Here's Jon Stewart last night chatting with William Kristol. Kristol's track record as a pundit is riddled with bad predictions and the hasty abandonment of folks he championed the week before…but he does seem to have his finger on the pulsebeat of those who set the public Conservative agenda. It's also kinda fascinating that he's developed this frozen ventriloquist smile that is always there, even when knocked out or having to defend the indefensible.
Stewart makes what I think is a solid point which Kristol can't really refute: The leaders pushing the idea that Obama is a socialist or a Marxist don't believe it for a second. It's just something they're saying because they think there are votes in it…and that a lot of people out here are stupid enough to fall for it. There are times when this kind of approach works but it sure doesn't look like it's working this time.
