Charles Krauthammer Has Passed Away at 68, Rest in Peace

A CONSERVATIVE ICON PASSES AWAY …

Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author died Thursday at the age of 68. This one really hurts. Sadly this was not unexpected. Just a couple weeks ago Charles Krauthammer told the world that he only had weeks to live.  Krauthammer wrote, “My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.” Unfortunately, a great man has passed away and lost his battle with cancer. This one is personal. It’s not like a death in the family, it is family.

His commentary has brilliant, whether you agreed with him or not. He was not afraid to let you know his opinion.  And as a Conservative, I did not always agree with Charles, but I always respected him. That should be a lesson to America, we don’t always have to agree. Charles will be so missed, that I can’t even begin to put into words. With all that was against him in life dealing with his disability, Charles lived life to the fullest and accomplished so much. As Charles penned in his final letter to all of us, “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” Rest in Peace my friend.

His death had been expected after he wrote a heartbreaking letter to colleagues, friends and viewers on June 8 that said in part “I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me…

“Recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.” The letter continued, “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.”

In recent years, Krauthammer was best known for his nightly appearance as a panelist on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” and as a commentator on various Fox news shows.

Krauthammer delivered his views in a mild-mannered yet steady and almost philosophical style, befitting his background in psychiatry and detailed analysis of human behavior. Borrowing from that background, Krauthammer said in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that the post-Cold War world had gone from bipolar to “unipolar,” with the United States as the sole superpower. He also coined the term “The Reagan Doctrine,” among others.

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