Kristol: Right-Wing Media Will "Try To Be Cheerful"

Since the Weekly Standard launched in 1995, there's one scenario the conservative magazine hasn't yet faced: Democrats in control of both the White House and Congress.

But that's what lies ahead in just two months, leaving staffers there and at other media outlets on the right bracing for a period on the outside, looking in.

The Weekly Standard has long supported the national ambitions of John McCain, going back to the 2000 primary race, and boosted Sarah Palin a year before she was well known to the Lower 48. Nevertheless, editor William Kristol, speaking from the Republican Governors Association meeting, seemed to be taking the loss in stride.

"We're not going to sit around sniping and wailing and wish, 'if only things had gone differently,'" Kristol said. "We'll try to be cheerful."

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Comments

[Whinger]

Careful Bill, don't do anything that would upset your natural inclination to be a loser!

[filo]

"We"re not going to sit around sniping and wailing and wish, "if only things had gone differently,"" Kristol said. "We"ll try to be cheerful."

Bulls*#t !! They can't wait to start tearing Obama down. When has Kristol ever been right on anything?

[retspan11]

Yes, as cheerful as a smiling b*utthole. In the end, what will come out of the hole that is Kristol's mouth is still sh*t.

[Paul]

What makes Kristol think anyone will be listening?

[rabiddog6708]

He says they will need to look inward....be careful...when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

[metalpipe]

Some LSD and a day trip to the Golden Gate bridge could do wonders for our country. Please consider skipping the counselor and going straight for the revolver should your first suicide attempt fail.

[skibiketrash]

Note to William:

Buy and take Abillify by the handfull and don't ignore the suicidal tendencies.

[btanner]

This is the 21st century. Conservatism is passe. Take your overinflated egos with you when you leave the room. You are now officially irrelevant.

[tbone99]

And they probably have enough cases of top grade Scotch in their pantries to get them through til their next hate fest

[MajorKong]

Why is this guy still on my TV set?

[Toonadude]

I hope they are particularly cheerful over the next few years when they recall how George W. Bush single-handedly destroyed the Republican party. I remember catching a few minutes of Hannity's show sometime around fall 2005 or spring 2006. He was going on about how he liked Reagan but that George W. Bush was his all-time favorite president. Tune in now or over the past year and you might hear a rare reference to Bush.

[tbone99]

They refuse to admit error still. All I ever hear is how they need to reinvent their "brand"

[zippywpinhead]

cheerful?

I'd suggest they start small and work on being relevant...

[txgal44]

What the GOP needs to start doing is getting rid of guys like Kristol.

[JoeSausage]

I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe the right-wing media, and "cheerful" isn't one of them. Since Kristol has been wrong about every pronouncement that he's ever made, this comes as no surprise. The truth is, Kristol and the rest of his Neo-Con pals nearly destroyed America with their absurd PNAC fantasy. They should all be tried as traitors.

[Mercedes]

Now Kristol--the great and powerful Neo-Con who came up with the Project for the New American Century(PNAC)--now he's all the sudden wanting to play nice and 'be cheerful'? He's just feeling bad that his psychotic dream of a global US empire has been turned to dust because the US people finally woke up and realized what he and the Repubs really had in mind--us Common People pay for as many invasions as the Neo-Cons could dream up so they could get their hands on all the OIL and Natural resources they could steal. Nope, not any more. Now Kristol has to figure out what else he can do with his life.

It will be interesting to know if he will ever admit and apologize for writing the PNAC agenda that got so many of our beloved US troops and Innocent Iraqis killed...