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Jan 15, 2009, 11:44AM

That which begat Hillary

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy indeed....

Hmmm:

She’s a monster of the conservative movement’s creation. Throughout the ’90s, the movement’s mouthpieces put about the idea that Hillary was the power behind the throne — she was, after all, less popular and further to the Left than her husband. This backfired spectacularly: after all, if Hillary could be co-president, doesn’t that make her eminently qualified for the senate, to be president again, or to be the nation’s top diplomat?

And having done at least as much as her feminist fans on the Left to build up the myth of omnicompetent Hillary, what is the Right doing now? Lying down for her: “even firebrand South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint,” Time’s Massimo Calabresi writes, “said he was ‘optimistic and hopeful about [Sen. Clinton's] role as secretary of State.’” If there is a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, it’s evidently the best friend Hillary Clinton could hope to have.

Discussion
  • More evidence, as if it were needed, that the GOP is in vast disarray, with warring factions, and is busy with recriminations instead of low-level organizing like they did after Clinton won in '92. The trouble for the GOP, however, is that Obama's a much tougher customer--doesn't have the same narcissism or lack of political convictions as Clinton--and will be very hard to maneuver around. It'll take a Republican with the skill of Rahm Emanuel to pull it off. I'd say the odds aren't good, at least in the next four years.

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