Bill Kristol Goes Full Democrat, Supports Keeping 'Roe v. Wade'

AoSHQ: Bill Kristol goes full Democrat and Morning Report 05.09.22

This is the legacy of NeverTrumpers. Trump broke them so badly that they are now for keeping Roe. 

Even Andrew Sullivan calls Kristol out...

The shamelessness of @BillKristol.
He's now opposed to repealing Roe. Never explained how or why he changed his mind. https://t.co/CChWySVN9I pic.twitter.com/YootwYv8En

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) May 9, 2022

EBL: Democrats Send Out Antifa To Mix Things Up 😬🔥

If you are conservative, Bill Kristol hates you as his chosen enemy too. They should lock him and Putin together and throw away the keys. https://t.co/MqupVRP4gV

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 9, 2022

Bears eating rotted salmon guts have craps with more substance and less foulness than pasty misogynist Steve Schmidt. 🐻🐟💩 https://t.co/UTkP3pIRsw

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 10, 2022

Be respectful: These "conservatives" are in the process of transitioning!

Pick-a-little!  

This pretty much sums it up...but all they have left are gigs as RealConservatives™ with the media

You know, like David Frum, Joe Scarborough, and Ana Navarro

EBL: I am sure the President and GOP are full of dread over these three, The Three NeverTrumper Babies, Late Night with NeverTrumpers, Jen "Mad Dog" Rubin, and The 1960 film that strangely captures the mood of Democrats this week

AoSHQ: Cuck as we say, not as we do, Max Boot: Soccer Fan, Two Cucks In One, Ahoy from Captain Concern Bill Kristol, Strzok Round-up, Morning Report

Rush Limbaugh: We all have a Smirking Peter Strzok in our lives and When will the media figure Trump out?

Instapundit: Opposite Day, Plan B, Max Boot and George Will, Don't make Bill Kristol run for President!

Washington Examiner: Did David Brooks lose his #NeverTrumper membership?

American Spectator: Collapse of Never-Trump Conservatives

TOM: In The Mailbox 07.12.18 and Deep State MuellerGate

Powerline: The Democrats Disgrace Themselves

American Thinker: NeverTrump: Just go away

Lem's Place: Strzok testifies before Congress

Twitchy: This is how they covered Romney

PCP/Woodsterman: GOLDENHAIR

Don Surber: Strzok Out

Who does Jonah think he is, Anderson Cooper? Look up "BOFA" and "Teabagging" on Urban Dictionary https://t.co/r6iWjmPKqz

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) July 13, 2018

David French completely missed the point about the NFL Anthem Protest Rule...

Kneel before political correctness! David French needs a CNN/MSNBC gig as gelded conservative!

Ace is correct about David French  

The players can protest all they want, on their time. When the cameras are rolling just before a game it is NFL time. Idiot Goodell should have shut this thing down from the start, but managed to let it turn it into a much bigger deal. During NFL events, the NFL gets to regulate what players and teams do (within reason). Telling players not to disrupt the anthem (or opt out in the locker room) is within the NFL's authority.

Of course Donald Trump injected himself into this dispute (because he saw it as a political opportunity for himself). That did not help the League. The NFL has also mostly despised Trump going back to when he started his rival league. You know why the NFL owners implemented this rule now? The drop in ratings was really hurting the NFL. The League needs this behind them.  

David French's argument seems to be conservatives were wrong to be offended in the first place. On that point, French is completely wrong. If you see someone doing something you disapprove of, you have the right to be offended. You do not have the right to act violently, but you certainly have the right to respond with withholding your viewership and spending. The smart move is to resist it.  

David French, even when he is right, comes off like such a chidey scold you want to take the opposite position. David Brooks, David Frum, David French...what is it with Davids at National Review?  They seem like they are extended job interviews for left wing media sites.  

Donald Trump was ordered by a Hawaiian judge that he cannot block people on his private Twitter account. David French takes the position Twitter is a public forum. Okay, seems inappropriate for the courts to say who and who shouldn't be banned on Twitter. Does that mean Milo, Stacy McCain and all the other people who were banned or shadow-banned get to go back on Twitter unrestricted to exercise their free speech rights?

Instapundit: Sums It All Up

[Kneeling for the national anthem] is dumb and disrespectful. I think it's a terrible thing to do...I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act. If they want to be stupid, there's no law that should be preventive."
--Ruth Bader Ginsburg 10/10/16

RACIST?!?

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) May 25, 2018

EBL: Free Speech vs. Alinsky: Fighting Back in the War of Ideas

AoSHQ: How to create a cooperatively mutually beneficial environment

TOM: In The Mailbox 05.24.18: Da Tech Guy: NFL Players & Sports Media Put The Final Nail In The Coffin For 2018 Dems and Joe For America: How Do You Feel About The NFL Now?

