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| Democrat Fratricide: "these people are clearly nasty to anyone who disagrees with them" |
| 2008-04-04 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review Randi Rhodes called Hillary a ‘[bad word]ing whore.’ In and of itself, it’s shocking, but it’s otherworldly when we think about what Hillary Clinton has meant to liberals for most of the past sixteen years. Maybe Bill Richardson owes James Carville money, because that would help explain the bitter jihad the former Clinton strategist seems to be on, so relentlessly decrying the New Mexico Governor as “Judas” that Richardson stopped doing media appearances. It didn’t take much for Obama-backing General McPeak to declare Bill Clinton the equivalent of Joe McCarthy. And if you’ve read any Hillary vs. Obama thread on a liberal blog lately, you know that there have been friendlier back-and-forth exchanges in snakepits. There’s something vaguely reassuring about all this, from the view of sitting on the right. It reveals to conservatives that the nastiness exhibited in our earlier disagreements with these folks was never personal; these people are clearly nasty to anyone who disagrees with them. As someone famously said, the Left is more interested in burning heretics than in winning converts. Geraldine Ferraro’s long service to the Democratic party not to mention her historic status as the first woman VP nominee means nothing to many Obama backers; she’s a racist, “David Duke in drag,” as Rhodes put it. I’m sure Senator Patrick Leahy thought his decades of work on the left side of the aisle including his work on Clinton's impeachment defense had bought him some street cred from feminists, but no, he was called sexist when he called on Hillary to leave the race. Hillary gets called a "monster" by Obama's surrogates; Hillary's surrogates wonder out loud if Obama ever sold drugs. Today Clinton surrogate Ed Rendell speculates that Americans know only half the story of Barack Obama. Day in, day out, in this race it continues. Is there nastiness on the right? Sure. But it’s hard to imagine somebody being the equivalent hero to the right the way Hillary was a hero to the left, so suddenly and severely pitched overboard – no, that’s not it, denounced and demonized — when somebody else came along. . . . To get a full appreciation for just how nasty things are, look at MoveOn.org: it was originally formed to save Bill Clinton's bacon in Monicagate, and now it is one of the Clintons' worst enemies. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Barbara, you should see if you can get a bulk discount. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-04-04 18:55 |
| #2 The lefties being good adapter of Mother Europe are speedily heading to their Committees of Public Safety. Faster, faster. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-04 16:20 |
| #1 "Democrat Fratricide: 'These people are clearly nasty to anyone who disagrees with them'" That's not a bug, that's a feature. I'll double my popcorn order again. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-04 15:43 |