Bill Kristol comes out of the 'political closet' and declares he's now a Democrat

[Swordsmyth]

When Bill Kristol swore he would never vote for President Donald Trump, he meant it. The longtime conservative commentator took to Facebook today to admit that he is a Democrat—for now.

In a tweet, the former editor-at-large of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, declared: "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."

In his tweet, Kristol appeared to be reacting to the Senate's 51-49 vote to not call additional witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. As the Daily Caller noted, two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), crossed party lines and voted with Democrats who were attempting to have former national security advisor John Bolton testify against the president.
[h=3]Blasted by pro-Trump conservatives[/h]The longtime #NeverTrump critic's tweet was blasted by conservative Trump supporters on Twitter. Among them was the DailyWire's Josh Hammer who said the declaration was "The tweet in which I finally unfollowed Bill Kristol." Meanwhile, conservative commentator Todd Starnes joked that Kristol had "finally came out of the political closet."


Ilya Shapiro, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, noted that Kristol's tweet amounted to an abandonment of the policies he claimed to care about.
"I mean, sure, if you don't care about policy and just want to virtue-signal. They'll never love you—and they'll never respect you either,” Shapiro said.

More at: https://www.theblaze.com/news/bill_kristol_political_closet_democrat

 

[Sammy]

"longtime conservative" thats a lie!
He was always a Neocon which is on the left!

 

[donnay]

A Trotskyite.

 

[RJB]

Think about how messed up that is. Trump is by no means a dove, however he is too peaceful for Bill. Infact, Bill finds that so reprehensible, he decided to join the party that's for free health care for illegals, violent gun confiscation against law biding American citizens, and for free abortions for male to female transgenders. So all that is acceptable if we invade Iran.

 

[Origanalist]

Think about how messed up that is. Trump is by no means a dove, however he is too peaceful for Bill. Infact, Bill finds that so reprehensible, he decided to join the party that's for free health care for illegals, violent gun confiscation against law biding American citizens, and for free abortions for male to female transgenders. So all that is acceptable if we invade Iran.

and for free abortions for male to female transgenders.

wut??????

 

[RJB]

...

 

[RJB]

wut??????

Julian Castro said it in the first primary debate and received huge applause. A lot of crazy stuff was said in that debate. What was unnerving about hearing them speak such insanities is that all those primary contenders knew they only had a few minutes to stand out from the crowd. Free male to female abortions was Julian's opus.

 

[Anti Globalist]

There was never anything about Bill Kristol that was conservative.

 

[RJB]

wut??????

Julian Castro probably spent a month preparing this statement:

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Among them was the DailyWire's Josh Hammer who said the declaration was "The tweet in which I finally unfollowed Bill Kristol."

It took this long? The funny thing is that so many people forever have believed that Kristol was “conservative”, and nothing would convince them otherwise. Not the media insiders, but your common Joe watching TV. Probably comes down mostly to people being brainwashed into the neoconservative/MIC foreign policy, and the narrative that it was “conservative”.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Think about how messed up that is. Trump is by no means a dove, however he is too peaceful for Bill. Infact, Bill finds that so reprehensible, he decided to join the party that's for free health care for illegals, violent gun confiscation against law biding American citizens, and for free abortions for male to female transgenders. So all that is acceptable if we invade Iran.

Neoconservatives have always agreed with everything leftist and globalist. It was a charade that they were “conservative”.

Now we have what I call teocons, which is like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Marco Rubio. They still retain neoconservative foreign policy, but they do seem to oppose socialism. Ironically, Sean Hannity constantly laments on his radio show that there are no more Democrat neoconservatives like Scoop Jackson and Joe Lieberman. The fact that these are Hannity’s heros might lead someone to question whether Hannity is in reality just like Kristol, except that he is still keeping up the charade of being conservative.

 

[RJB]

Neoconservatives have always agreed with everything leftist and globalist. It was a charade that they were “conservative”.

Now we have what I call teocons, which is like Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and Marco Rubio. They still retain neoconservative foreign policy, but they do seem to oppose socialism. Ironically, Sean Hannity constantly laments on his radio show that there are no more Democrat neoconservatives like Scoop Jackson and Joe Lieberman. The fact that these are Hannity’s heros might lead someone to question whether Hannity is in reality just like Kristol, except that he is still keeping up the charade of being conservative.

I know that was a sermon to the choir that I posted

 

[Anti Federalist]

Good, right where he belongs.

Let them asshole left deal with him from now on.

