Category: Awards

"One can scan the list of leading appointments (including Mr. Obama's two chiefs of staff, one a former congressman and the other a former Clinton cabinet officer) without finding a single example—not one—of the sort of wild-eyed, revolutionary intellectual frequently cited by right-wing critics. Yes, a record of business leadership in the private sector is sorely lacking within the Obama team, but so is any history of militant socialist scheming.

Republicans need not despair that President Obama fails to conform to the hackneyed (if groundless) charges of radicalism. They will find the president easier to beat when they re-adjust their attacks to portray him as typical rather than radical," – Michael Medved.

“If NATO (the U.S. Sixth Fleet in practice) can’t take out Libyan air defenses at no or minimal cost, we should all start studying Arabic and spending an hour a day with our foreheads pressed to the floor,” – Conrad Black.

On the extreme-right radio show with Bryan Fischer, the conversation goes thus:

Fischer: “And so I’d like you to comment on that. You seem to think that there is some validity to the fact that there may be some fundamental anti-Americanism in this president.”

Huckabee: “Well, that’s exactly the point that I make in the book. And I don’t know why these reporters — maybe they can’t read… And I have said many times publicly, that I do think [president Obama] has a different worldview and I think it’s, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas.”

And so we know where the GOP campaign is going, don’t we? Rotary Clubs or Madrassas? That’s the choice they want the voters to make in 2012. It’s all they got.

“I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. … If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather,” – Mike Huckabee.

"Our tough fight with the Obama administration shows that it was not keen on letting the American people know that Ted Kennedy, one of Obama’s leftist politician heroes, liked to hang out with communists and prostitutes,” – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

"None of the feminists' goals, including the Equal Rights Amendment, offered women a single benefit they didn't have before, zip. But it would have taken away a lot of the rights and benefits women then possessed such as the right to be exempt from the military and the right of a wife to be supported by her husband. Feminists demeaned marriage and motherhood even though most women want marriage and motherhood. Feminism has run its course, and surveys show that women are not as happy now as they were in the 1950s," – Phyllis Schlafly, co-author of The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – And Men Can't Say.

"The DOMA simply makes more explicit the government's obligation to secure the Creator-endowed unalienable rights of the natural family. This obligation precludes government from fabricating other rights that impair them. In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves," – Alan Keyes.

"Each time I write a post critical of Fox News host Glenn Beck, scores of conservatives e-mail and comment here at Right Turn that he's 'not as bad' as the left portrays him and that, besides, there are worse figures on the left. The 'left is worse' argument doesn't fly. Listen, I am never shy about pointing out hypocrisy by the left — as I did in response to an anti-Beck letter organized by Jewish Funds for Justice. But the argument that 'the other side is worse' is not an argument that justifies Beck's conduct. So what should thoughtful conservatives do? I've said it before, but it is especially relevant here: Police their own side," – Jennifer Rubin.

"What ought to worry conservatives in particular is that Beck not only has the unusual capacity to discredit virtually every cause he takes up; he also confirms the worst caricatures of the right. What was true before is doubly true today. It looks to me like it’s only a matter of time — and I suspect not much time — until he blows apart professionally. If and when that happens, one can only hope that conservatism as a movement will have created enough distance from Beck to mitigate the damage," – Pete Wehner, Commentary.