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BFFs No More?
Eschaton —
Weird if there's a spat between Kristol and the McCain camp. Though Kristol criticizing the McCain campaign for sucking is pretty hilarious given his heavy promotion of Sarah Palin. ...
Obama Success: Working Harder, Smarter, Than McCain
Newshoggers.com —
... Bill Kristol at the NY Times, Drudge and Halperin at Time then? All of those and more are ready, willing and able to boost McCain's relaunch in the national spotlight. (Although Kristol has ruffled some feathers at the McCain camp by calling them all incompetents.) ...
Jesse Lee: 22 Days Out: OK, Keeping Throwing Things At the Wall Until One of Them Isn't Perceived as Erratic...
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That hardly seems like the answer (and McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer seemed to take it a bit personally), but one can sympathize with Kristol's frustration. Over the past few days we've been treated to not ...
McCain campaign vs. Kristol
Political Animal —
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN VS. KRISTOL.... Well, now I've seen everything . Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol said John McCain's campaign has really become "a pathetic campaign." In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Kristol went further, suggesting that McCain should "fire his campaign" and "start over." Asked to respond to Kristol's criticisms, McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer said on Fox News: "Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. And I used to work for Bill. And I can tell you personally sometimes he's brilliant and sometimes he's not. And ...
Lashing Out: McCain Flack Turns On Bill Kristol
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Naturally, McCain's responded through Nancy Pfotenhauer, who's accused Kristol of "buying into the Obama campaign's party line." These sentiments were similarly voiced by the ubiquitous Tucker Bounds later in the day: ...
McCain’s Campaign Says Bill Kristol Has Bought Into Obama’s Party Line
The Moderate Voice —
There are few political stories we thought we’d truly find surprising during Campaign 2008 — but here is one: in a sign that Republicans may now be forming a circular firing squad, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s camp has accused conservative New York Times columnist Bill Kristol of parroting Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s talking points.
Here’s the item via Think Progress:
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol said John McCain’s campaign has really become “a pathetic ...
Fights and the Fighters Who Fight Them
The Mahablog —
... But what’s really fascinating, in a morbid way, is watching the McCain campaign fire back at Kristol for similar criticism elsewhere — “he has bought into the Obama campaign’s party line.” ...
McCain to Kristol: Your Fired
Interesting Times —
Monday, October 13, 2008 McCain to Kristol: Your Fired Looks like the McCain campaign has decided that firing Kristol is the better approach . posted by Chris Andersen at ...
Schadenfreude Alert
Newshoggers.com —
... By BJ
I really couldn't help but laugh when I read this.
McCain campaign attacks Bill Kristol: 'He's bought into the Obama campaign's party line.'
As John Cole said a little while back, the circular firing squad is going to be fun to watch, and to some extent it already is. ...
Desperate advice for McCain.
Althouse —
You might have noticed that Bill Kristol called the McCain campaign "pathetic"... ... and wrote an op-ed saying McCain ought to fire everyone: What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over... There are still enough doubts about Obama to allow McCain to win. But McCain needs to make his case, and do so as a serious but cheerful candidate for times that need a serious but upbeat leader.... McCain can make the substantive case for his broadly centrist ...
Endorsement Season Has Begun-- And It Looks Very Bad For McCain
DownWithTyranny! —
... You know it's all over for McCain when he's even attacking Republican propagandists like Bill Kristol for being tools of the liberal media. So while legendary former North Carolina basketball ...
They're Eating Their Own
Daily Kos —
At the rate this is going, by the time November 4th rolls around, John McCain won't have any allies in the traditional media left to throw under the bus. Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol said John McCain's campaign has really become "a pathetic campaign." In his New York Times op-ed this morning, Kristol went further, suggesting that McCain should "fire his campaign" and "start over." Asked to respond to Kristol's criticisms, McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer said on Fox News: Well, you know Bill is ...
McCain campaign slams Krazy Kristol. Seriously.
The Reaction —
... "A pathetic campaign" is what Kristol called it on Sunday, and, in response, McCain campaign spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer said this yesterday: ...
McInsane camp: neo-con Kristol in the tank for Obama
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... "Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. And I used to work for Bill. And I can tell you personally sometimes he’s brilliant and sometimes he’s not. And this is one where it’s the latter category. You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into the Obama campaign’s party line." ...
Another Conservative Expelled for Dissent
PoliGazette —
... with criticism and attacks (including a charming suggestion that her mother should have aborted her) for suggesting that Palin was unqualified and a terrible pick for McCain. Bill Kristol, for saying that McCain should fire his entire campaign staff, was
said
by the campaign to have “bought into Obama campaign party line”, which is a bit like saying Richard Dawkins has bought into the James Dobson party line. ...
Blaming Kristol for Palin
Political Animal —
... " and "start over." A campaign spokesperson responded that Kristol had " bought into the Obama campaign's party line ." Kristol fired back that the McCain campaign is composed of "a bunch of nice young kids" who are " ...
