Paul Campos
With the New Year’s execution of Saddam, the routing of Al Qaida in Somalia and now the hanging of Hussein’s top henchmen, 2007 is starting off to a pretty good start. Despite these positive developments, we can always count on Rocky Mountain News columnist, Paul Campos to find something to whine about (Commentary 1/16/07). Today, Campos takes on Bill Kristol, Editor of the Conservative national magazine, the Weekly Standard, all-star panelist on the leading cable news round table on television and now, a weekly columnist with Time Magazine. As to the specifics, of Campos’s charges against Kristol, I’ll leave those to Kristol himself to refute, but as to the timing of Campos’s rant I suggest the following: When Bill Kristol speaks to Conservatives on FOX News or in his own publication, the Standard, Campos could care less, but now that he’s earned access to a National liberal readership, Campos is afraid that he (and other liberals) will have to actually debate a well-reasoned Conservative viewpoint.
Rather than simply tearing down everything Republican or Conservative, lightweights like Campos, will now have to actually advance alternatives ideas and solutions. Forced to put up or shut up - my money is on Kristol.
Except for offering pointers on dieting, Paul Campos’s missives have yet to get anything right. He’s a college law professor that never writes about the law and alongside an intellectual giant, such as William Kristol, America will see that Campos isn’t qualified to bag Kristol’s groceries.
Dennis Goldman
Aurora
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I read Paul Campos; for Dennis Goldman to allude to Campos as a lightweight is name-calling. Civility means having respect for the other's opinion. Goldman's view is through lens colored by his own prejudice and bias aka common sense. His common sense is not more equal than others. Only Mother Nature's common sense exceeds in equality. Goldman invents a fury that is in error.
Posted by Richard Grimes on January 23, 2007 09:38 AMI can seldom stand to read Campos and his Boulder leftist thinking and agree with Dennis Goldman that Bill Kristol is intellectually beyond any commentary Campos offers. I cancelled Time years ago but would reconsider it to read Bill Kristol.
Posted by Ron Jones on January 23, 2007 10:14 AMI can't believe RMN gives Campos a pedestal to preach from, considering his affair with NAAFA.
Posted by on January 25, 2007 09:05 AM