Riding to the defense of Sarah Palin, the Weekly Standard's Kristol wrote:

The hostility of the GOP establishment may be an obstacle to her success. On the other hand, given the performance of GOP operatives and pols over the past few years, maybe their opposition isn't a bad thing.

Kristol mocks GOP campaign operatives who ridicule Palin (what do they know?!) because they're the same people responsible for recent GOP election losses.

Slight problem. Kristol himself is a GOP campaign operative and is as responsible as anybody else for the Republican Party's poor showing last November. Kristol pretends he's just a detached observer of Republican politics. But everyone knows that's a ruse because Kristol was knee-deep in the McCain campaign.

Just last week, Politico identified Kristol as “an informal adviser to Sen. John McCain.” That came in a detailed article about how Kristol and other GOP insiders were still re-fighting the battle of who was to blame for McCain's November loss.

And as I noted last year:

In February, right after Kristol joined the Times, McClatchy Newspapers reported that Kristol was part of McCain's “foreign policy team.” Kristol denied the report, and his Times boss confirmed that as a columnist he would not be allowed to advise any candidate.

So how did the McClatchy reporter get the story wrong? Because McCain aides told the reporter that Kristol was an adviser.

Also, last year Newsweek reported, “McCain receives advice from several generations of Republican strategists ... [including] William Kristol.”

Fox News, which actually employs Kristol as an analyst, announced that “The top of McCain's team includes ... Bill Kristol” among "[i]nformal advisers." And The Daily Beast explained how Kristol was deeply involved in the selection of Palin as McCain's VP.

Kristol dismisses “GOP operatives” as know-nothings, but I'm not sure he escapes the charge.