Too long to copy in its entirety here, but worth a read:
THE TRUE CON(S)
GREGORY HOOD ·
MAY 18, 2016
Having failed to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination, the “true conservatives” of the Republican Party are making a bold stand, proclaiming they would rather lose then forego their principles. And the most vocal grassroots leader behind this “movement” is… Weekly Standard editor (((Bill Kristol.)))
Kristol says it’s not Trump’s policies that are the issue. It’s his “
character.” “It is clear that Donald Trump does not have the character to be president of the United States,” Kristol intones, without elaborating why.
Of course, this is isn’t the first time Kristol has kvetched like this. In 1996, Kristol moaned that Pat Buchanan was an
existential threat to the “conservatism” of real Republican leaders like Newt Gingrich. (Back in The Current Year, Gingrich may end up being Trump’s Vice-Presidential pick or Chief of Staff.)
Kristol
says he is deeply concerned about having a candidate “who cares about the Constitution, who cares about limited government.” But when Ron Paul was running for president, Kristol said Paul was “not a good guy,”
that it would be betterfor the GOP if Paul left, and that even Paul’s role in the debates was destructive.
Trump’s character has nothing to do with it. Nor can Trump’s supposed heresy from “true conservatism” be taken seriously when Kristol is putting himself up as the arbiter of orthodoxy. Kristol is a self confessed “
liberal” on immigration. It was Kristol who lectured conservatives in 2008 on the
futility of championing “small government.” It was Kristol
who called himself a “squish” on gun control and urged Democrats to push more gun control legislation. The Second Amendment is perhaps the one area where the conservative movement hasn’t proved itself entirely useless over the last half century, but the people who run the Beltway Right don’t believe the
paper worshipping pabulum they vomit up to sustain the “grassroots.”
http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2016/5/16/the-true-cons