Jonathan Chait-->He's a confirmed Leftist/Socialist and keeps bleeting the same thing all the time....
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[KLP Note: This gal makes lots of sense ....]
9/24/03 [Wednesday]
[Carol Platt Liebau] 5:40 am
Debate Watch/Frothy Chait: Pull up a chair, and pop up the corn. Although tonight's debate may ultimately have little impact on the outcome of the race, but it is shaping up to be a political sporting event second to none. Obviously, what everyone will be watching for is how Arnold handles himself. If he does well, calls for Tom McClintock to withdraw will grow; if he stumbles, McClintock supporters will stand by their man, and Republican infighting will continue and deepen. | In other matters, Hugh Hewitt has taken the lead in pointing out the foaming-at-the-mouth article by Jonathan Chait on the New Republic site. The piece is almost laughable in its hysterical disregard for the truth. Correct me if I'm wrong, but did any reputable center-right magazine ever publish such a fact-free, hate-filled rant about President Clinton? Chait works hard to justify his irrational hatred of President Bush -- and fails. He seems to find President Bush an affront to the concept of "meritocracy" (which, presumably, he exemplifies). But it's easy to see what self-appointed "meritocrats" (who, incidentally, support quotas limiting the number of high-achieving Asian students at elite California Universities) detest most about President Bush, and it is this: President Bush doesn't care what they think of him, and he thinks of them not at all. I have met a lot of lefties like Chait -- they often populate Ivy League campuses. Just by virtue of attending a selective university, they develop a penchant to think of themselves as "nature's royalty," uniquely significant, the best and the brightest, their views unquestionably influential. For a president to be so unconcerned by, even dismissive of, all they stand for . . . well, it just drives them crazy. If President Bush hated them, that would be OK. At least they'd matter. But the President's attitude just reminds them of their true importance in the grand scheme of things -- that they don't really matter at all. That's a truth they simply can't handle.
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