As far as Bill Kristol is concerned, it’s never too early to start psyching yourself up for the next presidential election. Especially when you’ve got someone really, really awesome in mind.
And when you’re looking for someone really, really awesome, only a fellow member of the Resistance will do. That’s why Bill’s got his fingers crossed that in 2024, he’ll have a chance to pull the lever for Liz Cheney, the best kind of Republican.
But if Cheney decides not to seek out the GOP nomination, while Bill will be disappointed for sure, he at least already has a backup plan in mind:
If Liz runs for the Republican nomination in 2024, I'll donate. I'd vote for her in the VA primary if it could make a difference. But I'm doubtful that will be the case. I think it's more likely that in 2024 I'll be voting not for a Reagan Republican but for a Zelensky Democrat.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 15, 2022
Ooo … you have our attention, Bill. Tell us more!
Who, you ask, is going to be that Zelensky Democrat?
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 15, 2022
Wow, Latin? We’re all very impressed.
"The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."– Virgil, Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126-129, trans. John Dryden
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 15, 2022
We’ve been going pretty hard on Bill Kristol in recent years, but knowing that he’s read the Aeneid makes us wonder if maybe we were wrong to question his seriousness and integrity.
We kid, of course.
You'll be voting for a Democrat? No way! https://t.co/nVjh2jVx00
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 15, 2022
Not just any Democrat, but a Zelensky Democrat.
Zelensky Democrat? Lmao what does that even mean. https://t.co/uIXxksQ4pd
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) March 15, 2022
It means a Democrat. It means that Bill Kristol is going to vote for Democrat. Volodymyr Zelensky literally has nothing to do with it, but Bill’s apparently hoping that because Zelensky has admirers across the political spectrum, plunking “Zelensky” in front of “Democrat” confers instant respectability and quality of character.
Given how much the Bill Kristol endorsement helped Terry McAuliffe I'm sure Republicans are panicking LOL https://t.co/W5JEz4paF0
— pill throwing MD (@super_mario_21) March 15, 2022
Oh man … that’s right! We’d almost forgotten about that entry in Bill Kristol’s Big Book of Very Public Humiliations. That one was particularly schadenfreudelicious, wasn’t it? Bill’s turned into a pretty irritating and insufferable type of guy, but we can’t help but be utterly transfixed by his amazing lack of self-awareness.
GP So you're a Democrat, completing the full circle from your father.
That is, your father becoming a neocon Republican after his disillusionment with fundamentally unserious Democrats to you abandoning neocon Republicanism in favor of being a fundamentally unserious Democrat. https://t.co/RbewU6uHNJ
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) March 15, 2022
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
https://twitter.com/JoeChalfant/status/1503740073245876229
Bill Kristol seems to be hurtling in space, untethered to anything but deluding himself that he is still relevant. https://t.co/i5c1kEgCDZ
— Sharma (@bansisharma) March 15, 2022
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