Bill Kristol: "I Recommend The Politics Of Fear"

Think Progress:

This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the "politics of fear" to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL):

KRISTOL: [Obama's] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.

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Comments

[Klip]

Kristol To Clinton: "I Recommend The Politics Of Fear"

After all- it's worked for RayGoon and both Bushes...

[leftLibertarian]

Kristol should be thankful no one has offed him.

[lungfish]

In fact it is a short hop from the "politics of fear" to a false flag op... probably the next page in the PNAC/GOP manual..

[lungfish]

It would seem fitting to picture Kristol in a black leather greatcoat, shiney black boots, and an Wafen SS officers uniform and hat as he expounds on the legitimacy of lying to people to scare them into doing what you want them to do???
Sieg Heil!

[CheshireCat2]

He forgot the rest of the quote. I believe it is "fear, intimidation and the threat of violence. What I can't wait for, is just to see how long it takes Chris Matthews to stick his foot in his mouth today. I can't believe I actually quit listening to these guys on MSNBC for a few years. This group is better than SNL, well almost.

[TexasDem0]

This is a perfect example of the old adage, “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” What else do the neo-cons have besides fear? They can’t run on their record. Even now, they’re stonewalling investigations in Congress. Why would they block investigations, unless they know they’ll end up like Duke Cunningham?

[Semper]

Well I must admit that Kristol let you know how the Neo Conservatives and Republicans win elections. And to be honest, it works. And I bet the house on it that next week, Hillary will be using the tactic.

[villastrangiato]

I know what you're all thinking - Kristol is a pitiful excuse for human excrement that should have been flushed down a Tel Aviv toilet long ago....but think of it this way - he's stupid enough to admit on national television (yes, I know it's Fixed News but alot of Sheeple still watch it, ok?) that Obama is right about the neocon's use of the "politics of fear". So just stop and think for a bit, like Bob Novak, why would we want to silence the blathering idiot if he exposes the criminal activity of evil people in powerful government positions?

[truthyguy]

In other words, Hillary should do exactly what Rove and Bush did. Divide the country into camps based on religion and fear.

Why is this guy on TV and why does he have any forum in the media? Someone should chronicle how totally off base Kristol has been on his so-called analysis of the political scene. He gets almost nothing even remotely correct and is just carrying water for what's left of the Bush white house. I say we bury him with his own words.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

I wish someone would ask him about his neo-liberal Trotskyist (Communist) father Irving Kristol, it’s no accident that the early neo-cons came out the Trotskyite movement of the 1920s and 30s. Richard Viguerie a prominate conservative mentioned in an interview at CPAC event several weeks ago that real conservatives will be forced out the Republican Party. Frankly I think that Richard Viguerie is as crazy as the rest of them, but he is a lot more practical in his views than ideologues like the neo-cons and fundamentalist Christian conservatives. Viguerie has not been a fan of the George Bush or Dick Cheney and openly attacks them for violating conservative principles. Viguerie also believes that the Republicans will be out of power and deserves to be for many yeras.

You can check the lineage of any prominent neo-con and most of them have their roots in the Trotskyism a liberal international form Marxism based on democratic rather than socialist principles, although I believe this form of democracy has little in common with our own. The neo-conservatives-liberals remind me of a virus invading a host organism. Irving Kristol’s generation would have gladly become Democrats in the 1930s and 60s, if they had been embraced. The neo-cons wondered in the political landscape until they joined the Regan coalition and hence neo-conservatism was born as a real political movement.

Bill Krsitol is a true believer, he follows the tenants of unilateral internationalism to the letter and he and his contemporaries’ mostly elite ideologues will ruin the United States in order to achieve the objectives of Trotsky style Marxism laid down 60 years. Neo-conservatism is now increasingly more counter to the direction the country wants to go.

[Tankan]

Kristol clear, verbal terrorist!

Patriot he's not!

[eahce]

It is clear to see where Mr. Kristol's interest's lie, unfortunately it is not with this country. Mr Kristol and his pack of unsavory characters have way too much control over this present administration.

[VivaZapata]

"over this present administration" and the media, and the rest of the telecommunications industry, etc.

[VivaZapata]

Apparently, from this and other statements, this major screw up is proud to be a creep. The more Republicans tread down the neocon path, the more self destructive their situation becomes. Is he planning a September or October surprise?

[wsblake]

Kristol is a despicable warmonger and a traitor to our country.Like all neocons his loyalty is either to Korporate profits, to Israel or to both- certainly not to America.

[TheHunt]

hey wouldnt it be nice if we could take snotnosed little bill out back and shoot him in the head with pappy's old huntin gun?

bill krystal and these hick jackasses are would make me angry in american life.