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Bill Kristol On Fox News: 'Republicans Are Making A Huge Mistake' Conflating IRS And NSA Scandals
Mediaite ^ | June 9, 2013 | Evan McMurry

Posted on 06/10/2013 9:57:12 AM PDT by EveningStar

On Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol cautioned against conflating the various Obama scandals with the new revelations of NSA surveillance.

"Conservatives and Republicans are making a huge mistake," Kristol predicted.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billkristol; evanmcmurry; foxnews; foxnewssunday; irs; kristol; marymatalin; matalin; mediaite; nsa; obamascandals; sleepingwiththeenemy; turncoat; weeklystandard
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To: EveningStar

I couldn’t believe it, but I was listening to Mike Gallagher this morning while he was interviewing Michelle Bachman, and they were both more angry at the leaker than at the government snooping!


61 posted on 06/10/2013 10:29:23 AM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: bray
How would that "mistake" have been made? How would Gingrich or Bachmann or Perry or Cain or Santorum have been elected? They all trailed Romney in polls throughout the primaries.

I doubt Kristol said electing any of them would be a mistake. It was more that they couldn't be elected (apparently Romney couldn't either, but that's another story).

Kristol has a valid point here. NSA snooping happens whoever is president. If you find some connection to the administration's political activities, there's a valid connection to the IRS scandal. If it's just NSA internal national security activity tying it in to other scandals may weaken critics of the administration.

62 posted on 06/10/2013 10:30:52 AM PDT by x
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To: x

It’s not conflation to see the IRS and NSA scandals as each being symptomatic of an out-of-control state.


63 posted on 06/10/2013 10:35:24 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: EveningStar

Therein lies the problem that has divided conservatives and libertarians. Those that worry consistently about the government snooping on them and those that also want to stop terrorists. Obama found a issue that would drive a wedge. Start spying on citizens and get both groups unhappy. Obama isn’t caring about stopping terrorism because he, underline, he Killed Bin Laden, not the Navy Seals, But he did. So he says. So the war on terror is over. And he starts using the technology to spy on others. Thus angering both sides.


64 posted on 06/10/2013 10:36:31 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: EveningStar

Shut up Bill.

They are two different scandals....but living here in 0bamaville and considering what the IRS has already done, is it such a stretch for you to see that info gathered is info shared and used against an individual or corporation?

If not, give me that blue pill you took or that pipe you’re smoking.


65 posted on 06/10/2013 10:36:37 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: peyton randolph

Maybe we should just let them get away with EVERYTHING? Right Bill?


66 posted on 06/10/2013 10:36:43 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: EveningStar

Bill Kristol is another inside the beltway pompopus elite posing as a conservative.

He is not worth reading, watching on tv or listening to.


67 posted on 06/10/2013 10:36:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ('How empty and dead' were they to let Chris Stevens, one of them , die for 'Obama-Clinton fiction?')
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To: peyton randolph
I hate the way the term NEOCON is thrown around, but aren’t the 2 members of the Kristol family text book Neo Cons?
68 posted on 06/10/2013 10:38:34 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: stockpirate

Michael Dell...


69 posted on 06/10/2013 10:39:25 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MNDude
I was listening to Mike Gallagher this morning while he was interviewing Michelle Bachman, and they were both more angry at the leaker than at the government snooping

They actually believe this program is about stopping terrorists when obama won't even admit a terrorist act when it happens? Disappointed in the stupid republicans. I don't even consider myself a republican any more. Strictly conservative. If the GOP is going to continue in it's losing ways, I'm just not going to vote any more. I've had it.

70 posted on 06/10/2013 10:40:03 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: EveningStar

Police State Bill Kristol can’t connect the dots to see the constitutional connection to the feds violating your rights and harassing you at the IRS based on your politics and the new political KGB spying into everyone’s private life and collecting dirt on targets for political/legal extortion down the road?

Obama has officially named his political enemies domestic terrorists for the police state and the military to focus in on. That is Tea Party people, third party voters, people organized to stop Dem. party voter fraud, constitutional activists, second amendment activists, Christians, pro-lifers, Vets, anyone speaking “hate” the glory of Dear Reader (white racists)), Islam and anal sex...

Bill is either stupid or a corrupt police state, anti-freedom, treasonous propaganda king. Your paranoid anti-terrorist policy has gone way over the top, Bill. Back off and buy a clue before that paranoid hate machine reachs out and touches you and yours. Maybe the AmKGB has dirt on Billy.


71 posted on 06/10/2013 10:40:15 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Kansas58
Obama his'sef is too stupid to do anything with any information, but he has handlers who do do those sorts of things. Recently he had no difficulty at all in finding General grade officers willing to impose manadatory homosexuality on the troops ~ those guys were there all along, biding their time, and then when 'bama came along they were ready.

But the broad scandals all dovetail neatly ~ either at the White House or in Chicago.

72 posted on 06/10/2013 10:40:48 AM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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To: exit82

Coulter and Sean Vanity are two others I detest. Vanity constantly refers to hard core dims are “his good friend”. I don’t have any friends all others are acquaintances that I don’t trust as far as I can throw them to speak the truth on anything.


73 posted on 06/10/2013 10:42:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MNDude
Everybody’s just trying to tamp down the fire and get it under control. Not. Going. To happen. The bond of trust between the American people and their government has been irrevocably broken.
74 posted on 06/10/2013 10:42:40 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: oblomov

The problem with IRS is the 16th amendment. Get rid of the amendment that problem is solved. Anything less just pushes the pieces around on the chessboard.


75 posted on 06/10/2013 10:43:18 AM PDT by muawiyah (Git yer Red Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Congratulations. You win “Most Unreadable Post” for the day.


76 posted on 06/10/2013 10:45:26 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: muawiyah

Bolton echoed those very words.

http://www.wlsam.com/common/page.php?pt=Bolton%3A+NSA+leaker+Edward+Snowden+is+guilty+of+treason&id=45663&is_corp=0

http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=1201&c=5751&f=1506931

(6:30 mark)


77 posted on 06/10/2013 10:46:39 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Resolute Conservative

Rush Limbaugh....


78 posted on 06/10/2013 10:46:59 AM PDT by stockpirate (F. Douglass, "A man's rights rest in three boxes: ballot box, jury box, and ammo box)
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To: stockpirate
>Bill Gates quit college too, and look what happened to him.

Yep, this guy dropped out of college as well...

... still, - I think he did alright.

79 posted on 06/10/2013 10:49:12 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: EveningStar

A mistake in that the GOP started the blanket wire taps.

This could hurt the GOP.


80 posted on 06/10/2013 10:49:56 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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