The Albuquerque Journal has found another right-wing think tank guy to add to its Op-Ed pages. He's Victor David Hanson of the Hoover Institution.
Hanson's column today defends President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN. His defense is 1) that Bolton's lack of couresy should be no disqualifcation and 2) that Democrats opposing Bolton (Sens. Boxer, Biden and Dodd are cited) are hypocritical.
This tells me that he is intellectually dishonest.
First, because the oppostion to Bolton does not arise becvause he is a boor. Rather, it's because of reports that he tried to scare intelligence professionals into changing their recommendations to accord with his political desires.
Secondly, the reason the nomination is in trouble is not Democrats, hypocritical or not. It's Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where they have a majority, remember?
Op-Ed editors need conservatives and neos and all kinds of right-wing views, no doubt. I don't think they need more partisans pretneding otherwise, though.
When I write my newspaper columns, I question myself - am I searching for the truth of a situation or to score points for left-wing Democrats?
Based on today's column, Hanson doesn't waste time that way.