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Mo MoDo
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
So Papa Kristol was painfully wrong on both ends of the political spectrum. What a family tradition to leave behind.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
one of the founders of selling the ideology of the ruling classes to the proles and teaching them to embrace it as their own
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Tremonius
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
" ...`cutting tax rates in order to stimulate steady economic growth.'"

Taxcutting is like praying to that set. The advocates don't seem to mind there is absolutely no evidence it has ever worked.
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Mediahohoho
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
I kind of like the irony: the millions of born again Christians he inspired must concede that, even if they got every polluted political idea they lay claim to from Irving Kristol, tonight, their intellectual godfather is roasting in the hell of their (the born againers') fervid imaginations. Because that's what they believe.
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Baroness
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
I'm superstitiously loath to speak ill of the recently departed. But I'm glad you haven't sugar-coated his awful influence.

When's that lazy bastard son of his going to get a real job? Compete in the marketplace and all that? The hypocritical nepotism of wingnut-welfare recipients is something one must see to be believed.

(I'm worried about Gore Vidal now. A premonition he won't last the year.)
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Gawkerati
09/18/09

@Baroness: Are you lambasting Kristol or Kennedy?
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Baroness
09/18/09

@Gawkerati: Thanks to John Cook for promoting this flea of a comment. I don't know which Kennedy the dorkishly named "Gawkerati" is referring to, so I'll just tell the bitch to lay off Jackie. Monstrous to attack a widow like that.
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Mediahohoho
09/19/09

@Baroness: I think it was Rosemary, post-lobotomy. An apt comparison to Bill Kristol if ever there was one, but typically mean nonetheless.

And, yeah, Cook, was this witty or something? I missed it.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
I think he was spending the summer watching the Republicans devolve into some hogpile of racist xenophobes and birthers and thought "Screw this shit, I am outta here."
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scottthesot
09/18/09

@TheUptightMidwesterner: I think he looked at it more like "My job is done."
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SanjivaniChrysippus
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
He managed to bastardize both Leo Strauss and Tocqueville. What an accomplishment.
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Awesome X
09/18/09

In reply to Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
At least he got to see his son become chief of staff to Dan Quayle.
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