Buh-bye: Bill Kristol finally crosses to the Democrats

[mystery-ak]

  February 2, 2020
Buh-bye: Bill Kristol finally crosses to the Democrats
By Monica Showalter

 

Not that Bill Kristol is a guy who merits much attention anymore, but sure enough, the biggest, most recalcitrant, most self-defeating #NeverTrump out there has finally come out as a ... Democrat:

The Daily Caller spotted this:

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    @BillKristol

    Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/buhbye_bill_kristol_finally_crosses_to_the_democrats.html

 

[TomSea]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out... maybe he wrote things in the past I agree with. I haven't seen it though.

[catfish1957]

Bill Kristol still does op-eds? 

[aligncare]

Democrats? Democrats are so evil, even hell won’t take them!

[dfwgator]

[Bigun]

Bill Kristol was a Republican just like Mitt Romney IS a Republican.

[Bigun]

    

[skeeter]

Good.

I've always been uneasy with him on my side. He looks much more like a rat.

[sneakypete]

Good.

I've always been uneasy with him on my side. He looks much more like a rat.

@skeeter

He is,and has been since birth,an internationalist.

Lenin was also an internationalist. Lenin,not Lennon.

[truth_seeker]

'former editor-at-large of the now-defunct Weekly Standard'

"comes out" joining the notorious fake deacon of Dallas Ft. Worth

[skeeter]

@skeeter

He is,and has been since birth,an internationalist.

Lenin was also an internationalist. Lenin,not Lennon.

Ah Lenin who famously said 'imagine all the people'.

[corbe]

   In before the Trumpers hang the Kristol Cross around my neck and in my cleavage.

[dfwgator]

Ah Lenin who famously said 'imagine all the people'.

[PeteS in CA]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out... maybe he wrote things in the past I agree with. I haven't seen it though.

Nah, the door should hit him three ways: hard, fast, and continually.

[jmyrlefuller]

Maybe Jennifer Rubin can join him.

[Applewood]

Not sure that I interpret Kristol's tweets as American Thinker does.  Sounds to me like he is doing what a number of other Never Trump conservatives have said they will do -- vote Democrat in November because they can't in all good conscience vote for Trump.  It's not they are officially switching parties for good. 

I've had a few suggest this approach to me since I won't vote for Trump.  But I can't in all good conscience vote for a Democrat either.  Even the so-called centrists, such as Biden, will sooner or later adopt the radical politics of the ultra left because that is where the Democrat Party is headed.  Unfortunately, the Republican Party is also moving left.  Should the Democrats take the senate as well as the house, expect Republicans to move even further left to hold onto voters.  Those of us who are real conservatives will not have anyone to represent us. 

Not a fan of Kristol, but I believe I understand where he is coming from.  He's not alone in his frustration.  I just don't know that I would vote for the ones whose policies are everything contrary to the republic our Founding Fathers created just because I don't like the guy in the White House.  It's kind of like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and just as bad as voting for Trump to "save us" from the Democrats.  Neither idea is a good one and can actually make matters worse.

[skeeter]

Not sure that I interpret Kristol's tweets as American Thinker does.  Sounds to me like he is doing what a number of other Never Trump conservatives have said they will do -- vote Democrat in November because they can't in all good conscience vote for Trump.  It's not they are officially switching parties for good. 

I've had a few suggest this approach to me since I won't vote for Trump.  But I can't in all good conscience vote for a Democrat either.  Even the so-called centrists, such as Biden, will sooner or later adopt the radical politics of the ultra left because that is where the Democrat Party is headed.  Unfortunately, the Republican Party is also moving left.  Should the Democrats take the senate as well as the house, expect Republicans to move even further left to hold onto voters.  Those of us who are real conservatives will not have anyone to represent us. 

Not a fan of Kristol, but I believe I understand where he is coming from.  He's not alone in his frustration.  I just don't know that I would vote for the ones whose policies are everything contrary to the republic our Founding Fathers created just because I don't like the guy in the White House.  It's kind of like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and just as bad as voting for Trump to "save us" from the Democrats.  Neither idea is a good one and can actually make matters worse.

I'd be interested to know just which of Trump's policies have so offended Kristol. Is it his border policy? His Middle East policy? His trade policies? His essentially non-military interventionist posture?

Kristol, like many never Trumpers, can't seem to articulate specifically why the dislike him so much.

[Sighlass]

...........................

I've had a few suggest this approach to me since I won't vote for Trump.  But I can't in all good conscience vote for a Democrat either.  Even the so-called centrists, such as Biden, will sooner or later adopt the radical politics of the ultra left because that is where the Democrat Party is headed.  Unfortunately, the Republican Party is also moving left.  Should the Democrats take the senate as well as the house, expect Republicans to move even further left to hold onto voters.  Those of us who are real conservatives will not have anyone to represent us. 

Not a fan of Kristol, but I believe I understand where he is coming from.  He's not alone in his frustration.  I just don't know that I would vote for the ones whose policies are everything contrary to the republic our Founding Fathers created just because I don't like the guy in the White House.  It's kind of like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and just as bad as voting for Trump to "save us" from the Democrats.  Neither idea is a good one and can actually make matters worse.

Yep, don't care for Trump one bit, but I be dang if I vote for a democrat in any capacity. I don't follow the reasoning of those that suggest otherwise.

[Bigun]

Maybe Jennifer Rubin can join him.

Now THAT is what I call an EXCELLENT idea @jmyrlefuller

[sneakypete]

I'd be interested to know just which of Trump's policies have so offended Kristol. Is it his border policy? His Middle East policy? His trade policies? His essentially non-military interventionist posture?

Kristol, like many never Trumpers, can't seem to articulate specifically why the dislike him so much.

@skeeter

It's simple. Trump is a life-long denizen of NYC,and a Billionaire that has had social and business contacts with the leftist elites all his life,yet he DARES to put America first instead of his business associates and cocktail party pals,like some sort of inbred hillbilly white trash trailer creature. The horrors!

[corbe]

   I'll vote for Trump in 2020 if it appears to me that Texas's 38 Electoral Votes are in question, otherwise I'm gonna continue to sit on my acrimonious azz and pretend I'm better than most of you.  *

   * I didn't vote for Romney or McCain (I voted for Palin)

[truth_seeker]

Wiki- The Weekly Standard "Kristol attributed the magazine's demise to the hostility of supporters of the Donald Trump administration"

Sounds like Hillary -- frequently seen alaiming to be "conservatives, but end up "coming out"

[Bigun]

   I'll vote for Trump in 2020 if it appears to me that Texas's 38 Electoral Votes are in question, otherwise I'm gonna continue to sit on my acrimonious azz and pretend I'm better than most of you.  *

   * I didn't vote for Romney or McCain (I voted for Palin)

I did not vote for Trump in the 2016 primary or general but will be voting FOR him in both this year.  In my estimation he has earned it.

[catfish1957]

I did not vote for Trump in the 2016 primary or general but will be voting FOR him in both this year.  In my estimation he has earned it.

Yep...  the entire dim field this year is human excrement that will seriously damage this country, whoever it is.

[roamer_1]

Yep, don't care for Trump one bit, but I be dang if I vote for a democrat in any capacity. I don't follow the reasoning of those that suggest otherwise.

Same for me. Tumpy won't be getting my vote - But then, neither will a democrat... A distinction without a difference.