Political commentators Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke, together known as The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel, laid out a series of hot topics during their appearance at the Bakersfield Business Conference.
Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard in Washington, D.C., states that of all the countries that potentially could be a threat to the United States, Iraq is by far the most capable.
“There’s a criteria that singles out Saddam Hussein as an unusually evil leader. One, he has weapons of mass destruction and he’s developing more weapons of mass destruction, ” he said. “Two, he traffics with terrorists … and three, he is a madman.”
Barnes had an interesting take on California politics during the upcoming 2002 election.
“Gray Davis is most likely going to be re-elected,” he said. “I think of Gray Davis as Al Gore without the pizzazz.”
The Republican Party in California, according to Kondracke, is in even worst shape, especially since Arnold Schwarzenegger may be eyeing the governor’s office in 2006.
“All I have to say about ‘The Terminator’ is it demonstrates the pathetic condition of the Republican Party in the state of California.”