Project for the New American Century back up and planning for Palin:

[Erin Elizabeth]

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/10/pnac-palins-pentagon-in-waiting/

It looks like Bill Kristol may be making good on his threat to revive the Project for the New American Century. Since May, visitors to PNAC’s website were informed that “this account has been suspended,” but now the website is back up, though it does not seem to have been updated with any new material.

PNAC’s militaristic ultra-nationalism is implicated in some of the worst mischief of the Bush years, from the “global war on terror” to the invasion of Iraq to President Bush’s support for Israel’s refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians. Many of its members served as advisers to John McCain’s presidential campaign. Bill Kristol is still listed as PNAC’s chairman, and is known to be “exceptionally close” to the senator. McCain’s top foreign policy aide, Randy Scheunemann, serves as PNAC’s project director. McCain spokesperson Michael Goldfarb is also listed as a PNAC research associate.

We should consider what PNAC’s possible revival means for the future of Sarah Palin. Palin was first “identified as a potential future leader of the neoconservative cause” in June 2007 when the Weekly Standard’s annual summer cruise docked in Juneau. Several editors — including Bill Kristol — had dinner with Palin. Scott Horton reported that in the following months, the Standard published a number of laudatory items about Palin — “starting with a paean entitled ‘The Most Popular Governor‘ that ran right after” the dinner.

Among those associated with the McCain campaign, Kristol, Scheunemann, and Goldfarb are known to have been three of the biggest Sarah Palin boosters. It was reported that Scheunemann had even been fired by the campaign after it was discovered that he was leaking information favorable to Palin to the press. Goldfarb later denied that Scheunemann had been fired, but “told reporters that Scheunemann’s Blackberry had been confiscated in the days before the election,” and that his email had been cut off.

After lobbying McCain to pick Palin as his VP, Kristol then used his prominent position as a New York Times columnist to promote Palin and criticize the McCain team’s handling of her. Given that Kristol’s faction began to close ranks around Palin in the waning days of the campaign, and given how deeply leveraged Kristol’s reputation is in her future success, it will be interesting to see what role the revived PNAC plays in continuing political adventures of Governor Sarah Palin.

Whatchoo think, yo?

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Just like Dan Quayle & Dim Son - another 'useful idiot'

It's too obvious to have some sneering old boar like Deadeye Dick trying to sell neocon propaganda. Much better, they think, to have it delivered by some harmless-in-appearance fool like Chimpolini or MILFy McMooseburger.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. My thoughts are that Bill Kristol must be wearing a bullet-proof vest to protect himself from

Republicans that would like nothing better than to come after him for encouraging McCain to pick that town idiot, Palin. This Kristol is desperately trying to revive his career after this, but how do you revive a rotted corpose?

On the other hand, Repukes are notorious for scratching the GUNK at the bottom of the barrel, licking it lovingly, then presenting it to everyone as if it were gold.

[annabanana]

3. Going into the "silk-purse" business, are they?

Lotsa luck with that one.

[louis-t]

4. I still say she will resist any attempt

to "educate" her. She, like bush, thinks she already knows enough to satisfy the fundie base, and she thinks that is all she'll ever need. She will be a 'hugh' disappointment to this faction of repugs. Mainstream repugs will push Kristol out of the limelight over this. This is my theory. The Theory. By A. Elk.

[xochi]

5. I was never convinced that the PNAC had ever really shut down.

I thought they were just responding to all the web scrutiny they were getting awhile back during the stolen "elections," 9/11 aftermath, and the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Cheney push for world dominance. I think they've suffered a major setback with Obama's election, but undoubtedly they are busy behind the scenes plotting their comeback. Beware the dark side!

[mmonk]

6. Keep the Blue Dogs away from them.

[Blue-Jay]

7. Good. I hope they run her again.

I could use some more laughs.

[H2O Man]

8. Yep.

As I've noted before, it was John Bolton who sold McCain on Palin. The necroconservatives will not disappear.

[ErinBerin84]

9. of course it is...ugh...

http://wonkette.com/404283/bill-kristol-relaunches-warlord-club-website
Bill Kristol Relaunches Warlord Club Website

The sleeping beast sleepeth no more, DO YOU SEE? Weekly Standard editor and New York Times dandy Bill Kristol appears to have flipped the website back on for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the famous congregation of neocons who love declaring war on all Arabs, always. WHAT EVIL THINGS WILL THEY PLAN NOW? Why the election of Sarah Palin, of course!