FOX News Sunday: William "The Bloody" Kristol Throws The House Republicans Under The Bus
By Nicole Belle Sunday May 18, 2008 7:00pm
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I think that even the most partisan pundits see the upcoming elections as a no-win for Republicans and are just trying to ameliorate the damage as much as possible. Even uber-partisan William Kristol can only urge the House Republicans to stop their whining and do whatever they can to put McCain in the White House.
Wallace: You've got an economy that's in real trouble. You've got an Iraq War that people don't like. Uh the right track, wrong track is now overwhelmingly... I guess now 80% people think wrong track. Can you fight that if people identify that with your party?
Kristol: Well you can avoid further losses if John McCain does well at the top of the ticket. Look, the Democrats...the Republicans lost in 2006 House elections nationally by about 8 or 9 points, that's... the current House balance in the House of Representatives reflects a Democratic about 8 point advantage. Uh right now in the polls it's 12 to 14 points. They need to, it would be helpful to knock that back down to 8. The easiest way is to help John McCain defeat Barack Obama. That will naturally pull Republicans up. The other way to do it is to help Bush's approval rating go up a little bit which I think is doable actually. I... Bush, I think actually has probably has better political sense than a lot of these House Republicans. The idea that they should distance themselves from the President now, Tom Davis was a loyal deputy of Tom DeLay. Tom Davis was all for earmarks. He was going right along with Bush and DeLay on everything and now he's decided now that he's leaving the Congress he's going to be a hero with the mainstream media by writing a 20 page memo, "Distance yourself from Bush, change everything." They can't do anything left. They're not going to pass any legislation. They're not going to have an independent identity to House Republicans in the last four or five months. There's McCain, and there's Bush. Now if they think they want to be tough on spending, why don't they support the President's attempt to veto a bloated farm bill? The majority of House Republicans voted for it. Well, they're their own worst enemy. In my view the House Republicans should be quiet. They should call the McCain campaign and get advice on how they can help McCain win. They're not going to win back the House anyway but that's fine. At least they could hold their numbers if McCain does well at the top of the ticket.
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Oh my. Me?
Yeah this makes total sense. How the hell are the House Repubs going to help McCain when they are already declared DOA in their House races? Has anyone figured out what Kristol is on yet? I mean the guy has obviously been totally wasted for the past decade, and yet he looks so fresh all the time.
I saw this and just about choked on my quiche. Then Brittany Hume spewed some bullshit and I hit the “off” button. I will say that Juan Williams did give some kind of rebuttal to Billy the Bloody. As lame as it was it was still something. I think Brittany hates Juan.
Old Billy is just another Kool Aid drinker who is in denial.
He'll learn the truth in November.
"Bloody" Kristol is indulging in wishful thinking. There's no way this will play out the way he'd like to think it will. Too bad you big pouting baby. Take your hands out of your pants and act like a man. It's a stretch I know - but give it a try.
You've had your chance and you blew it. Stop whining and do a bit of self-examination. Not that I believe any of you are capable of that.
An entire political party of delusional Has-Beens. They deserve to lose and they have no one to blame but themselves.
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LindsayLohan'sButtFreckles @ 2:
Prozac
LindsayLohan'sButtFreckles @ 2:
Kristol Myth.
MIKE @ 4:
Billy is the Kool Aid distributor.
How are house repubs going to help Bushes approval ratings?
Are they going to go out and take lots of public opinion poles?
Keep talking Bloody, you're part of the reason your party's going down in flames!
Yeah, complete political prowess.
Win American voters by going off on Hitler at Israel's birthday party.
And House Rep's winning us over by walking out of the Congress to waiting microphones to cry for the cameras.
They're showing their strengths all right!!
Are they gone yet?
Trittydi @ 5:
Just like PNAC
dosido @ 7:
HAHAHA That is great dude. I hope it catches on.
I'm convinced that Kristol occupies some weird parallel universe, the one where Kirk and Spock have goatees.
LindsayLohan'sButtFreckles @ 13:
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Kristol-clear to me. The fun for the next months is to watch pompous jerks like him trying to find some talking point that makes any Repub look reasonable! They have owned the power-bully positions for so long they have to be scrambling now to save whatever credibility they have left.
so william the bloody thinks that mccain has coattails???
i must find the kookaide he drinks
Kristol Meth is deadly. Just say no.
