Bill Kristol Advises Sarah Palin to Get Dirty

Leave it to Bill Kristol to drop names and to say the Wrong Stuff.

In his New York Times, “The Wright Stuff” column, Kristol—who met Sarah Palin once in Alaska over a year ago—pretends that he now knows her intimately. Intimately enough to give her the wrong advice on the Wright Stuff.

Kristol not only feels it is great for Palin to muck-rake, exaggerate and even lie about Barack Obama’s “palling around with terrorists,” but now he wants her to also resuscitate the sleaze and lies about Obama’s “connections” to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. This is the 24/7, endless loop slime that Fox News used several months ago, but that the American people have rejected (witness the polls) in favor of discussing real issues, such as the economy, the economy, and the economy…(Witness the stock market—the Dow—just tanking to below 9,900).

But, a desperate McCain campaign might just listen to a desperate Bill Kristol and get back into the gutter. They will be doing that at their own risk. I believe that after 18 months of scrutiny, investigation, and Obama talking to the American people, they know by now “who the real Barack Obama is,” without the help of the likes of Bill Kristol, and without the winks, “doggone’s,” “you betcha’s,” and shrill exaggerations and lies by Sarah Palin.

Finally, after Sarah Palin had the temerity to tell Senator Joe Biden during the debate Thursday night, “Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq,” Kristol brings up the deployment of Sarah Palin’s son, Track, to Iraq. Kristol relates how much Palin cares for and worries about her son—as she should.

But what Kristol does not mention is that the morning following the debate, Joe Biden traveled to Dover, Delaware, to bid farewell to his son, Joseph “Beau” Robinette Biden, and to his fellow 261st Signal Brigade soldiers, who were heading off to combat in Iraq. While Kristol mentions “the military mom,” he does not mention “the military dad.”

Joe Biden has never waved the white flag of surrender, nor have those who oppose this disastrous war. Beau Biden will be proudly waving the American flag in Iraq—not the white flag.

Sarah Palin was way out of line with her scurrilous remarks to Joe Biden. At the very least, Gov. Palin owes an apology to the Senator and his family–if not to the American people.

Doggone, can we expect Bill Kristol to call Joe Biden a “military dad?” You betcha, no!