Bill Kristol Picks a Frontrunner

The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol--a longtime McCainiac--anoints Rudy G "the genuine frontrunner" in a conversation at CPAC with Reader's Digest's William Beaman. And laments the slippage of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz).:

In my conversation with Bill Kristol, we kicked around whether McCain has lost some of his energy and drive, due to age (he'd be the oldest elected president ever). "If so, that would be a shame," Bill said. He's long been an admirer of McCain and a past supporter of him for president. But he, like everyone in Washington, has been looking for signs that McCain will kick into a higher gear, rather than show that he's slowing down. At best, his absence from CPAC kept his campaign bus in neutral. At worst, he slipped it into reverse.

More here.

For a compendium of reasons to be worried by a McCain presidency, check out "Be Afraid of President McCain," in the latest issue of Reason

Comments

Warren | March 9, 2007, 9:15am | #

Bill Kristol has been grotesquely wrong about everything. He's the architect of the worst foreign policy since the Wilson administration. The fact that he isn't living out of a cardboard box is definitive proof that there is no god.

steveintheknow | March 9, 2007, 9:17am | #

A friend of Bill Kristol is an enemy of mine.

Bhh | March 9, 2007, 9:31am | #

Being a pundit is a weird gig. Once you learn the secret handshake or something there's no amount of wrong you can be and still people want to give you a soapbox.

William R | March 9, 2007, 9:46am | #

Billy boy Kristol is a parasite. He wrote back in 2004 if the Bushians dumped his foreign policy he'd gladly hitch his wagon to John Kerry. Give this little Trotskyite the hook.

biologist | March 9, 2007, 10:12am | #

Eric Dondero to show up and start shilling for Giuliani's libertarianismA in 3...2...1...

| March 9, 2007, 10:27am | #

Eric Dondero to show up and tell us how Bill Kristol is a true mainstream libertarian in 3...2...1...

VM | March 9, 2007, 10:37am | #

People showing up to count things down in 3..2.. d'oh!

Lamar | March 9, 2007, 10:47am | #

1...2...3...ni nairatrebil meartsnaim eurt a si Bill Kristol woh su llet dna pu wohs ot Eric Dondero.

What'dya all think? I finally found a way to make all that countdown stuff even more annoying.

VM | March 9, 2007, 12:08pm | #

Lamar wins!

John Favreau as D-Bob | March 9, 2007, 12:11pm | #

Countdowns and declaring someone the "winner" of a thread: new drinking game rules?

de stijl | March 9, 2007, 12:12pm | #

aka John Favreau as D-Bob

highnumber | March 9, 2007, 12:53pm | #

Quiz:

1. Eric Dondero is to Rudy Guiliani as Lonewacko is to?

2. As Single Issue Voter is to?

3. As Dave W is to?

1600 on my SAT | March 9, 2007, 12:59pm | #

This is so easy!

1. Immigration

2. Cockfighting

3. HFCS

highnumber | March 9, 2007, 1:05pm | #

1600,

1. Correct

2. Correct

3. Incorrect, the correct answer is any nutjob issue.

joe | March 9, 2007, 2:50pm | #

"Bill Kristol Picks a Frontrunner"

Is it Chalabi?

crimethink | March 9, 2007, 3:36pm | #

Countdowns and declaring someone the "winner" of a thread: new drinking game rules?

Ah, screw it all. Let's just drink after every post.

Blood Diamonds | March 11, 2007, 1:18am | #

What Warren said. And the same goes double for Fred Barnes.

Guy Montag | March 11, 2007, 12:42pm | #

I thought he was great on Soap but never got into is nonsense in City Slickers.