Tom Cotton’s political nightmare: How we know for sure his letter was a failure

[DonViejo]

Bill Kristol, neocon operative who's wrong about everything, thinks the Iran letter was a brilliant maneuver. Uh-oh

JIM NEWELL

For anyone who had any doubt that Sen. Tom Cotton’s dumb letter to Iran was anything less than a total tactical failure that backfired spectacularly, the final proof is in: Bill Kristol, the neoconservative editor of the Weekly Standard who is famously wrong about everything, has declared it a raging success.

It is not surprising that Kristol played a hand in bringing Cotton’s letter to fruition and establishing Cotton’s national reputation as a laughingstock. Kristol, who fancies himself a conservative foreign policy intellectual but is mostly just a Republican political operative, likes to take on “projects” in the form of aspiring conservative talent and then prematurely ruin their careers. The list includes Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin and, now, Tom Cotton.

Kristol somehow landed a lead editorial in the latest issue of his own magazine in which he defends Cotton, as well as Bibi Netanyahu and Trey Gowdy, for pushing conservatism forward against the wishes of the weak-willed D.C. Establishment. (The same D.C. Establishment to which Bill Kristol has belonged for several decades, we might add. You know those infamous “Beltway cocktail parties”? Kristol emcees most of them.)

If brow-furrowing were thinking, the Republican establishment would be geniuses. If hand-wringing were prudence, GOP politicians would be exemplars of Aristotelian virtue. If tongue-clucking were eloquence, conservative elites would be orators for the ages.

But of course Trey Gowdy, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Tom Cotton have done more for conservative principles and Republican prospects in the last few weeks than the brow-furrowers, hand-wringers, and tongue-cluckers have done in years.

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[liberal N proud]

1. When Face the Nation only had Cottonball and then three Democrats on, I knew

Face the Nation always has more right wing assholes on than Democrats and Sunday was completely different.

[Gothmog]

2. Cotton is a true idiot