[Carolinamom]

Kristol is still miffed because the BushI administration didn't trust him. (BTW Didn't Kristol also room w/Alan Keyes during college....and Keyes took potshots at Bush2 right up to his election as I remember.)

[tirednvirginia]

Kristol was a bigtime McCain supporter. He wouldn't mind seeing Bush lose.

[EternalVigilance]

...and Keyes took potshots at Bush2 right up to his election as I remember

Your memory is faulty.

[CasearianDaoist]

Exactly. Kristol is a little boy, a spoiled and cosseted Upper East Side/Georgetown Brat who is flumoxed that the sort of man that he would like to have take him seriously, the sort of man that he would like to be, does not take him seriously at all.

Conservative politics was a sort of rebellion angaist his social circumstances. As it becomes more of a populist movement he moves away from it. He cannot find himself agree with a hardware store owner in Memphis, heaven forbid.

As Kerry apes J. F. Kennedy so Kristol apes Buckly but with out his patriotism, scruples, intelligence, erudition and concern for the Nation.

He is a narcissitic as Kerry. This appears to be a real Bommer problem in our elites.

Years ago he would have been another democrat intellectual, probably on a campus somewhere. The only reason he is not is that the Democrat party's leadership and cadres have moved so very far to the Left.