Tag Archives: Bill Kristol

Talking Points Memo reports: On Wednesday morning, a commercial bolstering Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s credentials and advocating that he complete his Russia investigation aired during Fox and Friends in the Washington D.C. market. The ad came from a group called Republicans for the Rule of Law led by Bill Kristol, editor at large at the Weekly Standard. The group’s website …

The far-right Washington Free Beacon today began selling $99 walkers for its readers that want to go as Hillary Clinton on Halloween. Ten bucks off with the keyword “prison.” Oh, the hilarity. The Free Beacon was launched in 2012 by the far-right Center For American Freedom, which is the spawn of the Emergency Committee For Israel. Bill Kristol sits on …

From the right wing Weekly Standard: Dear, Governor Romney: You have served your nation admirably for many years and by any ordinary standard are entitled to a happy retirement. But these are extraordinary times, and your nation still has need of your service. I respectfully implore you to run for president as an independent candidate in 2016. Donald Trump is …

In his own words at the National Review: Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States. I gave it serious thought — as a pretty darn obscure lawyer, writer, and veteran — …

As we all just learned, Bill Kristol’s mystery independent presidential candidate has turned out to be David French, a virtually unknown former lawyer for the viciously anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom. Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro is kind of thrilled. He writes: If there’s going to be a third party candidate, nobody would make me happier than David French. French, for …

Bloomberg reports: Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristol’s efforts to recruit an independent presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have told Bloomberg Politics that the person Kristol has in mind is David French—whose name the editor of the Weekly Standard floated in the current issue of the magazine. French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. …

Via CBS News: Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol sent out a provocative tweet Sunday, suggesting that another presidential candidate — an independent — would be entering the race for the White House over the holiday weekend. Kristol said no more Sunday evening, beyond the tweet, which referred to the yet-to-be-named candidate as “an impressive one, with a strong team and …

From Bill Kristol’s op/ed piece in the NY Times: Obama has selected Yale’s Elizabeth Alexander to compose and read a poem. I still remember watching Maya Angelou read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993 — and thinking that American culture really was in a state of irreversible decline, as she indulged in that multicultural cataloguing …