I guess Cooper’s just getting around to reading his back copies of The Weekly Standard. If memory serves, Bill Kristol & Co.sequentially supported Powell and McCain back in 2000. Then when Bush won the nomination, the Standard proclaimed the death of the Republican Party, a total electoral debacle, etc. etc.

I am second to none in the “failed electoral predictions” competition, but the Standard does give me a run for the blue ribbon. Not to mention that Powell would have been a terrible president, and, hoping to be wrong, I have profound doubts about McCain.