Come To The Dark Side, We Have Kooky

And the moment where Bill Kristol did a swan dive into the abyss of Teabagger lunacy  and fully embraced the nihilist philosophy has been marked for posterity's sake.

We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment. But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, or a set of crises, and we may well be at a decisive moment for the country.

This sense of crisis is what animates the Tea Parties. I had the pleasure of attending the “Proud to be an American July 4th Tea Party” outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It featured patriotic songs and speeches, and expressions of support for our troops and praise for our country. Yet the mood of patriotic gratitude was mixed with expressions of alarm from my fellow Tea Partiers about the administration now in charge of our government. The combination of patriotic gratitude and urgent alarm produces a determination to act and a willingness to deal boldly with the crises in the economy, in foreign policy, and in self-government that the country faces.

In this respect, the Tea Parties are ahead of the two major parties. As established political parties are wont to do, both remain constricted in their views, attached to business as usual, and invested in established modes and orders—too much so to easily come to grips with a moment like the present.

Kristol throws not only the Democrats under the bus, but the Republican Party as well, and buys fully into the Second American Revolution nonsense.  Not that Kristol had much common sense to begin with:  after all, as one of the main cheerleaders for the costly and deadly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the Bush tax cuts and deregulation of everything, Kristol's batting zero on supporting "ideas that worked".  Perhaps his embrace of the Tea Party shows just how completely bankrupt these guys are in the idea department.

But Kristol actually admits that himself towards the end of his rant.

I was telling a friend about the Philly Tea Party, noting a few eccentric proposals from some of its participants. He commented, “Well, that’s better than talking points.” He’s right. At this moment, bold and seemingly impolitic or impractical ideas are more useful than the diligent repetition of mostly sensible short-term critiques and proposals. At a moment like this, talking points are not enough.

In other words, not only does Kristol admit that the "conservative" policies he's called for over the last thirty years are nothing more than useless talking points, he then goes on to admit that he believes the only hope America has is to fully embrace the crazy of the Tea Party nihilism.

The Stupid isn't working.  Let's go with the Stupid and Insane instead!  To recap, everything Bush did to wreck our country was fine with these assholes for eight years, 18 months of Obama however requires a revolution.

I miss having two political parties in this country that weren't bugnuts.

[UPDATE]  BooMan has more on this.

Kristol wants change to come from one of the two major parties after all. But he wants the GOP to become the party of 'radical choice.' He doesn't actually express a single radical idea that the GOP should promote, probably because he considers them crazy or impractical. He starts out quoting Alexander Hamilton and telling us we need to basically redo the Constitution which is now as flawed as any Articles of Confederation. He ends by telling us that the GOP needs to be open to the fundamental reforms espoused by people he thinks are loons.

And the essay seemed to have so much promise. 

That's about perfect, yes.