 

[Valli6]

Bill Kristol's behavior as a "Republican"

Here's an excerpt from an article written by Pat Buchanan about Bill Kristol in 2012, during the time Mitt Romney was running as the Republican nominee for president. https://buchanan.org/blog/how-bill-kristol-purged-the-arabists-5085

How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists
May 29, 2012

…Kristol was there for a March 16 “debate” with Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, the pro-Israel organization, at B’nai Jeshurun synagogue on the Upper West Side.

After listening to Kristol, writes Phil Weiss, “I am still reeling.”

“Kristol was treated like royalty and came off as … a Republican Party warlord,” bragging “about how all the hostile elements to Israel inside the Republican Party were purged over the last 30 years — (and) no one (now) dared to question the power of the Israeli lobby.”

“The big story in the Republican Party over the last 30 years, and I’m very happy about this,” said Kristol, is the “eclipsing” of the George H.W. Bush-James Baker-Brent Scowcroft realists, “an Arabist old-fashioned Republican Party … very concerned about relations with Arab states that were not friendly with Israel … .”

That Bush crowd is yesterday, said Kristol. And not only had the “Arabists” like President Bush been shoved aside by the neocons, the “Pat Buchanan/Ron Paul type” of Republican has been purged.

“At B’nai Jeshurun,” writes Weiss, “Kristol admitted to playing a role in expelling members of the Republican Party he does not agree with.” These are Republicans you had to “repudiate,” said Kristol, people “of whom I disapprove so much that I won’t appear with them.”

“I’ve encouraged that they be expelled or not welcomed into the Republican Party. I’d be happy if Ron Paul left. I was very happy when Pat Buchanan was allowed — really encouraged … by George Bush … to go off and run as a third-party candidate.” [NOTE: Pat Buchanan says this is not accurate. See below]

Kristol’s point: Refuse to toe the neo-con line on Israel, and you have no future in the Republican Party.

Ben Ami seemed equally exultant: “We’ve won the war; we won the war,” he told the audience. Ninety-nine percent of Congress now votes almost 100 percent pro-Israel.

But Ben Ami appeared nervous about how this unanimity in the Congress behind Israel had been achieved:

“I very seriously and absolutely do believe that a significant percentage of American members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are intimidated on this issue (of Israel). … They worry about the ramifications of speaking out. … They are worried about the attacks that they will receive.”

Ben Ami said the 50 members who have criticized Israel are courageous, but, “Another 200 are scared to do it.” Haaretz.com reports Ben Ami as saying congressmen “live in fear” of the Israeli lobby.

Kristol laughed at this and dared Ben Ami to name them.

When Ben Ami brought up the destruction of Palestinian rights on the West Bank and said Hillary Clinton repeatedly raises this issue with Israel, writes Weiss, “Kristol sniggered.”

It’s a “myth,” said Kristol, that Arabs care about Palestinians. The Israeli occupation on the West Bank can last for 45 or 60 years more. Bill Kristol on Palestinian rights sounds like Bull Connor talking about Negro rights in Birmingham in 1965.

Another source says Kristol predicted that Sen. Joe Lieberman, whose voting record is closer to Socialist Bernie Sanders’ than to conservative Jim DeMint’s, will be secretary of state in the Romney administration.

A former head of the Israel lobby AIPAC describes Lieberman as “the No. 1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in the Congress.”

Joe led the cheers for our last three Middle East wars — and has pushed for two more, against Syria and Iran.

About Kristol’s comments, a point of personal privilege.

George W. Bush never “encouraged” me to go third party. At the Iowa straw poll in 1999, he asked me to stay in the party, and party chair Jim Nicholson came to my home to make the same request.

At the synagogue, Kristol was never asked about his role in the Iraq War that he and his collaborators pressured Bush to wage as “Israel‘s fight against terrorism is our fight.”

Some 4,500 Americans died in that war, 35,000 were wounded, and 100,000 Iraqis perished, leaving half a million widows and orphans.

Result: U.S. influence in the Middle East is at a nadir. Al-Qaida has spread into Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and North Africa.

Now the neocons are worming their way into the Romney camp, dropping us hints on whether John Bolton or Joe Lieberman will be the next secretary of state.

https://buchanan.org/blog/how-bill-kristol-purged-the-arabists-5085

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Finally cat out of the bag but this is not surprising.

But it would not be a game changer unlike below historic conversions.

Originally Posted by CPUd

It's actually very simple. Instead of running as a Democrat, he is running GOP, so he must attack the Democrats. Some of his kids didn't get the memo though.

People have ability to change, democrats can become conservative Republicans sometimes.
Don't understand why some conservative purists keep calling them Democrats even now.

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