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Now we know Palin has no chance in '12: Kristol--who first discovered her--turns on her
Salon's War Room ^ | February 8, 2011 | Justin Elliott

Posted on 02/08/2011 4:48:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 02/08/2011 7:36:06 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Bill Kristol, the influential Weekly Standard editor, is a famously opportunistic pundit. So it's very bad news for Sarah Palin that even Kristol appears to have given up on a Palin presidential campaign this year.

Kristol went out of his way on MSNBC this morning to express disappointment with Palin, a striking shift for a man who has been Palin's most prominent champion in the press since he met her on a cruise in Alaska in 2007.


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This is like the ten thousandth time they've written her political obituary. Don't they ever learn?
1 posted on 02/08/2011 4:48:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mitt Romney’s check cleared?


2 posted on 02/08/2011 4:49:53 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL at anything from Salon.com..bunch of lunatic liberal freaks over there...oh and Bill Kristol I’m sorry he is NO Conservative..he is the same guy bashing Beck saying he is wrong about Code Pink and the Muslim Brotherhood


3 posted on 02/08/2011 4:50:34 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bill Kristol is just another inside-the-beltway Conservative bar fly.


4 posted on 02/08/2011 4:52:56 PM PST by AdaGray
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Bill Kristol I’m sorry he is NO Conservative.

Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer seem to flee from those who unapologetically stand for true Christian morality.

5 posted on 02/08/2011 4:55:04 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article lists “conservative pundits”:

Bill Kristol
Charles Krauthammer
Karl Rove

Need I say more?


6 posted on 02/08/2011 4:56:32 PM PST by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why would Palin want to be president anyway? It's a crappy job with both sides taking cheap shots at you and the MSM twisting the facts to make you look bad.
She is making lots of money right now and doesn't have to stay up nights worrying about making difficult decisions.
7 posted on 02/08/2011 4:57:14 PM PST by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meh...

No problem. She is a force of nature now. Nothing will stop her.

My wife was studying for her Bible group today. The subject was Abraham, Sarah, Isaiah and Ishmael.

I was biting my tongue, wanting to chime in on the coincidence that there is another Sarah who is poised to battle the children of Ishmael.


8 posted on 02/08/2011 4:58:48 PM PST by turfmann
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To: re_nortex

What is even funnier is how these liberal assclowns say that the GOP is turning on her..guess what..NO ONE in the GOP ever defended this woman..from the moment that she was announced as McCain’s running mate, did anyone from the GOP ever stand up and defend her against all of the lies and slander..of course not..she didn’t need those fools then and she doesn’t need them now..oh, and ANYONE and I mean ANYONE that can go on MSNBC I cannot respect..I am sick and tired of these so-called Conservatives coddling up to Dems


9 posted on 02/08/2011 4:58:58 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
because of her widely panned video response to the tragedy
Her response TO THE MEDIA was very critical OF THE MEDIA and then was "widely panned" BY THE MEDIA.
10 posted on 02/08/2011 4:59:58 PM PST by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like Bill is just begging for Sarah to come sweep him off his feet again. I too want to hear more of her serious, policy-wonk side in a campaign, so I understand his eagerness.


11 posted on 02/08/2011 5:01:44 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obsessive-Palin disorder (OPD) is an anxiety disorder in which liberal media members have unwanted and repeated thoughts of telling themselves that Sarah Palin has no shot at the presidency.

Often the leftist shill carries out the behaviors to get rid of the obsessive thoughts by making up stories about Ms Palin. But this only provides temporary relief. Not writing Palin hit pieces can cause great anxiety. A liberal’s level of OPD can be anywhere from mild to severe, but if severe and left untreated, it can destroy a person’s capacity to function.


12 posted on 02/08/2011 5:02:35 PM PST by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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Bingo.

Bill Kristol has been savaging Palin for weeks in the Weekly Standard.

He has been saying that "He never realized she was so stupid"...
13 posted on 02/08/2011 5:02:53 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is the matter with this fool?? Typical Beltway Lizard!


14 posted on 02/08/2011 5:03:08 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: oldbrowser

“Why would Palin want to be president anyway?”

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I dunno.....maybe because she loves her country and is disgusted at the Communists, who are destroying it?


15 posted on 02/08/2011 5:05:45 PM PST by EyeGuy (Gimme Shelter)
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To: 9YearLurker
She Tweeted something about "death panels" and nearly stopped ObamaCare in its tracks. There are dozens of other examples. No one gets elected to a governorship in this country without knowing policy, especially if their name isn't Kennedy or Bush.
16 posted on 02/08/2011 5:05:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Lincoln)
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WOW what an a-hole..so stupid for what..what the hell has she said that is “so stupid” I haven’t heard her say one stupid thing..she has slammed Obama left and right for the crap he has done. It’s “Friends” like Kristol that makes Sarah’s enemies look good. You know what’s a real shame, Sarah Palin gets up in the morning, looks around, and sees she has NO ONE in the GOP that will be there for her, not one single person. I wonder, if Reagan were still alive, would anyone in the GOP defend him or just call him a moron and walk away


17 posted on 02/08/2011 5:06:25 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Oh no, a neocon elitist insider doesn't like Palin anymore?

Whatever shall we do?

I would wear Kristol's disapproval as a badge of honor...

18 posted on 02/08/2011 5:07:46 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let me make it crystal clear. Krystal is NO conservative.


19 posted on 02/08/2011 5:08:40 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: AdaGray

This is Salon’s poisonous spin on an interview I heard differently.

I was watching the Morning Blow show today ‘cause I heard Kristol and Rand Paul were going to be on (Rand Paul was terrific).

Kristol, as is pretty obvious, isn’t a movement conservative. But his answer was in followup to some thuggish b.s. by the giant turdpile John Heileman who wanted Kristol to renounce all the Republicans who were “crazy” and unqualified etc. etc.

Kristol is not a streetfighter either. But he refused to accede to the Morning Joe gang (he was there to plug a book of his dad’s essays) and while he did express disappointment in Sarah he said not only that she was shrewd but that she was young and very bright and had more elections ahead of her.

I think he was right in saying that after Sarah left the governorship she was beautifully positioned to define herself and to lay out some key policy positions that might have helped carry her forward.

But he’s right, she is young, and she keeps her own counsel, and sometimes those qualities cut both ways.

Kristol recognized Sarah’s brilliance very early on and he stood up for her then and has stuck with her far beyond most in his set——who are PUNDITS not politicians, not activists, not campaigners.

Yes, Kristol has some of the opportunist in him too but he hasn’t done wrong by Sarah. The media onslaught against SP has scared away many who view themselves as made of much tougher stuff than he.


20 posted on 02/08/2011 5:10:09 PM PST by dblup
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