Bill Clinton Has Lied Before
January 26, 2008
But this particular revelation, that John McCain and Hillary love each other so much that if they were the respective nominees for their parties, it would be a two month love fest instead of an actual election is like the scenes of imploding falling buildings in Cloverfield. Its just way too realistically terrifying to be comfortable.
Campaigning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Friday, the former president brushed aside suggestions his wife would prove to be a divisive nominee for the Democratic Party, pointing out how she has successfully worked with Republicans in the Senate — including one of the current GOP presidential candidates.
“She and John McCain are very close,” Clinton said. “They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they’re afraid they’d put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other.”
Eeeeeeeeew.
Granted, its a tactic: yesterday’s NYT gushed all over McCain, prompting a wave of Mitt-related bash ads citing McCain’s record for being that guy that always wanted to be popular so he did all these things to make him palatable to the popular crowd, but who just ended up as the guy everyone hated. You know that guy. John Hughes made a lot of movies about him.
The schtick helps. The Clinton’s know they have Obama on the ropes, aren’t worried about Edwards, so they’re moving on to bigger fish, and their internal polling must say that McCain is the one candidate Hillary will have a difficult time beating. It may or may not be true, but the surest way to guarantee the possibility is off the table is to guarantee McCain doesn’t get the nod.
Or, Hillary and McCain really are BFFs. Which is gross. And creepy.
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January 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Beating a liberal with a liberal is not my idea of a sound Republican strategy.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Yes. Civilized. Just how the Clintons always run their campaigns. Its funny that now that Obama is in the cross-hair of the Clintons, the Kos kids are finally realizing how nasty the Clintons are.
Hillary + McCain as BFF is quite disturbing. And the Clintons know that. But we know that the Clintons know that and probably are lying anyways. So we’ll vote for McCain. But then, the Clintons might know that we know that the Clintons know that…
January 26th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I wouldn’t be all that surprised if H. Clinton and McCain were friendly, nor would I be surprised if McCain was friendly with Edwards and Obama. They all serve in the Senate - pretty much the most exclusive club in the Republic. They have to spend a lot of time together and their jobs require that they be civil - even if many in the base would prefer that our representatives engaged in daily steel cage death matches, Thunder Dome style. It’s like the Senatorial Privilege - if you’re president and you really want an appointment to go through without a fight, nominate a current or former Senator; Bush did this with Ashcroft, there’s been talk he’d do it with Hatch, there’s nothing new about this.
Nor should it be surprising. They work together, daily.
I’d like to say it’s surprising that a former president would attempt to get involved in the presidential primary of either party - especially the other party - and then I remember, it’s Bill freakin’ Clinton, the rules don’t apply to him.
As for McCain, he’s probably the best chance the GOP has to win - not that the GOP deserves to win at this point. Personally, I’d just as soon have the GOP lose, and lose badly, so that the conservative movement can have the internal debate that has been coming since I was in high school. Time for a realignment - if a guy with a 82% conservative rating over 26 years isn’t good enough (when a guy who had a rating of 86% over 8 years was seen as the next great hope), then there is something wrong.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
The NYT did not gush over McCain. They said he was the least despicable of the Republican nominees.
regards,
January 27th, 2008 at 1:26 am
McCain reminds me of Bob Dole. Clinton vs. McCain engaged in a “civil and friendly” race triggers flashbacks of 1996. I hope I am wrong. I pray I am wrong.