Thrashing Bill Kristol

I GUESS it's Republican thrashing day. Time columnist Joe Klein: "Sometimes it is great, cruel fun watching Bill Kristol dash about, attempting to be a power broker. He's a smart, cynical tactician--but power? The Gods are too smart for such indulgences. He loved the idea of Sarah Palin ... until it became clear that the public saw her as a more plausible candidate for Celebrity Apprentice than for high office. Now, Kristol has pathetically tried to promote a "young guns" Republican presidential ticket of Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio for 2012. Ain't gonna happen. But it does give an indication of how Kristol feels about the current hopeless crop of hopefuls. [...] Why is Kristol doing this, aside from desperation? Neither Ryan nor Rubio knows a jot about foreign policy. Neither does Kristol, but he thinks he does and loves to play ballistic from his armchair."