Did anyone else see Bill Kristol on Charlie Rose?

[canichelouis]

Amazing. He's jumped the sinking ship too. Boy, was he nervous and squirrelly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Damn need to watch Nightline and now Charlie Rose?

[Democrats_win]

2. Terry Moran is on now saying the indictment is short on specifics.

Ted Koppel interviewed Howard Dean and Ted said the indictment was partisian. Hmmmm, nice editorial Ted.

Wonder if the MSM is defending crooked Tom.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. it IS the Stenography Corp

always heroic and telling us the truth with no spin :sarcasm:

[Erika]

4. Tom DeLay has been border line for years concerning ethics

and everyone knows it. For him to claim partisanship borders on the insane. But that's where many Bushbots are.

[charlie]

5. Of course, it's partisan

Meaning, if the prosecutor was Republican, today would just be another day at the office for DeLay. Guys like Lawrence Walsh are fossils from a long gone age.

[The Kicker]

6. Terry Moran

He is living down to his last name. What a ho he was tonight.

[eleny]

7. thanks - on here now!

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Did he jump the ship by criticizing bush for being too much like FDR?

I didn't see it, but that seems to be their way of backing away from a loser.

[eleny]

9. He said that they lost their intimidation factor

That was the effect of losing on Social Security. I'm surprised he said this. Oh, he also said that Dems are now thinking that Karl Rove isn't always so sharp - or something along those lines. That Rove isn't always to accomplish things. So, it was more touching on the administrations inner weaknesses. He said they're pretty rattled over so many bad things happening at once.

[bobbieinok]

10. but Kristol as a PNACer has a way .....to save the day (no doubt)

[eleny]

12. With the help of Charlie Rose

Rose asking if W can pull it out. BK isn't being that animated about agreeing. But yes, he's saying that they can regain. It's just that I'm not so convinced. No real enthusiasm on BK's part.

[me b zola]

13. That's right. He is a PNAC signatory

[nonconformist]

15. Jeeeeez... it sounds like he was being downright FRANK

Corresponds with what you would expect a PNAC'er to be thinking, but not necessarily saying in public. Color me shocked!

[charlie]

11. Didn't see it either

but I'd be surprised if Kristol criticized Bush from that angle. He's a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, he actually likes a good measure of gov't attention to domestic welfare, as long as he gets plenty of Teddy's big-stick foreign adventurism to go with it.

[canichelouis]

14. Bingo

He may have been 'off a little' with his predictions of Iraq, but he'd certainly be up for more. Very dangerous man here. And a fool.

[Lexingtonian]

16. yep

Billy tried very hard to be optimistic, and he didn't prevaricate, but you could tell that there's real despair there and premonitions that the jig is almost up. Those conservatives that are unbearable knowitalls in triumph are such wistful and borderline touchingly naive mediocrities when they see it's all ending in gentle and inevitable failure for them. Billy was clinging at straws when hoping for a Republican recovery and he knew it- he's seen this movie before, in 1990 and 1994, in 1998 and in 2002, each time a dominant wing of one of the major Parties became useless to the electorate and crashed and burned.

Re Nightline: Terry Moran is a lot smarter than people here give him credit for- he's a true master at concealing, almost perfectly successfully, that he considers Republicans insane. He's on our side, folks, on almost everything. And I was disappointed with Howard Dean- he has a way of choosing to rattle off talking points when it's not actually worth it. He would have been much more effective if he'd cut his shpiel short to a shrug and merely saying confidently and conversionationally, "Well, Ted, it's a whole Culture of Corruption among Washington Republicans that is being exposed to the American People. That's all it is."