Clintons Redux
A Clinton re-run is likely to be disastrous, and at the least, just as scandalous. Andrew Sullivan gets it right.
If she is the nominee, it will be the two of them again. The real risk is that it will mean the same never-ending psycho-drama, the same petty sleaze, the same constant beat of marital-political intrigue that we endured in the 1990s. It's worth recalling: just because their enemies were often vile doesn't mean the Clintons didn't give plenty to work with - often needlessly. Another term of the two of them could well lead to the same kind of sexual scandals that distracted and near-paralyzed affairs of state in the 1990s. If you don't believe that, then you simply haven't grasped the depth of Bill Clinton's needs and compulsions and Hillary Clinton's life-long enabling of them.
posted by Dave | 11:41 AM
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Sullivan couldn't be more wrong. In fact, as a conservative (whatever that means these days apart from a clean taste for pure thuggery), he shouldn't be making threats against the Clintons.
He forgets, as most Republicans do, that the Clinton administration was successful in beginning the long way back from theocracy; that it took cheating at the highest levels of constitutional government to keep the reaction against the GOP and the Christianists from going forward in 2000; and that that restorative process seems determined to move forward in 2008.
Bottom line is that most Americans would welcome the Clintons back to the White House. In any event, Sullivan should be reminded about stones and glass houses.
While a lot of so-called conservatives are in favor of a kind of theocracy, as SSM puts it, I don't think most are. I certainly bemoan the direction the Republican party has taken with regard to fundamentalist religion, but I can't bring myself to support the far-leftist philosophy that Hillary and her team espouse. Government takeover of health care is her long-term goal, as is general redistribution of wealth. She tries to hide these objectives, but they slip out occasionally. I disagree that most Americans would welcome the Clintons back. In my opinion, they are probably two of the most dishonest people in American politics and it seems obvious to me.
For the record, I don't like to call myself a conservative--the term carries two much knee-jerk baggage, and a lot of my opinions get mistaken for left-wing liberalism, so I guess I'm more like a libertarian, although they have their own nut-jobs.
(PS: Thanks for the comments, SSM).
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