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Lashing Out: McCain Flack Turns On Bill Kristol
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Of course, a smart observer might have suggested that the incompetence-slash-incoherence was extant at the moment McCain selected Sarah Palin (inexperienced, embroiled in abuse-of-power scandal, earmark lover) as his running mate, and the toxicity was apparent after a week of all-Ayers-all-the-time campaigning. And we'd remind you that both the Palin selection and the Ayers-bashing had few supporters as frenzied as Kristol. But hey! If the Times was interested in good sense or accountability or even intellectual consistency from their columnists, they wouldn't have ...

Blaming Kristol for Palin
Political Animal — ... Sarah Palin. I think there's a lot of real anger about it. There's also recognition that it's too late to do anything." I'm the last guy who would defend Kristol, and the campaign aides are certainly right to perceive Palin as humiliating, but this isn't Kristol's fault. Sure, he recommended Palin and vouched her, but the McCain campaign thought it was wise to listen to Bill Kristol . They've made that mistake quite a few times, changing campaign strategy to match Kristol's advice. It's failed every time . Who's worse, the fool or the fools who listened to him?— ...