Mr. Kristol is one of the Prime Architects of the Iraq Crusade,
along with the Bush Family, Rumsfeld, Condi, Feith , Podhertz,
Frum, Rove , and any other Neocons that I missed. There is
another that I wanted to name but he ran for cover about five
years ago,
Kristiol's opinion and comments are " radioactive".
new rule. if you use the metaphor "thrown under the bus", you should literally be thrown under a bus.
Billy "The Empty Suit" Kristol, Billy-Billy-Billy ...... how is that Sunni-Shiite family reunion going? Have they invited you to the opening of the new Green Zone open house party yet? Will you be taking the McCain stroll along the avenue with a scant 100 troops and helicopter gun ships for fly over protection as you tout the advances that freedom has brought the Iraqi nation?
Kristol is a psychopathic lying, posing like a William Buckley without a clue moron, who hasn't been right in years. Shitforbrainsasshole.
Wow, totally delusional NeoCon.
C'mon McCain, make Billy your campaign manager.
Pleeease.
In other news: Traitors or just sore losers? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/politics/19women.html?pagewanted=2&...
"Cynthia Ruccia, 55, a sales director for Mary Kay cosmetics in Columbus, Ohio, is organizing a group, Clinton Supporters Count Too, of mostly women in swing states who plan to campaign against Mr. Obama in November. “We, the most loyal constituency, are being told to sit down, shut up and get to the back of the bus,”
The bitties are screeching "sexism" at Obama but I guess they don't think Hillary's race baiting to get white votes in West Virginia was racism?
Ah, shit. If William Kristol says Republicans are not going to take back the House, that means they will, right???
Kristol is an abject failure. PNAC has failed. Republicanism has failed. They all played their hands and lost. They are going down like the Titanic. They can point fingers, blame the captain or blame the crew. They can jump ship. Too late. The icy water of reality is pouring in and they are doomed. There will be wimpering and whining at the end but it will be drowned out by the cheers and celebration by those who have been terrorized by these thugs.
Then the real work begins.
How the hell does this guy figure out how to breathe every couple of seconds?
Wow- you almost expect him to pull out a machine gun and shout " Say hello to my little friend!!! "
They are ALL going down, Mr Kristol...
Krystol Myth! I like that!
He reminds me of Hannity on the radio today. "It's not CONSERVATIVES that people are rejecting... it's the Republican leadership's FAILURE to live up to the Reagan legacy!" (I'm paraphrasing.) Hannity can't see the forest for all the dead rotten trees that have fallen in his path. Look at what the Republican Party... AND the conservative "movement" have become... rotten to the core!
Ruthless People @ 23:
Ruccia has visions of grandeur from all the crap they put in those cosmetics.
Kristol + Israel = Neocon.
Aren't Republicans grand. This fuck does not care that the economy is headed to the shitter, he just needs McBush's ass in the Oval Office next. Whether this be bad or good for the country is beside the point.
A manager where I work made a crack today about inflation getting worse if the Dems get in the WH.
It was like the last fucking 8 years have been bad luck or a fluke and Dems will only make it worse.
Now, this guy is not stupid but sheesh political loyalty run amok, I tell ya.
Run this country into the ground if you must but do it with a Republican in the WH, fucking idiot.
What was that Egyptian river called?
Kristol needs to throw himself under a bus.
This guy is so macho. I heard he was taking voice lessons from Charleton Heston, and Kung Fu lessons from Chuck Norris.
CowboyBob in Austin @ 28:
I hope they keep believing that all the way to a landslide defeat in November then we can redistrict these bastards into permanent minority status like Tom Delay tried to do to us.
Payback's a bitch bitches!
And in my view, you should STFU. Who listens to this clown? What a friggin' joke!
Kristol Meth...best line I've seen in a long time! WTG!
I think I would have said mitigate instead of ameliorate Nicole. That being said the best thing House Republicans can do is to examine Mr Kristol's advice very carefully and then do the opposite. Given his batting average on prognostication that would probably be the least harmful strategy for them to follow.
dosido @ 7:
Yep. I laughed out loud. Kudos.
I am yet to hear one single salient person tell me why they'd vote for McCain.
A more burnt-out, bought up, addle-headed, compromised, know-nothing, confused, status quo supporting, war party abetting tool you could not wish for.
