We must never forget that little Billy on Fox-News--- echoing John Kerry--- called for ousting Sec Rummy. That says a lot about Billy's (gag) "conservatism."
It did not escape conservatives' notice that Kristol's gleeful public attack on Sec Rumsfield was a carefully constructed attack on Mr Bush, and on conservative thought. Billy's backstabbing Mr Bush and his administration was unconscionable.
Such undermining of a sitting president did not exist even in the flawed Clinton administration and certainly not to the degree approaching that visited on the current administration by Kristol, and the group that purports to be in its corner-----the neocon types.
It's always difficult to determine what motivation drives neocons' elliptical, convoluted thinking. Although Mummy and Daddy might have threatened to take away the magazine if Billy didn't Hurry Up and Do Something.
Kristol has been back stabbing GW during the election year of 2000, and he has continued.