[Austin Willard Wright]

It is nice for a neoconservative to finallly admit that such a thing exists. If a paleocon or libertarian had made the same claim, he would have been called an anti-semite.

[JohnGalt]

I think we should bump this thread every day for the next year.

That was nice and all that Kristol produced 600 words for the Weekly Standard, but this piece is a terrible embarrassment and its clear that most have not caught on to the implications.

Kristol makes the case that neoconservatives are separate and are currently aligned with the administration and religious conservatives, but I noted he made no claim that this would continue.

One can argue that he is basically suggesting that traditional conservatives (or older conservatives as he says) and libertarian conservatives should seek a Third Party or, I assume since the system is rigged, attempt a take over of the Ds. Or is there a second agenda item at play. Is Kristol suggesting that since neoconservatives are separate as a movement, they are the ones free to move (see '92) from party to party?

He also reveals what a Northeast liberal elitist with his explanation of what makes America work:

"It was only the prospect of economic growth in which everyone prospered, if not equally or simultaneously, that gave modern democracies their legitimacy and durability"

He is basically suggesting that economic growth is the only way to make a democracy work to avert endless class warfare. This is both Jacobinism and Marxist analysis.

And here it is naked and exposed by the godfather.


I am not sure how this piece, no matter how manipulated can square with the mission statement on the FR homepage.