Let me tell you something I discovered. Back during the first year of the Bush Administration, Kristol attacked Bush for getting those airmen released in the China spy plane incident. It really steamed me, so I wnet digging.
I found a book about the Bush 43 administration and discovered that Kristol was never trusted by them.
I also found that he was not originally Quayle’s chief of staff, but a lower-level employee who got promoted to the position when the original guy mysteriously left under some sort of possible (but never materialized) scandal.
Kristol was the one who encouraged Quayle to break from the administration and be his own man. He is the one who told Quayle he should make the Murphy Brown speech.
In Quayles autobiography he mentions that the Bush people wouldn’t let Kristol into the briefings for the campaign, and Quayle thought it was because Baker was intimidated by Kristol’s intellect. (This was so ridiculous that I decided it was a good thing Quayle had moved to private life.)
I am also convinced Kristol was instrumental in getting Jeffords to switch sides and tip the balance of the Senate, but that is based on deduction and not proof.
Kristol is playing on his own side, and has no loyalty or conservative beliefs at his core.
Kristol is a Neocon. Neocon beliefs aren’t close to Conservative beliefs. Liberals have been hiring Neocons to present an alternative to Liberalism that is not Conservativism for years.
The Chrystals of the world are who have told us to go moderate even though we never win w/moderates. Moderates by their nature are searching for leaders not other moderates.
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