Billy just because you described yourself does not mean every American is like you rat boy.
Mexico has a small cadre of wealthy ‘elites’ and a large mass of horribly poor citizens who dream of escaping - - same configuration as most of the world’s hellholes.
That’s how Bill Kristol wants to live - at the top of a hellhole.
What a jerk.
This is the mindset of the elites across the political spectrum.
An elitist prat.
Does he believe Israel would benefit from a similar immigration policy?
Billy Boy, is an IDIOT!
Kristol sure appears to be lazy and white to me. I’m sure there are hungry young Conservative writers who are hard working and black who could easily replace him.
Hey Bill.....you are going to be replaced long before the backbone of America will be. ESAD commie bastard.
Speaking from his posh east sie apartment in upper Manhattan where his toilet bowl is mad of GOLD, FU
On his next cruise someone needs to throw him overboard.
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Bill should be replaced with a more conservative socialist.
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Kristol belongs in Gitmo
I think his point is that immigrants (white or otherwise) have traditionally been hungrier when they first get here and thus work harder.
I don’t think it’s an unfair generalization.
And even though I’m strongly against illegal migration (for rule of law reasons), I believe that the illegals and their descendents here will eventually be very successful simply because of the genes they possess that gave them the initiative, toughness, smarts, and hard work to overcome the obstacles in front of them.
Any Freeper that agrees in any way with Kristol needs to be zotted. This should be a zot thread.
Right after Barack Obama was elected for his first term, bill kristol went on TV very prominently and declared:
“the era of Reagan is over”
he said it clear as a bell and he was giddy about it.
Guillotines are beautiful things.
I have detested Kristol for a very long time. Whenever I saw him on TV he had that smarmy, I know everything and am superior to all of you, look and smile.
Kristol is a low-life human who is an elitist who thinks we should all be his serfs and beg for scraps from him and his friends. He runs around telling the nation that he and his buddies are the real conservatives but they are really so far against our Constitution, freedom, and liberty they side with the autocrats.
If Kristol had even a modicum of common sense--let alone a modicum of common decency, after his virulent campaign against Donald Trump--he would realize how inappropriate are these comments from any "journalist" claiming to be an American. President Trump was better off with Kristol's hatred than his support.
Does Fred Barnes still hang out with this lunatic?
I’m not sure what the big deal is about this. Open borders was the mainstream conservative position from about 1997 until about 2015.
The only thing Bill Kristol is guilty of here is not changing his mind. If Bill Kristol should face the firing squad for wanting high levels of immigration, so should everyone who voted for Dubya.
Conservatives had several chances to follow paleocons like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul who would have reduced immigration and they overwhelmingly chose to support neocons and their allies who favored open borders. People weren’t even allowed to praise Pat Buchanan on FR back in the late 90’s. All the Buchanan supporters were banned and they even had whole forums for paleocons purged from FR.
There are a lot of Johnny come lately’s running around now freaking out about immigration, where were they 20-25 years ago when the problem was just getting out of control and could have been stopped more easily? Back in the 90’s a lot of Democrats and liberals favored less immigration, usually on economic grounds. It was the Gingrich Congress that blocked bi-partisan immigration reform(back when reform meant restriction) legislation that had been already written and that Clinton would have signed.
Look up the Barbara Jordan Commission and some of Bill’s speeches around 1995-96 if you don’t believe me. I remember when lowering immigration was a mainstream position in the liberal media. In the first half of the 1990’s publicans like the Atlantic discussed its merits and lots of liberal TV news and newspapers had coverage of immigration, especially illegal immigration, that was very critical. At the time, it was the Wall St. Journal and Commentary magazine that were pushing the real hardcore open borders propaganda, not the center left. The New York Times editorialized against amnesty for illegals as recently as 2000, the same year conservatives elected a hardcore amnesty extremist to President.
Conservatives need to do a lot of soul searching about the movement’s failure to take reasonable positions on immigration over the years.