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The Donkeys Crack the Whip

By Michael Weiss
Posted Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at 4:32 PM ET

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Neocon gone: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's former U.N. ambassador and a guiding light of neoconservatism, has died at the age of 80. Even bloggers who didn't share Kirkpatrick's politics remember her as tough woman in the boys' club of Washington.

Conservative Carol Platt Liebau eulogizes the former ambassador: "Her speech to the 1984 Republican convention that renominated incumbent President Reagan became famous for its candor and its moral clarity. The 'Kirkpatrick doctrine' helped in no small part to bring the end of the Soviet Union about. Jeane Kirkpatrick was a patriot to the core."

Catholic blogger Miss Kelly "didn't share her politics." Nonetheless, "[s]he was a smart, tough lady, firm in her beliefs and with sound logic to her arguments. The lady stood her ground. I watched her one morning in the early 80's on a Sunday morning talk shows, where she was badgered and insulted by four men on the panel. She didn't flinch for a second. She was composed, unwavering and thoughtful, in contrast to her belligerent attackers. Her deft parrying and verbal fencing was something to see!"

Read more about Kirkpatrick's death.

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