Let’s Elect Hillary Now

WSJ ^ | December 21, 2015 | Bret Stephens

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We want a president we can loathe all of the time—not support some of the time.

Dear fellow conservatives:

Let us now pledge to elect Hillary Clinton as the 45th president of the United States.

Let’s skip the petty dramas of primaries and caucuses, the debate histrionics, the sour spectacle of the convention in Cleveland. Let’s fast-forward past that sinking October feeling when we belatedly realize we’re going to lose—and lose badly.

Let’s move straight to that first Tuesday in November, when we grimly pull the lever for the candidate who has passed all the Conservative Purity Tests , meaning we’ve upheld the honor of our politically hopeless cause. Let’s stop pretending we want to be governed by someone we agree with much of the time, when we can have the easy and total satisfaction of a president we can loathe and revile all the time.

Let’s do this because it’s what we want. Maybe secretly, maybe unconsciously, but desperately. We want four—and probably eight—more years of cable-news neuralgia. We want to drive ourselves to work as Mark Levin or Laura Ingraham scratch our ideological itches until they bleed a little. We want the refiner’s fire that is our righteous indignation at a country we claim no longer to recognize—ruled by impostors and overrun by foreigners.

We also want to turn the Republican Party into a gated community. So much nicer that way. If the lesson of Mitt Romney’s predictable loss in 2012 was that it’s bad politics to tell America’s fastest-growing ethnic group that some of their relatives should self-deport, or to castigate 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers—well, so what? Abraham Lincoln once said “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.” What. Ever.

[Vigilanteman]

For those who have studied more than the Hitler caricature, we understand that he was a sharp dresser and a ladies man with impeccably polite manners and charm.

He was an ardent nonsmoker, vegetarian and health enthusiast. He loved animals even to the extent that he arranged for the care and adoption of people's pets who were shipped off to detention camps, as they called them in the early days of the war and prewar years.

Western journalists, for the most part, gushed over these qualities and sold them to a worldwide audience. It wasn't until Crustal Night, just a few weeks after the Munich Agreement was inked, that a few of them begin to rethink their positions.

[Federal46]

I agree,I have been saying for years that the progressives are the real flat earthers.

[Boogieman]

“If the lesson of Mitt Romney’s predictable loss in 2012 was that it’s bad politics to tell America’s fastest-growing ethnic group that some of their relatives should self-deport, or to castigate 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers’ well, so what?”

That’s not the lesson of Mitt Romney’s loss...

[Bon mots]

We need a pathological liar in the White House again.

[MarMema]

I lost most of a night of sleep after discovering that all the bookies have Hillary as the predicted winner right now.

[WashingtonSource]

Bret is a complete sell-out to the open borders cheap labor express.

[simpson96]

[MarMema]

Let me know. I am in.

[bert]

That's old fashioned.....

Here's the modern problem solution

It's on TV all the time

[Shery]

Just shut up! Obviously you are NOT a conservative, so you don’t understand the conservative fervor this time around.

[EveningStar]

Related thread:

Mark Levin shreds Wall Street Journal: 'Delusional. Unprincipled. Cronies.'

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Thanks!