You could've knocked me over with a feather

Fake conservative (but real grifter) Bill Kristol has endorsed former Clinton bagman Terry McLowlife for governor of Virginia over Republican  Glenn Youngkin. Naturally, this is seen in some liberal quarters as another example of a conservative rising above partisanship to endorse the better man.

Labels, and how people view them, can be a tricky business. My former boss at the federal agency where I worked used to take me for a conservative Republican, although I never really talked much about politics. He was right, of course, but since he was an inside-the-beltway creature who, nonetheless, refused to identify his own party affiliation (he could have taught a master class in Covering One's Ass), I thought he was being needlessly provocative in kidding me about my presumed politics in front of the many Democrat high panjandrums in the agency (this was a guy who, throughout most of 2016, thought it was the most hilarious thing in the world to simply blurt out the name, "Trump" when people were talking about the year's upcoming election; he stopped laughing after Trump was nominated, and the day after the election he looked as if he had somehow accidentally stuck his finger in an electrical outlet; the same shocked expression). He once thought it would be funny to draw attention to my perceived political leanings at a meeting of rather senior people. I let him have his fun, and then contradicted him publicly, telling him that, far from being a Republican, I was, in fact, an anarcho-syndicalist, who had only the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois democracy, and that I considered both major political parties to be conspirators in a long-running plot to deny the worker his just rights - a plot, in fact, that would only be undone when the streets ran red with the blood of the monied class. He pretty much stayed off the subject of politics after that.