[clearcarbon]

"There is a pool of ex-Republican voters (and conceivably, office holders) available to the Democratic party.

I assume that means a pool of ex-Republican office holders (and voters) that can be bought.

[Reily]

That pool isn’t wide enough or deep enough for a paramecium to do the backstroke !

Kristol writes for the Beltway, that’s almost his entire audience. He writes so he’ll be an acceptable “conservative commentator” on NPR talking head shows. He has no other following. He truly is a legend in his own mind.