Posted by
Ed Lilly on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:14:51 PM
I listened to a conversation between talk radio host Dennis Praeger and Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal. You can hear this portion of the radio program here. The program was broadcast on January 16, so before many of the people seeking party presidential nominations dropped out of the race. Praeger had Ms. Rabinowitz on because she support John McCain’s candidacy, and Praeger sought to have her convince him of why he should support McCain in the event McCain is the Republican nominee.
Ms. Rabinowitz has written fine columns for the WSJ, and I’ve admired her columns for many years. My recollection of her work is that she is thorough, sober and persuasive in her writing. So I was surprisingly disappointed that she had nothing of substance to say to try to convince Mr. Praeger why she thinks John McCain is the best candidate in the Republican presidential field.
What I took from the conversation was that Ms. Rabinowitz supports McCain because, while she disagrees with him on almost every domestic policy issue, at least McCain wants to win the war against the Islamists. As far as distinguishing McCain from any of the other Republican candidates, Ms. Rabinowitz seems to have succumbed to the flip side of the Cult of Obama. McCain’s unrelenting and unyielding will and belief in his own correctness appears to be all Ms. Rabinowitz can say in his favor.
So after telling Praeger that she believes even the Democrat candidates would do the right thing and defend the country if they really thought we were losing to, or in danger from, the Islamofascists, for the life of me I can’t figure out how Ms. Rabinowitz supports McCain rather than any Democrat candidate. She already doesn’t agree with McCain’s domestic policy positions. She doesn’t think a Democrat candidate would fail to defend the American people. What am I missing?