Kristol Attacks Me?
I could have stomached Chris Christie, but didn’t think Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina or Mr. Trump were qualified to be President.
I am unalterably opposed to Ted Cruz who I consistently believe is an existential threat to our Senate Majority.
Our party is in the shape it is today because of people like Bill Kristol. Kristol is a leader of the neo-conservative movement. He was a leading proponent of the Iraq War. He is also a leading proponent of America attacking Iran. Neo-conservatives are one-time liberals who migrated to the party because they were drawn by the Reagan doctrine of a muscled foreign policy. I don’t have anything against neo-conservatives although I don’t think that every foreign policy crisis requires the United States invading somebody. I believe that Iraq was a huge mistake and I believe that most Americans share my view of that war. Kristol still defends it and believes we should do something similar in Iran. Donald Trump articulated the view that the Iraq war was a mistake more forcefully and more crudely than I would have and he did it in South Carolina, a place that was thought to be the most pro-military in the country. If Kristol’s view of the use of our military would have any resonance, it would be in South Carolina. Trump won the Palmetto State easily.
.. Kristol believed that Sarah Palin would be the savior of the party and he promoted her heavily when she got on the ticket with John McCain.
That was the real start of the dumbing down of the GOP.
Kristol stood by Palin through thick and thin, even briefly making the case that she would make a great Presidential candidate.
.. You don’t get to Donald Trump without Sarah Palin.
.. Palin was also the first one to really attack the Republican Party just as much as she attacked the Democrats. And through her attacks on the party, she gained even more energy.
Ted Cruz learned that lesson very well. And he has built an impressive fundraising operation based mostly on the Palin principle.
.. Trump is not my first choice. Is he an existential threat to our Republic? I don’t think so.