re: #5 LGoPs

I love CK’s clarity. he cuts through all the BS.

From Jay Nordlinger in National Review’s The Corner Online earlier today:

Back in the early 1990s, I said this about Charles Krauthammer as columnist: “The thing is, you can hold up a Krauthammer column and say, ‘Here it is. This is it. This is what I believe, in a nutshell. This is the case I would make, had I the ability.’” A Krauthammer column gave you something to wave. A document to nail to a door, so to speak. A friend or acquaintance would say to you, “What do you believe about this issue, and why?” And you could hand him a Krauthammer column, saying, “Here.”

In fact, that is the highest value of any columnist, don’t you think? He crystallizes your own thought. (Then again, he could make you reexamine.)

All of this came to mind when I read Krauthammer’s column published today, on torture: here. It makes you say, “Yep — that’s it.” At least it makes me say that. I also thought of George W. Bush. He said, on at least one occasion, “You never get credit for what didn’t happen” — e.g., further terror attacks on your country.