Good if you like continuity I s'pose.
he should worry about getting his website back up. LOL
How it will end for Kristol
We'll only really know that it's the end for their movement when folks like Kristol start boarding airplanes with one-way tickets to places that don't have extradition with the US. One week they'll be at their usual bloviation station, then the next week they just won't be there any more, for forever. The remainders (the "left-behinders") and subs on these talk-shows probably won't even mention the disappearances, sort of like the networks won't mention the generals-for-hire thing they duped for. Their entries will be ripped out of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, with everyone instructed to replace them with an expanded article on the Bering Sea. Well, Bering Sea is what they put in when they disappeared Lavrenti Beria. For Kristol, I guess they'll be an unusually lengthy and detailed article on the "kris" that will leave future generations wondering why this obscure type of knife was favored with so many pages.
Reality is not his best subject.
I think what we are seeing in McCain is something I have long suspected, but cannot prove as a certainty. It is not possible for a republican presidential candidate to maintain any sense of independence. By the time they have become 'the candidate', they have far too many political IOUs. McCain has pretty much back pedaled on every issue he (allegedly) stood for, as late as 2004. If you look at the markers now hold, the list is extensive.
1) International oil cartel
2) Evangelical right-wing Christian neo-cons
3) The major corporations
4) Virtually every major corporate causing the most environmental damage
5) The American/Israeli right-wing lobby
6) The military industrial complex
7) ... more I do not want to spend time thinking about
John-Boy will not be able to pinch a loaf without permission. He is now owned, lock, stock and barrel.
Buffoon Bill is one of the major mouthpieces for the American/Israeli right-wing lobby. This not focused on supporting the State of Israel. It is about supporting the right-wing Israeli Hawks (the equivalent of their republican party). They are the ones preventing peace in their region. Their interest is not to live in peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, or in the whole region, for that matter. They want to have a dominating presence, regardless of the cost of human suffering and 40 plus years of bloodshed (with no end in sight). McCain has firmly bought into this and he will perpetuate it.
I realize that most of you are aware of this already, so do not view this as a 'lecture'.
This one needs to be archived to replay after the elections.
William the Bloody is a master bullshitter and his two minute bloviation is a masterpiece of covering his ass when the election blows up. He can blame any house losses on those whom didn't take his advice, all the whilst holding the fantasy that McCain and Bush are their fantasy ticket out of disaster.
dosido @ 7:
Funniest thing I've read all week!
Would be great if NYT guaranteed his continued employment based on his prognostications.
I needed a good laugh today.
dosido @ 7:
nailed it!!!
My first thought was Kristol Meth, but that's sheer genius.
wesisbest @ 47:
Yup, I had to come back here just to read it again, I've been laughing at it for the last couple of hours. Wish I could take some credit for the set up, but really this 'dosido' person deserves a fucking medal or something. And his "Kristol Myth" should enter the blogger lexicon immediately.
That's it, Kristol? That's all you can say at this point? The farm bill?
How is it that someone like William Kristol can pull in a NYT salary, with the drivel he spews weekily?
CowboyBob in Austin @ 28:
Exactly!!
Atilla the Appeaser, Bitter Despot @ 34:
LOL good one!
Repugs, PLEASE for the love of your sweet plastic jeebus, LISTEN to this fucking idiot. Do what he says. HUG the oil baby. Continue down the same path of ruin you have been blindly following for the last 8 years. Listen to the closet gay guy and show your love for Bush. Have him speak at your rallies. Better yet, have Dick Chaney speak at your rallies. For the love of the great flying spaghetti monster, please write down everything this political sage has to tell you, and follow it to the letter.
I find it hard to believe that even repugs would be stupid enough to follow that advice... but I've learned to NEVER underestimate the stupidity of people.
JustSickOfIt @ 52:
Amen? ;-)
"Bush, I think actually has probably has better political sense than a lot of these House Republicans."
Kristol can't open his mouth without stepping on his dick at the same time.
"Look, the Democrats…the Republicans lost in 2006 House elections"
See how he stopped himself from saying the phrase "the Democrats won". This is the kind of thought control they have to enforce on themselves.
Ole wild bloody Bill,
"The Republicans should just be quiet and continue to RUBBER STAMP George Bush. "
Yeah, forget those pesky peon voters.
