Thread: PNAC, Kristol, Bush, Palin

So I'm watching Fox news Sunday and we see a months old prediction by Bill Kristol that Palin should be the VP nominee for the Republicans.

I am reminded that before GW Bush ran for President, Kristol's PNAC foreign policy team helped "orient him."

Now I'm probably as close to a Neocon as you'll find (though I do not have a membership card or a decoder ring), but I am persuadable that the PNAC boys are still actively trying to shape policy.

So does anyone have any tangible mainstream evidence that our buddies from PNAC are still active?

Woodward's latest book on Bush and his "private vision" seems to blow up the idea that Pnac was pulling his strings. But are they still trying to shape executive level politics?

So all you Neocon haters, got any clues for us?

Bush is too stupid to do any of that stuff "by himself". He needs like-minded morons to carry out his pipe dreams.

The PNAC "as an entity" is long dead, but, all the PEOPLE have re-incarnated. Sure, they're still out there.

Scheunemann, right? In McCain's campaign? Committee to Liberate Iraq?

They're still up the same old crap. Think tanks like AEI and Hudson Institute, generate these ideas based on funding from places like AIPAC (and endowments too, but lobbyists too), and then they sell a bill of goods by "publishing" in various "authoritative" journals and so on.

Yes, they're grooming Palin right now. You've been following her itinerary? They had her in for several days' worth of "indoctrination" (curiously enough, at the same time she was getting her security briefings).

Doesn't look good....