Shorter Bill Kristol:

"Real patriots shut up and shoot whoever they're told to shoot."

(Longer Response at Hullabaloo c/o Tristero. But that's about the gist of it.)

Oh, and once again, slipping bullshit unsupported claims under the radar like this one:

Now in almost every empirical respect, American lives have in fact gotten better over the last quarter-century.

Isn't going to fly in 2008, buddy. Your fellow columnist wrote a rather good book going into exhaustive detail about why you're unbelievably full of shit on that one.

He'd probably tell you so, if you weren't so obviously a sop to the most ridiculous form of tokenism in the Union and thus not worth his time.