Is it me or is David French morphing into David Frum? 🤔

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 24, 2018

If religious displays started disrupting the NFL bottom line, yeah, the league would ban them too. Of course, religious displays do not upset fans, but protesting during the National Anthem does. https://t.co/PwuTLe94bj

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) May 24, 2018

Oligarchs of US Football League cynically suppress players’ dissent to reassure hayseed customers.

All DPRK Footballers free to dissent US racist policies.

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 23, 2018

The owners aren't doing this because they oppose the message per se. They're watching their ratings and ticket sales drop, and they're not idiots. https://t.co/PB4dD4zQRn

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 23, 2018

Another infuriating David French column. Even when I agree with his message, it’s impossible to escape the thought that he’sliving under a rock or in a fantasy country of his own imagination.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? DO YOU READ YOUR OWN MAGAZINE?https://t.co/0jc9HslLw2 pic.twitter.com/eaG9NcFshm

— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) May 21, 2018

AoSHQ: Has David French spoken out about Rod Rosenstein's contempt of Congress?

Don Surber: NFL May Penalize Kneeling

Fake News Whores and Manchester Blood Libel

Legal Insurrection: Scarborough tries to conflate Trump to Manchester Murders

Really MSNBC? There is way more evidence to argue Joe Scarborough is responsible for the death of that young female intern in his office than there is to tie Trump to Manchester. The perpetrators of Manchester were a family Libyan Muslim refugees who have pledged allegiance to ISIS/al Qaeda.  Under Scarborough's tortured logic, there is a stronger case that Obama and Hillary are responsible for Manchester than saying Trump is.  

But you know who is really responsible for the Manchester bombing?  The ISIS-Al Qaeda murderous evil losers who did it.  You know how you combat this? You can start with stop importing more evil murderous losers into Western countries.  

EBL: 20+ dead after suicide bombing in Manchester and Minnesota got lucky

AoSHQ: Vile David Frum

Instapundit: Depressing to Know, The False Rehabilitation of Brian Williams, Stay Classy David (Glenn is too nice, David From is a complete POS), and Is Joe Scarborough the next Keith Olbermann?

Mark Steyn: An Orwellian Inversion of Language, Moral Clarity and Civilizational Confidence, and "Dangerous Woman" meets Dangerous Man

Rush Limbaugh: A Civilization Devoid of Critical Thinking Cannot Defeat Islamic Terrorism

Wombat: Michelle Malkin: The Forgotten Slaughters Of The Innocents

EBL: Media ignore Obama Spying Story and Democrat Deviants

The Horn: Liberals blame Trump for Manchester

Powerline: WaPo's Budget Claims

BCF: Who to blame?

This would make a nice present for any GOPe or NeverTrumpers you may know...

For those GOPe and NeverTrumpers you may know...

You can criticize the President for the ham-fisted roll out of the Comey firing. The President definitely deserves that. It was poorly handled from a media/PR perspective. Donald Trump needs to learn how to manage his White House and media roll outs or it will hurt his presidency (this is a very different world for him than his life before politics and even coverage during his campaign). He also has the handicap of having a press that is almost 100% hostile to him and his agenda (which is more reason for him and his team to be more disciplined).  

My advice to the President: You cannot fully control the media, but you can diminish their power to hurt you. The responsibility for controlling the message from the outset goes to the President. It is okay. Learn from mistakes. Do it better next time. Control leaking from your own people. Stop stepping on your agenda.  

The decision to fire Comey was not wrong. Comey had to go. So to the GOPe and NeverTrumpers (who are still supposedly conservative), buck or cowboy up and stop hyperventilating. You are embarrassing us all. While I am critical of Erick Erickson over his reaction to this (and other things too), I also think he is a conservative and means well--but Erick needs to stop panicking! 

There are a few NeverTrumpers who should be shunned by all Republicans and Conservatives. They are not conservative and they are corrosive and damaging to all conservatives (not just Trump). A lot of them were just as bad before Donald Trump and will be just as bad after Trump is gone. I will give you a list to start: David Brooks, David Frum, Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker, Evan "The Deadbeat" McMullin. These individuals should be rejected by everyone on the right.

Don Surber: Courage Dan Rather

Smitty: A Cautionary Point about 2018

Daily Caller: Ann Coulter ready to jump off the Trump train?  She will always have Bill Maher...

Instapundit: Pro Tip for GOP Senate: Anything Schumer is for, you should be against, Richard Fernandez: Our Fragile Civilization and As the Orcs were made in parody of the Elves...

Who is the worst "conservative" pundit ever? Collective Asshats of the Day

Anyone who is familiar with David Brooks or David Frum know that they are not even remotely conservative (they are only nominally GOPe). Yet they are kept like exotic omega lap dogs of the Left, to be brought out to do little tricks and opine on how real conservatives suck. As you can guess, the Left has these two very busy with the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump.  

