An exercise in surrealism via ThinkProgress:
WALLACE: Bill, you certainly are an expert in this area. The two leading candidates seem to be the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the original prime minister [Ayad] Allawi. From the U.S. point of view, who would we rather see?
KRISTOL: I honestly don’t know.
Kristol, of course, follows with flummery about how he just knows the election is a good thing; yet he never actually says the name of either candidate even though Wallace has just used them, and certainly never deigns to offer much of an opinion on either of them.
But to address the eloquent ignorance of William Kristol as an “expert” is just too much for words. He’s the most consistently wrong human being on television. He’s the man who suggested Sarah Palin to John McCain, said there would be no religious violence in Iraq months before the religious violence began, and occasionally says things that are the opposite of true.
The real question is why Kristol still gets asked to come on television, even right-wing television. You would think he would be among those purged for the Bush failure; you would imagine a sane, sensible right-wing media machine would stop using someone so tainted with fail.
But if you thought that way, you wouldn’t be a conservative.
