That's pretty easy to figure. Kristol's transparently self-serving and he's following Scaife's lead, here. They honestly can't stand Hillary, I'm fairly sure, but it all goes back to the fact that they are legitimately and profoundly afraid of Obama as the Dem nominee. That trumps their likely visceral loathing for the Clintons, which was never really that ideologically rational to begin with. The DLC 'Third Way' was a big, fat nod to neocon hegemony-mongering on its face. You add in Clintonian welfare reform, etc. and you get something much more compatible with modern Republicanism than that which Obama seems to represent. And all the wingers know it.

If I was a clintonista, I'd be embarrassed by this one, or at least have something to say about Billy K.
But instead, Not. A. peep.

I guess it's not just right-wingers that can ignore uncomfortable facts.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

Here's why. Kristol is using the NY Times to give a wider audience to this piece by Richelieu at The Weekly Standard

The Perfect Storm: The GOP should give Hillary a Prize

Winning Pennsylvania is the worst thing that could have happened to Hillary Clinton. Had she lost, her now ragtag campaign would have been mercifully put out of its long misery. Barack Obama alone would be accountable for his general election performance.

 Instead, Clinton won Pennsylvania's primary with a strong margin and the Democratic race has a new media narrative. Obama is no longer the perfect general election juggernaut, inspiring new voters and driving fear into the hearts of Republicans. He's become a general election loser who cannot attract the vital votes of white blue collar Democrats.

While all of this cocktail party supposition is unproven since the actual general election is months away and spring primaries are very different contests from fall elections, the damage to Obama has been done. Weeks from now, when the dust settles after a few more final primaries and the odd Clinton tactical victory, the pre-convention rubbishing of Barack Obama will be complete and the credit for most of it will go to Hillary Clinton.

She is likely to pay a price for it in the future, when it is likely she will at least try to run again. She will face a penalty for wounding a presumptive Democratic nominee and helping make a general election race far more competitive than anyone thought it would be.

In fact, if the GOP has a large Bronze medal of distinction, we should cast one at once and gleefully award it to Mrs. Clinton for her meritorious service to our cause.

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Since, as every superdelegate knows, stripping Obama of the nomination for anything short of committing a felony or making a praiseful remark about Dick Cheney would tear the Democratic party into pieces, such a reversal in Mrs. Clinton's bleak fortunes is very unlikely.

Yet she stays in. Wishing and hoping and striving for political disaster to strike the campaign of Barack Obama, the near certain Democratic nominee. Anyone who once had doubts about Mrs. Clinton's loyalty to the interests of the Democratic party instead of to her own ambition now has their answer.

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It really is something, isn't it?

omigodwe'reallgonnadie!

~~~THIS SPACE FOR RENT~~~

The country-club set is comfortable with Hillary, who is as far from socialism as you can get.  If she loses, Dr. Zhivago comes home to find thirteen families camped in his mansion.  We might lose interest in obliterating whole countries.

I think it's the last throes of our capitalist system.  The wealthy are seeing their future taking shape south of the border.  We're a banana republic now and are finding a better way.

The wingers need to turn this election into a contest of personalities rather than ideas, and it's too hard for them to embrace  (not to mention respect) Hillary.

They're scared and divided.  Yes we can: seize this moment and  protect our republic.