Here is a question for Bill;
With McCain big money and republican wealthy donors not having the impact of 3 republican strong holds, is that good advice?
What does the Republican party do when their corporate/lobbyists/corporate media BS does not fool many as in the past. The republican candidates for Senate and House are going to have to rely on voters and they aren't listening to Corporate interests and propaganda as they have.
Do the republicans running for office continue to lockstep as the lobbyists, corporations, and big donors tell them to and that this donor money can overcome voters angst in TV ADs? Really?
This is your brain:
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This is your brain on kristol myth:
http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/kristol.jpg
Any questions?
56 Robt Says: Ole wild bloody Bill,
“The Republicans should just be quiet and continue to RUBBER STAMP George Bush. ”
Dontcha mean rubber pants?
What most people are not aware of is all of the so call "experts" like William the Bloody, live off the corporate money TIT. They all live very subsidized lives from all of these "think tanks" and non-profit councils. Have you ever seen where these groups get their money from?
People like Kristol are no better than the Pentagon "expert" shills whhich have been outed by the NY Times. Everytime one of these assholes goes on TV, there should be a manditory disclamer stating that "this message has been subsidized by Exxon Mobile, General Dynamics and Northrup-Grumman".
Billy gets up there and says what he does not because he is some expert, but is parroting what he has been told to say. He is a tool. It is about time that MSM just stops inviting him, or at least starts every interview with the statement of his true corporate sponsers.
republicans can thank reagan for killing the Fairness Doctrine for their demise. and the talk radio monopoly that gave the biggest political soapbox in the country over to the wit and wisdom of the rush limbaughs and sean hannitys will keep the GOP stumbling right off the cliff.
Tim in Japan @ 57:
And another:
This is your brain:
http://home.c2i.net/kaaby/brain4.jpg
This is your brain in kristol myth:
http://www.lifeisajoke.com/pictures388_html.htm
Sorry, but I'm having fun with this.
Lol. i hope their strategy is to loose all their races by 8 points. That's classic. What a moron!!
Doesn't he realize that this would lead to there being no republicans in office. haha.. That's a great strategy.
Is Billy the Bloody ever right about anything?
zugzug @ 62:
Actually, I'm just hoping their bowels are loose.
LindsayLohan'sButtFreckles @ 48:
Wow, thanks guys (blushing).
Now if we can only get the DEA to locate the lab. Seems to be an endless supply.
If not for the toobz, my head would've exploded many moons ago. Fight on!
PS to LL buttfreckles
And thanks for the beautiful meatball over home plate set up!
High five and a knuckle bash, too.
Ruthless People @ 23:
What the hell does that have to do with Kristol Meth?
Man... This guy is just constantly spewing shit on the airwaves blah blah blah blah blah... Ya know, its really pretty simple to figure... As long as people left, right or center continue to listen to this jerkoff and the bullshit he's putting out there for consumption, the longer we will remain in the shitter as regards the worlds general opinion of us as a nation and people... And the longer we will have to be subjected to seeing his pus on the internet and T.V.... talkin his line of bullshit... Right here on this thread, he's trying one more time to put lipstick on a pig... I wish someone he actually listens to instead of talking past would tell him to shut the fuck up. I still want to put my size nine boot right thru his smarmy fascist ass-kissin face...JD
He is correct the farm bill should be vetoed and voted down.....commodity prices for the past 3 years have gone thru the roof...with no end in site....on a percentage basis more than oil, yet we continue to subsidize farmers....this is ridiculous and points to congress being inept....this should be voted down and if the republicancs had courage they would do it....simple waste of taxpayer money...
It's sad, but we grossly underestimate the average person who listens to these bullshitters. My sister (God help her) listens to Mark Levin. She forwarded me some email the other day where EVERYTHING THAT HAS GONE WRONG is now the fault of the 110th (Democratic) controlled Congress. While I love these emails because I always reply to her with some simple fact based logic, her mentality is very telling of the average right winger. I usually manage to shut her up, but she at least has half a brain. Most of them do not.
Just listen to the callers of right wing radio. Their ignorance and fanaticism is truly staggering. It's fucking scary as hell to realize that right wingers control the radio and their listeners are totally sucked in by their crap.