I am so sick of their over the top hyperbole. While in reality they probably have tiny little dicks and no testicles at all, for lack of a better term which one is the bigger dick?  

FastFreeFall notes: What about Jennifer Rubin?

More Dishonorable Mention 'Conservative' Asshat Pundits: Kathleen Parker and Bill Kristol

Washington Times: Rush Limbaugh: Pundits still don't know what they are dealing with

Small Dead Animals: RINO Frum having a melt down

TOM: Trump speaks, Liberals hear Hitler

Right Scoop: Stay classy SNL

Lem's Place: Barron Trump

AoSHQ: Why SNL Sucks

Is David Frum playing an April Fool's joke on his cocktail buddies?

Frumster says Democrats picking Hillary Clinton* would be a mistake for them...

Not that I pay much serious attention to David Frum's opinions, but I did want to run this image of Hillary and today is April Fool's Day.

* Beyond it being a mistake for the country, but David is a Canadian.

Update:
4% of voters think lizard people run the government, expect that number to go up if Hillary is elected.  
DoD is on this too!

The Three Stooges of Suck...

With friends like these, who needs enemies.

Noonan, Frum, and Brooks

Wanted for fraudulently using the title conservative

A Troika of Traitors
An Axis of Asshats
The Pigmies of Punditry

Michelle Malkin is right, these chin pullers should not be trusted.  But you have to be careful not to hurt their feelings, because they are very fragile.  And watch out Bill Kristol, you could easily end up on this list.  Update:  Kristol on Fox News Sunday did advise Romney to hit Obama on foreign policy which (while obvious) is good advice.

Matt Lewis wants to be on the list so people will pay attention to him.

In his own words: "I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap." - David Brooks, 9/19/11 michellemalkin.com/2011/09/20/fis…
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 23, 2012

Ron Reagan and @davidfrum should get together and have a 'Self-Loathe Off' on Pay-per-view. Peggy Noonan could judge.
— John Nolte(@NolteNC) September 23, 2012

My story on how Romney once sought Peggy Noonan's speechwriting help, ignored her draft, wrote his own speech instead. bo.st/RFYX6M
— Matt Viser (@mviser) September 21, 2012

These three are so busy helping the left and Obama supporters trash Romney that we are missing all of this analysis:

We should all be very glad that we have a Democratic president right now; otherwise the news would be terrible. We would be seeing a rash of horrible and depressing stories in the newspapers about strategic failure, with unremitting second guessing and belittling of a president who agonized for months before the surge and then saw his plan fail. We’d be hearing non-stop reports in the media about the incompetent and klutzy leader who torpedoed his own policy by announcing a withdrawal date; the man who tried to please everybody and do everything—and failed at all he tried...

Separated at Birth: John Roberts and ...?

John Roberts

David Frum

Guaranteed to get invited to the best cocktail parties this summer!  It is not personal guys, it is just the law!

Update:  Per McGehee's suggestion (now that you mention it I do see the resemblance...):

John Roberts

Earl Warren

Update:  Instapundit is more sanguine about this ruling:

JUNE 28, 2012

FOLLOWING UP ON MY MARBURY OBSERVATION FROM THIS MORNING: Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War: The chief justice’s canny move to uphold the Affordable Care Act while gutting the Commerce Clause. “By ruling that the individual mandate was permissible as a tax, he joined the Democratic appointees to uphold the law—while joining the Republican wing to gut the Commerce Clause (and push back against the necessary-and-proper clause as well). . . . Roberts’ genius was in pushing this health care decision through without attaching it to the coattails of an ugly, narrow partisan victory. Obama wins on policy, this time. And Roberts rewrites Congress’ power to regulate, opening the door for countless future challenges. In the long term, supporters of curtailing the federal government should be glad to have made that trade.” We’ll see.
More from the Anchoress.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 2:53 pm

I get that is what Roberts was trying to do.  That does not mean I like this ruling (and I still think it has a Frum Punch quality to it).  But I guess we will see over time.  Update:  But if this is so good, why do I feel like the Gimp in Pulp Fiction today?  Professor Jacobson advises us to stop the self delusion.  It is as bad as it looks.  Jeff Goldstein is right on this too...


There are these good points about it being a "tax":  

JUNE 28, 2012

LARRY SOLUM: The Decision to Uphold the Mandate as Tax Represents a Gestalt Shift in Constitutional Law. Those who wondered what I meant by my Lopez reference below should read this post.
Related: Chief Justice Roberts writes an opinion limiting the commerce power and the spending power.
UPDATE: Rand Simberg: If the mandate’s a tax, how can it be valid if it originated in the Senate? I thought it originated in the House, but I could be wrong.
Also, a tax repeal can’t be filibustered.
“Don’t call it a ‘mandate,’ it’s a tax!”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Justin Binik-Thomas writes: “The Senate replaced an old house bill in its entirety with what is now Obamacare. So technically it started in the house but another example of cheating.” Yes, that’s what I remembered.

