David Keene
David Keene
David A. Keeneis an American political consultant, former Presidential advisor, and newspaper editor, currently the Opinion Editor of The Washington Times. Keene was the president of the National Rifle Association for the traditional two one-year terms from 2011 to 2013. From 1984 to 2011, he was the chairman of the American Conservative Union. Keene has worked for the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Robert Dole, and Mitt Romney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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This is the dangerous side of what's going on.
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I don't think that he's made much of an impression outside Washington as a strong leader.
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But we are happy to acquire technologies where they help us fill out the pieces of the stack that we can plug in, without causing problems for our development team or customers.
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George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.
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I'm 57, and I was the youngest person there. Everybody grew up and went away.
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If he (Bush) comes up with a winnable conservative nominee, even if that person faces a fight in Congress, he will have drawn his people back to him.
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I do think that a lot of Americans are saying that in pursuing his perfectly legitimate mission to protect us from terrorism, is the president forgetting some of the safeguards that we would hope he would not forget.
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They like Bush. But they are frustrated and disappointed with some things the administration has done. And the frustration is deep because government spending and growth of government are at the core of beliefs of many people here.
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It is the most politically volatile issue out there. What Bush has done is not really change the program. He's always had border control in it. But now he has put border security first, rather than as an afterthought. And I think that makes it more salable.
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Their argument is extremely dangerous in the long term because it can be used to justify all kinds of things that I'm sure neither the president nor the attorney general has thought about. ...The American system was set up on the assumption that you can't rely on the good will of people with power.
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The electorate on which they depend is getting more and more frustrated. If turnout drops 1.5 percent, that's a big deal.
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I think the president has created political trouble for himself. She may turn out to be a great judge ... but my own reaction to it is that it is not my fight, and I think that's the way that most conservatives feel about it.
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Big government conservatism is an oxymoron. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson built public housing. Now it looks like we will build trailer parks. This will be defining, in the sense that the neo-cons will end up saying government can do this. The real hero of these people is FDR. I don't happen to believe any of this will work. You can't rebuild New Orleans society.
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Bush's compassionate conservatism has morphed into big government conservatism, and that isn't what the base is looking for. The White House and the congressional leadership have got to reinvigorate the Republican base. In off-year elections ... if your base isn't energized, particularly in a relatively evenly divided electorate, you've got more problems than you think you have.