Ruthless People @ 23:
Sore losers
MarcyJ @ 70:
It is scary. There is a little ray of hope that more republicans are leaving the party and/or "disgusted" with their party. I went to a table set up at a rather large county fair in CA and they said they had never been so busy in years past (registering dems).
I also wonder how your sister or some of these talk show callers would feel if they knew that because many of us are prone to peer pressure and conformity. It could panic them to know they didn't get the memo.
I think they should take his advice and try to "hold their numbers". Of course, then when McSame tanks, the House pugs tank with him.
Sounds like the best possible outcome to me.
I think that the Republicans should concentrate on learning how to get monkeys to fly out of their asses. Once they master that, winning back the White House should be a snap. Kristol could help out by locking his lips over their butt holes and sucking for all he is worth. He seems to be pretty good at it....
I think you should have reconsidered the headline here, Kristol is dragging them under the bus where he has resided for a couple of years now.
The fact is that House Republicans and William "The Arrogant" Kristol are all together under the refrigerator. They scurried there when the lights were turned on in the kitchen.
Do you ever wonder why so many people are getting on the Barack Hussein Obama bus?
Could it be that this nation is becoming colorblind and does not care if a good person is black, white, red or tan?
Could it be that the American people don’t care if a person worships as a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or Jew?
Could it be that people remember the scandals of the Clinton And Bush years?
Could it be that the American people know that if it was not for the Clinton’s filth and scandals that Al Gore would be completing his second term in office.
Could it be that the American people remember Bush and McCain looking into our eyes and saying, “believe me there are weapons of mass destruction”?
Could it be that the American people are shell shocked that over 4,000 precious lives have been lost fighting the wrong war in the wrong country against the wrong enemy?
Could it be that the American people realize that Karl Rove politics brought our nation to where it is today?
After sixteen years of scandals what this nation needs is a national cheerleader.
Congress and the senate make laws.
This nation needs someone that will lift us up and work toward national unity.
The Clintons would never be able to accomplish that.
John McCain sold his sole to become the nominee of the Republican Party.
What this nation does not need is four more years of fighting a wrong war, in the wrong country, against the wrong enemy.
And the poor old, very old man does not understand the economy.
Why would he need to understand the economy when his wife is one of the wealthiest women in the US?
That is why this conservative Republican is supporting Barack Hussein Obama.
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the house republicans want to help mccain ,but every time they look at him, they see bush's humongous shadow fighting to snuggle up to him.
dosido Says: LindsayLohan’sButtFreckles @ 2:
Has anyone figured out what Kristol is on yet?
Kristol Myth.
my nominee for blog comment of the year
Joe @ 30:
oh thats so very clever .... you guys obviously have no imagination . Im no huge backer of kristol but what he said is obviously true . The house abandoned its small government principles so for now they have damaged their brand + deserve to lose . However higher taxes , higher gas prices and pushing socialized medicine / encroaching even further into our lives via climate change + pushing harder will likely hand the house back to us pretty soon . By the way former DC mayor Marion Barry is pushing school choice and anecdotely it is said that Gov Patterson is no big fan of the teachers union. Its interesting that a former crackhead and somebody that is legally blind can see that we need competition in school system but the democratic candidate for president is too much of a lackey for the teacher's union that he has walked away from even the minor "merit pay " idea that he pushed in '07 . What courage lol , "change".....how pathetic because im pretty sure his children wont be mired in the sinkhole that is the public school system
MarcyJ @ 70:
hmmmm i think if you want to truly be scared listen to the ignorant masses that call left wing radio ...whenever i want a good laugh i listen to them try to complete a sentence however lets get to the facts . Republicans are party of small government + they have betrayed that brand and deserve to lose . The problem is liberalism , the failures of government in public health,education ,housing are so incredibly underwhelming that the leftists should just admit their failures + set about reforming all these industries like the republicans did in 95 but pushing welfare reform on clintons desk . This isnt personal + has nothing to do with Obama its just that government schools cant teach the kids,public housing has a quasi 80's lebanon feel and if you dont realize that just pay attention to what has happened in far rockaway over the past few days and medicaid + medicares wastes 10's of billions over the years in just NY state...just imagine how much is wasted nationally . Add to this the fact that baby boomers will double the soc security/medicaid rolls to 80 million and you see without reform we are facing a entitlement bomb ...not a right wing talking point ,just a fact also pointed out by leftists like Tim Russert etc.
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