Palin's Mole At The NYT: Bill Kristol

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Palin's Mole At The NYT

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/palins-mole-at.html



Scott Horton has more detail on the role of Bill Kristol in blowing up the McCain campaign both before and after the disastrous selection of Sarah Palin. From a McCain adviser:

“In the last six weeks there was a remarkable echo. You could listen to arguments made by folks inside of the campaign who were close to Bill Kristol and then open up the New York Times and read them in Kristol’s columns. It was ‘set Sarah free,’ coupled with an agenda designed to appeal to the religious right and the more raucous elements of the party.

They got their way often enough, and we started noticing that at many of the Palin functions it was non-stop ‘Sarah, Sarah,’ while John McCain all but vanished. Were they trying to get McCain elected in 2008, or to help Palin on the way to the Republican nomination in 2012? You can’t get yourself into a situation in which anyone can credibly ask that question.”

The bottom line?

What emerges on a close reading is this: Palin and those closest to her inside the campaign were eager to wage a Lee Atwater-style campaign designed to demonize Barack Obama, with Palin as the figure leading the charge. McCain was resisting this push or at least attempting to keep it within tight boundaries. Kristol campaigned against the McCain strategy, boosting Palin.

[Trajan]

1. Kristol ..... SO slimy .....

And SO wrong ....

Imagine someone like Kristol, son of Neocon hero Irving Kristol, promoting someone as naive and ignorant as Sarah Palin ...

At least the present Neocon movement can couch their hatred in semi-diplomatic rhetoric ... Poor Sarah was thrust onto the dais, in front of billions of eyes and ears, and allowed to reveal the paucity of her worldly knowledge in cutting smears and slurs against half the nation and much of the world ...

Sarah Palin is McCain's fault .... and Sarah Palin is Kristol's fault ...

What a fucking circus they ran this cycle ....

[ReadTomPaine]

2. Well, he's not a mole really. There's nothing underground about it- he's an out and out cheerleader.

He hasn't made a secret of it, he gushes about her like a fanboy at every opportunity.

[Lumpsum]

3. I don't like to hate...

But I legitimately fucking HATE Bill Kristol with every fiber of my being.