Jeanne Kirkpatrick, RIP
As you read her 1984 GOP convention speech (from someone who, until a year after that speech, was a registered Democrat), substitute “fundamentalist Muslim” for “Soviet” in a few spots, and you’ll get an idea of both how brilliant she was, and how much we need more people like her now.
If form holds, most obits will ignore the two phrases she is best known for in describing the former allies who morphed into her opponents: “San Francisco Democrats” and “Blame America First.” (Update: It appears from a quick review of obits that most are including one or the other, but downplaying their signficance.)
