Maybe the Weekly Standard preferred someone who at least occasionally matches a stopped military clock in correctness?
Now he has more time to spend being wrong about everything with his family.
If he were wise he would simply retire completely, but we are talking about Bill Kristol.
He wasn’t a Trump backer.
An amazing record of always being wrong.
Stay hidden and less involved (but still involved) in order to attempt for the organization to still have some sway in the era of Trump? Capitulation?
The Weekly Standard will now begin its inevitable decline into journalistic mediocrity.
Boo hoo.
Weekly Standard was calling for the invasion of Iraq in the late 1990s. Then they brought Palin out of Alaska and somehow got John McCain to say he wanted her for his running mate. Will Kristol and McCain ever live that down?
Nope.
Does that mean what I think it means?
FIFY.
Be careful what you wish for.
This should have been the first tell.
Once the man who is almost wrong made it clear he opposes Trump, the latter pretty much became a karmic certainty.
He thought springing Sarah Palin onto the national scene would establish him as the prime mover in conservative politics for generations to come.
As Sarah herself would say … how’s that workin’ out for ya?
Palin found that out soon enough, so much so that she’s tried to get back into the game by criticizing him.
Buh bye, useful idiot.
The only upside to this whole Trump-brings-us-to-Fascism period, is to watch the rightwing injure each other in their greedy battle for power…not that many of us will survive to see the end of it.
Kristol personified the prime directive for pundits… you don’t have to be right, you just have to be interesting.
Loser seems too strong. Kristol did get Trump right but has otherwise been extremely economical with successful assessments. Let’s not forget his monumental failures on matters domestic. Sarah Palin belongs to him.