Bill Kristol is losing his mind on Fox News

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Bill Crystal and Krauthammer just had a little debate about analysis vs. advocacy and pushing Gingrich or Santorum out of the race at the risk of allowing Ron Paul to become a larger figure in the party by getting 30-40-50% of the vote, Crystal said this is something we wouldn't want, then they broke to commercial.

edit: I couldn't find video of the exchange although this blog post puts into words basically what was said and the message Kristol was giving off.

Now, the ideas of limited government, economic liberty and non-interventionism are front and center. Bill Kristol reacted viscerally to Krauthammer's analysis and said the conservative/anti-Romney candidates have to stay in and fight, because we can't allow Paul to gain so much power. As someone at Reason Mag said, Paul is the only anti-Romney. It's against the Kristol types that Paul's fight is best served in regards to the future of the GOP. The neo-con influence on the GOP has to be eradicated if the GOP is have any relevance in the future. Social conservativism has faded in political influence, as should be the case, because social concerns are matters for the market of ideas. The private realm is where social reformers have to make their case and generate voluntary change, if their ideas have merits. Kristol could care less about the "real conservatives" -- he just wants Santorum, Perry and Gingrich to stay in the race to offset the influence of Paul.
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http://bonzai.squarespace.com/blog/2012/1/11/ron-pauls-libertarian-revolution.html


edit 2: here is a copy of the video that was found props to Travlyr



There is build up to the point but the jist begins at 6:38
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol

In 1973, Michael Harrington coined the term "neoconservatism" to describe those liberal intellectuals and political philosophers who were disaffected with the political and cultural attitudes dominating the Democratic Party and were moving toward a new form of conservatism.[9] Intended by Harrington as a pejorative term, it was accepted by Kristol as an apt description of the ideas and policies exemplified by The Public Interest. Unlike liberals, for example, neoconservatives rejected most of the Great Society programs sponsored by Lyndon Johnson; and unlike traditional conservatives, they supported the more limited welfare state instituted by Roosevelt.

In February 1979, Kristol was featured on the cover of Esquire. The caption identified him as "the godfather of the most powerful new political force in America -- Neoconservatism".

We talk a lot about neocons. We're talking about Irving Kristol and his son, Bill Kristol. Standard Republicans currently like the neocon foreign policy. But they're not neocons. They're just going along to get along.
 
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Haha neocons are worried that RP's message is gaining traction...Oh I love it. We need to be on guard for their dirty tricks though, these people are scum make no mistake.
 
Yeah Krauthammer took it kind of personally. I love seeing two neoconservatives angry at each other.
 
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