Defending Rove: Bill Kristol’s un-conservative conservatism

This should hardly come as a surprise, but Weekly Standard editor and Fox News-frequenting neocon-Straussian Bill Kristol does not think that President Bush should fire Karl Rove (or, presumably, that Rove should resign). He does, however, think that Bush must remain “a polarizing president”.

First it was his culture of conservative victimhood, now it’s his essentially un-conservative conservatism.

Kristol, whom I’ve had the opportunity to meet a couple of times (my dissertation supervisor at the University of Toronto is his former teacher at Harvard), is one of the smartest people on the right. But he’s fast turning into little more than a well-educated partisan hack who promotes the good of the Republican Party over the good of America.