Posted on 09/23/2012 10:23:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I keep hearing a lot of moaning at the bar from the right wing; most notably from Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. It seems like every time I see this guy, whom I refer to as “The Wincer” because he always looks like he thinks he’s about to be slugged, he’s going off on Mitt Romney. No matter what Romney says or does, Kristol and a few of his fellow ivory tower pinheads can’t wait to dissect it, as if they’re performing the world’s longest autopsy.
I’ll admit that Romney doesn’t always say things in the best way possible, and that his attempts at humor often bring the term “lead balloon” to mind. But he’s entitled to goof occasionally. Heck, he’s been on the campaign trail for what must seem like an eternity to him, and a bit longer than that to me. But the bone I’d pick with Kristol is that until the debates, Romney isn’t going to have a chance to go toe-to-toe with Obama. Every single thing Obama says will be filtered through the media until it shines like gold. Everything out of Romney’s mouth is going to be slathered with mud. That’s no excuse for conservatives to pile on, as though jockeying for an invitation to MSNBC’s Christmas bash.
I keep hearing that Obama will win the debates. The same people who believe that must also assume that Joe Biden will put Paul Ryan in his place. I will simply remind one and all that after Romney got the hang of debates, he even began getting the best of Newt Gingrich. And anyone who believes that Obama is smarter, sharper or funnier than Gingrich needs to have his head examined...
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Throw in a little condemnation of his own supposed-compadres, and you have a DC elitist who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of understanding real Americans and what their problems are. He is comfortable in his DC community standing as a token conservative Sunday Media voice. He is comfortable because he still gets invited to parties and functions thrown by liberals because he's "one of the good ones." If I were to meet the appeasing, backbiting little pissant in person, I'd probably deck his ass.
Anyone who has ever been to Fire Island, Key West or Jackson Heights has dirty pictures of Shep.
His eye makeup is a dead give away.
Has the weekly standard ever made a profit (I’ve never bought 1)
...Reagan wouldn't read them now, he would call them seditious to the conservative cause.
All networks have their “experts”, and most, if not all, have a background in politics or journalism. Journalists are not experts anymore than pool cleaners are, and if the ones who have a background in politics were uber smart, then why are we 16 trillion in debt?
When politicians balance the budget every year, and pay off our debt, then they should feel free to enter into a career in punditry but until then, they need to STFU and go into hiding.
Same here. There is better conservative thought available than those two magazines. History passed them by. And Bill Kristol is a colossal douchebag.
One is nausea but two is projectile vomiting!
He’s either some male executive’s lover or nephew. Or both.
“With friends like that, who needs enemas.”
He seems to be part of this insufferable group of fogies, that came on the scene in the 80s and early 90s, that somehow still passes for conservative.
You mean there are no other real conservative talking-heads, younger than 55, that can be on these shows?
Bill Kristol is to conservatism what Elton John is to heterosexuality...
Years ago I was hooked on American Spectator then they changed their format completely. I think they did a comeback with the old format - does anyone read it anymore?
We have Bill Kristol to thank for Mitt Romney to begin with. His discomfort at this point is playing for the world smallest violin.
Shep makes well north of $10 million dollars a year, plus a Cadillac benefit package. The only people at FNC who make more are Sean Hannity and Ted Baxter. He can afford his own medications.
Do we?
My understanding is that he was looking for an alternative to Romney during the primaries and promoting Gingrich and Santorum for a while.
Kristol may have looked to Romney in 2008 as an alternative to McCain, but he certainly wasn't in Romney's camp this primary season.
Mr. Kristol also “discovered” Governor Sarah Palin and convinced Senator McCain to make her his running mate.
So true!
Romney may be a RINO, but he's not one of the 'beltway boys', so he's suspect.
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