Posted on 05/05/2008 9:45:30 AM PDT by The_Republican
A few days ago I was talking to a prominent conservative commentator who told me how much he'd come to admire the campaign Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., had waged against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
No fan of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the commentator said to me that if Clinton promised to not raise income taxes and she gave the conservatives the next Supreme Court pick, he'd vote for her.
That won't happen, of course -- but it's a remarkable phenomenon, and now it's showing up in conservative publications.
Rich Lowry, writing in the National Review:
"Was just talking to a shrewd friend. His take on the turn of events in the campaign and how it has affected Hillary Clinton (quoting roughly): 'Hillary has shown a Nixonian resilience and she's morphing into Scoop Jackson. She's entering the culture war as a general. All of this has made her a far more formidable general election candidate. She's fighting the left and she's capturing the center. She's denounced MoveOn.org. She's become the Lieberman of the Democratic party. The left hates her and treats her like Lieberman. Today, Obama is distancing himself from Wright and Hillary is getting in touch with O'Reilly. The culture war has come to the Democratic party.'"
Noemie Emery in the Weekly Standard:
"She's running a right-wing campaign. She's running the classic Republican race against her opponent, running on toughness and use-of-force issues, the campaign that the elder George Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, that the younger George Bush waged in 2000 and then again against John Kerry, and that Ronald Reagan--'The Bear in the Forest'--ran against Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale. And she's doing it with much the same symbols. ...she is becoming a social conservative, a feminist form of George Bush. Against an opponent who shops for arugula, hangs out with ex-Weathermen, and says rural residents cling to guns and to God in unenlightened despair at their circumstances, she has rushed to the defense of religion and firearms, while knocking back shots of Crown Royal and beer. Her harsh, football-playing Republican father (the villain of the piece, against whom she rebelled in earlier takes on her story) has become a role model, a working class hero, whose name she evokes with great reverence. Any day now, she'll start talking Texan, and cutting the brush out in Chappaqua or at her posh mansion on Embassy Row….
"She might run to the right of McCain, if she makes it to the general election, and get the votes of rebellious conservatives. Or she, Lieberman, and McCain could form a pro-war coalition, with all of them running to pick up the phone when it rings in the small hours. The New York Times and the rest of the left would go crazy. Respect can't get stranger than that."
It's interesting.
Discussion point: Obama is getting the support of some prominent conservatives -- Doug Kmiec comes to mind -- because of their view that he could maybe unite the country.
Clinton, on the other hand, is starting to get Atta-Girls from other conservatives because they sense compared to Obama she's more or less on their side in the "divided" America. (Though after a nasty Fall campaign they would no doubt consider her the second coming of Bella Abzug and race to pull the lever for McCain.)
I do not buy this. Who is this ‘un-named’ Republican?
Nevertheless, I'd say that most conservatives (myself included) see Hellary as far better than BHO for foreign policy reasons alone. Mix in ambivalence to McCain and....
-Eric
Oh come on! She’ll do or say anything to get elected - but after she’s elected WATCH OUT because the storm troopers will be coming.
Why anyone believes anything this person says is beyond me. Who cares about how she’s running - it’s only meaning is to manipulate.
I agree with you. She also stated a few years ago that she wouldn’t run for president.
Kinda like saying, "If pigs had wings," don'tcha think?
“Hillary Clinton (quoting roughly): ‘Hillary has shown a Nixonian resilience..”
No matter what, I think Hill’s got grit and she don’t quit. Gotta admire that.
Obambi is wilting under pressure.
She can’t lose what she has already lost. What do Klintons have left to lose besides their perverted divisive legacy?
Its easier to be gutsy when you don’t care what bridges you burn, when your only other option is to go home and bake cookies.
Obama on the other hand realizes that he would be the nominee, and he needs to bring the femmanazi and bitter block back into the fold. He can’t open fire the same way Klinton can.
Hilary is tilting the right to beat Obama. Anyone blind to this is a fool. Hillary is a useless socialist. She will say any damn thing that “resonates” with dumb Democrats. What she does in office will be awful and traitorous same as Bill did
Perhaps this writer is speaking about Pat Buchanan, but I’m not sure. Buchanan must be reading FR because I and a few others here have made a point in many threads on Hillary that she’s running to the right of McCain, but just enough to compete with him on foreign policy issues and ahead of him on illegal immigration. She’s still for ending the war in Iraq but she’s for staying in Afghanistan which is kind of hypocritical since we’re fighting the same types of jihadist foes in each country. But she really is type-casting herself as a “Scoop” Jackson, I totally agree and it’s working. She’s shed her feminist mantle.
In her saucy interview #2 with The Leprechaun on FOX, she steadfastly argues against doing ANYTHING to sanctuary cities—her friends like Socialist Mayor Newsome of SF et al. But I think, were she to be President, that she would allow her DHS Secretary to go after those cities who flaunt breaking Federal Immigration Law. That simply cannot continue. The public is speaking loudly, and she’s hearing it. Until Special Order 40 is removed by these city leaders or until the new President sends in troops or the FBI to arrest the mayors and corrupt po-lice chiefs of these sanctuary cities for defyinig Federal law, there is going to be hell to pay. Citizens simply are not going to continue to sit back and let thue gangs and other assorted illegals take over their communities.
If Hillary is sharp, and I believe she is, she’ll come out tough on the Invaders and rein in illegal immigration.
McCain is not my first choice either, but he would be infinitely better as President than either Obama or Hillary. Obama is inexperienced at doing much of anything, naive at best on foreign policy and is as far left a candidate as we had since George McGovern. Hillary is a manipulative micro-manager with a decidedly socialist agenda. While perhaps better at answering that 3 am phone call than Obama, she has no foreign policy experience and would use people like Madeline Albright as advisers. God save our Republic if either she or Obama gain the White House.
Hillary has a burning desire to be president, it’s why she stayed whith that no good cheat of a husband and she won’t be denied, no way, Jose. It’s not about her having grit, this is a woman who is divisive and has no shame and if she goes down, she doesn’t care who she takes down with her. This was her election to lose and she’s done a good job of losing. Spent all that money early on to the extent she had to lend her campaign money, when the voting was just starting, how smart is that?
I cannot believe the things I admit to on here.
I had a dream about !HER! the night before last.
I liked her. A Lot. I mean I_Wanted_ her.
Maybe it was the Chantix..Bizarre dreams are a known side effect. Or it damaged my brain irreparably and I will be calling Sokoloff, then voting Dem.
Or maybe I just need to get out more. As long as it does not happen again, we can all have a good laugh, but if I suddenly disappear...it could mean the worst...
Help me. Put up the Helen Thomas Picture! That will do it.
“Maybe it was the Chantix..Bizarre dreams are a known side effect..”
If I were you, I’d begin smoking again immediately.
I'm with you. I am surprised that we have not yet seen Bill out on the stump today comparing her to Eight Bells.
Bill will put her out of her misery if she loses.
Am I the only one who has never heard of this "prominent conservative"?
Hahaha, what are you saying, "Might as well DIE and get it over with!"??
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