “elites” ” that left Hollywood and the Left in greater power than ever; and the “hapless defender in John McCain” who demanded that noone use the middle name of his campaign rival and called his own staff racist, allowed his staff to throw his own VP pick under the bus, and wanted the love of those who hated him.

This was a waste of a column. That I would spend this much time complaining strikes me more than it ever will the author, which is the point.

I shall not return.

]]> By: Scott Thomas http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/remembering-the-right/comment-page-1/#comment-7350 Scott Thomas Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:59:44 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?page_id=1921#comment-7350 I enjoyed this book and, when I learned Mr. Hart had written a review, was looking forward to his insights. Instead, like the paranoid crank next door who turns all conversations to black helicopters and the CFR, all I got was Mr. Hart's harangue about Iraq. Thanks for nothing. Scott I enjoyed this book and, when I learned Mr. Hart had written a review, was looking forward to his insights. Instead, like the paranoid crank next door who turns all conversations to black helicopters and the CFR, all I got was Mr. Hart’s harangue about Iraq. Thanks for nothing.

Scott

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