I'll put George Will, Charles Krauthammer or Bill Krystal up against a liberal poser like Paul Krugman six days a week and twice on Sundays!
What's laughable is that we've had six years of "Progressive" policies that Paul Krugman has been the Head Cheerleader for and it's been an unmitigated disaster almost across the board. Now you're going to hold HIM up as an intellectual paragon? Really? The next thing you'll be attempting to do is propose that Barack Obama is one of the great "leaders" of the century!
If we had followed Krugman's recommendations following the Republican economic crash in 2008 the economy would be flourishing by now.
Bill Kristol has a track record of being 100% wrong on everything.
Bill Kristol A Timeline of Faulty Predictions - The Wire
That you would cite a hack like Kristol as being a rightwing intellect on a par with Buckley exposes your inability to comprehend what it means to be an intellectual. Buckley was someone who not only thought deeply about conservative issues and expressed them in a convincing manner but he was a gentleman too.
There is no one on the right who even comes close.
Krugman's a one trick pony...his solution to EVERYTHING is more government spending! Spend a trillion on stimulus and it didn't stimulate the economy? You needed to spend two trillion!!!
Are you really making the point that Kristol, Will and Krauthammer aren't "gentlemen"? Compare those three to the "intellectuals" on the Left these days and they epitomize the term.
You are flailing now.
Krugman's track record is better than any of your 3 partisan hacks.
Oh for god's sake! Are you kidding me? Krugman's "track record" is as bad as Larry Summers and Christina Romer's! They are all big government Keynesians who believe that you can spend your way out of any economic downturn. Krauthammer is a voice of reason in an intellectual "wasteland".