But that still means to reverse we need to have 51 votes in the Senate and the White House to sign it (or 50 votes and Mitt Romeny's Veep gets to break the tie).  

Breaking: John Roberts is outside my window holding a boom box over his head.
— Brian Phillips (@runofplay) June 28, 2012

John Roberts is the Severus Snape of SCOTUS.
— Michael Foss (@Fossphate) June 28, 2012

Imagine if SCOTUS hadn't handed the election to Bush in 2000. There would have been no John Roberts on the Court to save Ocamacare.
— radleybalko (@radleybalko) June 28, 2012

Chief Justice John Roberts upholds #Obamacare & millions of GOPs finally decide there's a reason to blame Bush.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 28, 2012

Update:
The most arrogant man in the world, part II.
More hints John Roberts changed his vote...

“This could be a huge day in the evolution of Chief Justice Roberts as a great chief justice,” said Laurence H. Tribe, a liberal law professor from Harvard. Mr. Tribe, who taught Mr. Roberts, said he had not opposed his nomination because he believed Mr. Roberts was less of an ideologue than many had charged. “I have some sense of gratification,” he said.

Gag

David Frum strikes at Andrew Sullivan and Barack Obama...?

An image from
David Frum's article

A member of Tina Brown's stable.
Okay you get a carrot today. 

I am not sure if this is just Tina Brown's idea of stirring up some traffic for The Daily Beast by having her gladiatorial stable boys battle it out, and of course Frum is still Frum, but here it is.  


Prior EBL Posts: 
David Frum gets the Mark of the Beast...
A tale of two works, Andrew Sullivan and Mark Levin...
The continuing curious lies of Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan is confused about the economy


Update:  What could happen in an Obama caused debt crisis?
Obama satire:  Why not David?  Separated at Birth:  Barack Obama and...?
Update II:   Larry Summers' Secret Memo to Barack Obama! 

David Frum Gets The Mark of the Beast!

Useful Idiot or Shameless Sell-Out?

Now dance for me!

They make a great couple!   Tina uses her telekinetic powers to control her new acquisition in his most vulnerable spot.  Tina presumably said she was thrilled to get a new addition to her gladiator stable.   I hope for David's sake he got her to contractually agree to a "safe word."

The Daily Beast has scored another influential voice. David Frum is joining Newsweek and The Daily Beast, writing for both. Frum, who is a conservative D.C. blogger and former George W. Bush speechwriter, will be launching a new Beast blog on the heels of FrumForum, which boasted hundreds of contributors and reached more than 5 million readers. "When we launched, Sarah Palin was a leading candidate for president and Glenn Beck was broadcasting conspiracy theories on cable TV," Frum wrote in his farewell post. "Three years later—not so much. OK, maybe we can’t claim all the credit. But we won’t refuse some fair share." Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown tweeted, "Excited to welcome the brilliant writer and commentator* @davidfrum aboard the NewsBeast! Look fwd to a blog on Web & essays in the mag." Frum will bring contributor Noah Kristula-Green with him.

*  Did Tina think Frum was so brilliant when he was in the Bush Administration?  (I took the editorial liberty of striking a certain word and adding a " * "  to above).  

Sardonic.

Jonah Goldberg speaking of David Frum back in March 2010:

But here is my problem with what [Frum's] doing. If I were convinced by his analysis — and I am not — I still wouldn’t argue my points the way he does. If you think Rush, Beck, Hannity, Palin, et al. are bad for conservatism, that’s fine. If you think that the Right is too committed to tax cuts or that its emphasis on social issues is hurting it with the young and the affluent, that’s totally reasonable (if not necessarily persuasive or dispositive). But time and again David seems to relish and glory in the GOP’s “failures.” And this makes no sense to me... 

Instead, we get an almost giddy excitement at GOP failures or, worse, a sometimes absurd effort to spin GOP successes into failures (again, as with the McDonnell election). On the conservative front, it’s almost impossible to reconcile the Frum of ten years ago with the Frum of today. And while I don’t study the FrumForum too closely, I’ve seen little effort by David to explain his apparent philosophical transformation or why he thinks the base of the party should abandon theirs. Instead, one gets the sense that he read the polls and the long-term trends, and decided to defenestrate a lot of his old core convictions — and many of his personal and professional allegiances — to become the leader of a movement (that basically doesn’t exist).

Message to Jonah:  Hence my editting that word from the Daily Beast press release excerpt above.