Bill O'Reilly is more of a populist than a serious conservative,
but I don't read many
conservative denunciations of him. Glenn Beck might get the
boot because he occasionally says things like this: John McCain
would have been worse than Barack Obama.
Hard to say, obviously, since McCain didn't become president. On
the plus side, a President McCain would have probably spent a
little less on the stimulus (though there would still have been
one) and pushed for some of the earmarks to be taken out, would
have retained the Mexico City policy, and would have appointed a
Supreme Court justice to the right of Sonia Sotomayor. On the
negative side, we might be at war in three countries
simultaneously, cap and trade would have been more likely to
pass, and there'd be more action on the amnesty front than the
occasional speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Personally, I'd like to know the outcome of the health care
debate and what we end up doing in the Middle East before making
such a pronouncement. But Beck's interview where he says the
unsayable is
here.
