This is sad news indeed. He has been a lion of the conservative movement for many years. I have enjoyed his columns. One example of his writing: “In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-krauthammer-goes-out-like-gehrig-1528652464
That sucks. He did make it to his late 60s, so he lived quite a while. Especially considering the accident he lived a very full life.
I was sorry when I saw this on Friday, I always enjoyed listening to his take on things.
I’m very sorry to hear that. Always enjoyed reading his columns.
I didn’t agree with him about anything, but no one should have to die of cancer. I hope his passing is peaceful.
Krauthammer advocated for the Iraq war and supported the use of torture. I hope his final days are more peaceful than those of the victims of his ideology.
He wrote that he knew immediately what had happened when he hit the bottom of the pool, and he thought he was going to die right there, since he knew he couldn’t swim back to the surface. His companions figured out in time that something was wrong.
He still has time to repent on his deathbed, like Lee Atwater did.
Some men’s deaths diminish me less than others, though.
I give him credit for being on the Never Trump train, however little impact that may have had in the end.
I always feel guilty when I hear this kind of news about a person like that because my reaction is, “Who gives a damn?”
I always thought him an exceptional asshole - even by asshole standards. Was not at all unhappy to hear he is dying. Not sure I want him to suffer, but I’m not in the least saddened that he is dying.
He is no dummy, though, and was unafraid to satke out a position other conservatives would not: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-raise-the-gas-tax-a-lot/2015/01/08/5b4b407c-976f-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.30887d802d80
I certainly do not wish death on anyone and cancer sucks big time.
That said I will not miss him. He was a huge cheerleader for the war in Iraq, supported torture and more generally pushed American Exceptionalism as a foreign policy.
He did not make the world a better place.
Way OT, but for some reason, I always thought he was paralyzed in a mountaineering incident.
Indeed. I will take no joy in his passing and my sympathies will go to his family and friends, but - in public, at least - he was a reactionary asshole who advocated policies that actively harmed innocent people, and I will not mourn the loss of that.
RIP. 
Now who will continue his legacy of erudite, beautifully written torture apologia? Who will market unnecessary wars to those who find Rush Limbaugh a little beneath them?
The world is a better place.
Another Republican in hell.
ETA: womp womp.