Bill Kristol, a leading Neo Con thinker, whatever that means, uncorks this gem in one of his early NYT columns:
The conservative establishment is strikingly hostile to Huckabee — for both good and bad reasons. But voters seem to be enjoying making up their own minds this year.See? isn't that cute. Voters, even Republican ones, want to make their own choice instead of being good little Christian soldiers for God and the Corporate Socialism they call Capitalism.
The point of the column is a tepid endorsement of Huckabee. I agree with Jim that this surprises me, but if he cements his wins in other states, staying in power will trump other concerns like principles or ideals for the Republican insiders. I think Kristol is seeing how well he likes holdinh his nose while he cheers for the Huckster from Hope.
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Some tasty snark from a Huff post blogger on Kristol at the Times.
"You pathetic pluralists think that facts and reason will always win out. Well, go ahead and keep thinking that. Lenin said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." If Lenin were around today, he'd say, "The liberals will pay us for the words with which we will poison them."
Link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/reading-bill-kristols-mi_b_80057.html
This is one of the reasons why I think it was a good move for the NYT to hire Kristol-the-younger as a columnist. I never would have gone to the WSJ (which you have to pay for) or The Weekly Standard to see what he has to say (what does that say about me?). Anyway, I found it was the first thing I wanted to look at when I opened the NYT on-line this morning. And my assumptions were sort of shot to hell. I thought Kristol would say practically anything to try to undermine Huckabee, who has gotten very little love from the Repub establishment (even from established R evangelicals like Dobson and established R bloviators like Limbaugh). So even though Kristol's is a very tepid endorsement, it was surprising.
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