Oprah Winfrey’s hypothetical presidential campaign has a new big fan — anti-Trump conservative Bill Kristol.
Kristol sent several tweets Monday indicating his support for the former talk show host:
Oprah.#ImWithHer
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Pro-regime change in Iraq (see her Oct. 9, 2002 show).#ImWithHer
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Friend of Allan Bloom (see her show “How Dumb Are We?” from I believe 1988).#ImWithHer
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Sounder on economics than Bernie Sanders, understands Middle America better than Elizabeth Warren, less touchy-feely than Joe Biden, more pleasant than Andrew Cuomo, more charismatic than John Hickenlooper.#ImWithHer
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Younger than Sanders, Biden, Warren, and Hickenlooper.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Every Democrat to win the presidency in this century is from Chicago.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
“I will finish what you started” pic.twitter.com/ujL9Aqfbfb
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 8, 2018
Overwhelmed by gratitude to this great nation as she accepts the nomination of her party in 2020. pic.twitter.com/DEtbjvwSgu
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Oprah: Pro-manliness.
(Oprah’s magazine on Mansfield’s “Manliness”: “Thoughtful, vexing and ultimately irresistible.”)— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
And, of course: Oprah came from infinitely more challenging circumstances than Trump, is wealthier than Trump, has read more books than Trump, is more stable than Trump, and isn’t under investigation by the Justice Department unlike Trump.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 8, 2018
Kristol has a long history of bad political predications, and based on his recent Twitter history, we’re not sure if this is a genuine endorsement or just an expert piece of trolling.
His most recent prediction was that the GOP tax bill wouldn’t “even get a vote” in Congress in 2017, when in fact it passed before years end. (RELATED: Bill Kristol: ‘I Was Wrong’ About The GOP Tax Bill)
In 2006, Kristol said, “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.”
He also tweeted in 2016, “There will be an independent candidate–an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance,” also saying before the 2016 GOP convention, “Prediction: 2016 GOP MVP will be @Reince, who steps up, ensures open convention, saves party from Trump and produces ticket that wins in Nov.”