Yellow dogs and Miss Nightingale

Washington Times - Pruden on Politics ^ | June 17, 2003 | Wesley Pruden

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

Ma Clinton is gone but not exactly forgotten in Little Rock, where some people remember her more generously than others. On the other hand, Ma and Pa Clinton are not altogether gone, either.

The diehard Democrats, embittered old yellow dogs who instinctively regard all Republicans as direct descendants of John Brown, Ben Butler and General Sherman, if not old Abe his own self, are a diminishing cult in Arkansas, and many of them imagine Ma Clinton to be the Florence Nightingale sent to bind their wounds, which are considerable.