Kristol is hedging his bets. He must be getting serious heat from people who have power and do not like Romney. Either that or the internals show Romney in trouble and Kristol wants to save the viability of his milquetoast magazine.
But make no mistake, Kristol is totally in the bag for Romney.
“But make no mistake, Kristol is totally in the bag for Romney.”
Kristol epitomizes the weakly standard GOP of the past twenty years.
No, he’s probably not in the bag for Romney. Mitt Romney has been running for years now, ever since the last election and, as another Freeper pointed out, at least from 2006.
Romney has his personal fortune and since he “declared” his candidacy years ago, he has been able to collect big bucks without any competitors. And because he’s essentially the Mormon version of Obama, the press is simply ignoring him, not attacking or examining him, and relying on the fact that few GOPers and even fewer independents will vote for him. This means that their baby, Obama, will be reelected by a landslide.
You may not agree with Kristol on a lot of things, and neither do I, but many of his positions actually are conservative, and I think he and many “moderate” conservatives were probably claimed by Romney as his own - but are now beginning to rebel.
As it says in the Gospels, via Isaiah, “he shall not quench the smoking flax...” That is, don’t stamp out people who are coming to a realization because they’re not as “perfect” as you are.