[Prost1]

"Kristol wouldn't know a real conservative if he/she kicked him in the ass."

He certainly isn't daddy's boy. Bill is out to make headlines and he doesn't care about ideology if he gets his name in the papers and his face on TV.

Just IMO, of course!

[Cautor]

I think you hit it. Kristol owes his--very good--living to being a Beltway-buzz boy. Sitting in the green room is how he makes his green. Of course he has a huge ego and like all talking heads wants his views accepted by the Washington pols. Personally, I can barely stomach him.