FDR.... Bill Kristol, on Fox News earlier, describing Sarah Palin's career in politics after today:
"She has a future, she may not run in four years if McCain loses. Franklin Roosevelt, as a 38 year old, lost the vice presidential race. He became governor of New York and then was elected twelve years from [then].... She reminds me a lot of FDR. I just said that so that can go -- the left wing blogs can go crazy."
For a while, Fred Barnes and others were comparing Palin to Ronald Reagan, but leave it to Kristol to crank things up a notch and go for FDR.
As for Kristol's desire to drive "left wing blogs" "crazy," I think Atrios summarized the problem nicely, in a short note to the Weekly Standard editor: "You don't make us crazy, just our media system which promotes ignorant buffoons like you."
—Steve Benen 1:38 PM
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