Ablogination

The fewer the better. That’s the sad reality of American existence.

Though no one really wants to rejoice in the demise of another, when a threat to our nation and our people departs for the dark, dingy yonder it can, in a strange kinda way, bring relief.
So much like that flu that finally left one’s body, another one of the long time enemies of the American people has bitten the dust.

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.

“His wisdom, wit, good humor and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several generations of thinkers and public servants,” said the editors of The Weekly Standard in announcing Kristol’s death on its Web site. He died of complications from lung cancer.

Kristol was the husband of critic-historian Gertrude Himmelfarb and father of neoconservative editor and commentator William Kristol, an editor of The Weekly Standard.

A Trotskyist in the 1930s, Kristol would soon sour on socialism, break from liberalism after the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and in the 1970s commit the unthinkable – support the Republican Party, once as “foreign to me as attending a Catholic Mass.”

He was a New York intellectual who left home, first politically, then physically, moving to Washington in 1988. He was a liberal “mugged by reality,” his turn to the right joined by countless others, including such future GOP Cabinet officials as Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Bennett and another neoconservative founder, Norman Podhoretz.

Kristol Sr. now joins his recent fellow departures, Jack Kemp and Robert Novak, on the train to oblivion.
Hey, Bill. Like father, like son?

Rest in pieces, Neo-Con.