It's very telling that you accuse pundits of being mean spirited and then you call Kristol a weasel.
Kristol's piece on Miers that I read indicated that she was not the right pick for the job. It is very telling that he was not alone as almost every conservative columnist said the exact same thing. Are they are weasels too?
Whatever
Fight this battle alone ..
Kristol is anything but a weasle. I don't always agree with him, but he's an honorable guy. What's surprising is the disparate opponents she garnered for herself. Frum, Coulter, Kristol, Schlaffy (sp?), Buchanan. That's a feat, if you ask me.
Ms. Miers writing was absolutely mediocre. Mark Steyn says that we should be hoping that one day we get back to appointing mediocrites like her, just like the early SC used to be filled with. Problem is we need fire in the belly Conservatives to either stamp out or at the very least neutralize the SC's ACLU reps: Ginsberg, Breyer.
Bill Kristol is an enemy of the Bush family, and has been doing his best to stick it to them since 1988. I have spent a lot of time researching his doings, and I will tell you that if you choose to think he is a conservative icon, you are a fool.
Mr. Conservative was so alarmed that George Bush would win the nomination that he spent darn near two years pushing the only candidate that he thought could win....COLIN POWELL.
What, Colin Powell? That same Colin Powell whom, as Secretary of State was trashed by Bill Kristol? Yes indeed!
Kristol trashed Dan Quayle's prospects with bad advice and was not allowed into the 1992 campaign meetings by James Baker because he constantly leaked to the press. Kristol has NEVER been about anything but getting even with the Bush family. Any time he agrees with the President, it is accidental...as when Bush invaded Iraq. Kristol had spent two years pushing that very action, so he couldn't very well criticize the President for doing so. He COULD, however, criticize the strategy, the tactics, the goals, and demand Rumsfeld's resigination.
Bill Kristol IS a weasel. I have plenty more ammunition than this, and I can document it all, so don't come telling me how awful it is to criticize Bill Kristol...especially after I have spent two weeks seeing Harriet Miers called everything from a pig to a lesbian.