I never thought I’d see the day. Somehow, I found myself perusing a number of conservative articles and something really weird started happening: I agreed. NewsMax had one that I’ll get to later about John McCain, but the article on the Democratic primary results by one Peggy Noonan absolutely broke my brain.
The article is unflaggingly anti-Clinton, but the fact that it does so without pulling down Obama as well and that McCain gets basically the same treatment as Barack.
Mrs. Clinton would have been a disaster as president. Mr. Obama may prove a disaster, and John McCain may, but she would be. Mr. Obama may lie, and Mr. McCain may lie, but she would lie. And she would have brought the whole rattling caravan of Clintonism with her—the scandal-making that is compulsive, the drama that is unending, the sheer, daily madness that is her, and him
As I read through the article, I had to double-take and look at the author. This is a woman who has said that liberals are in love with death, amongst other hilariously mean-spirited and just-plain-wrong assertions. To get something that was not only mostly reasonable, but something I agreed with made me feel dirty. I’ve had two showers since reading it.
The Dem’s keep on arguing about whether or not Obama should take Hill as her running mate. I’ve said an emphatic “hell no” since the idea first happened, but Noonan compiles probably the best list of reasons, including this dynamite one:
Choosing Mrs. Clinton would make Mr. Obama look weak. No one would believe he picked her because he respected or liked her. They’d think he was appeasing her. This is not something he can afford! And in any case some people cannot be appeased. Voters would assume she and her people did their voodoo—I have 18 million voters!—and he fell for it. She doesn’t have 18 million voters, she got 18 million votes. It is telling the way she thinks of them, as if they are working-class automatons awaiting her command.
And that’s huge, there. Obama and Clinton had a bitter campaign, for one to take the other smacks not of agreement on policy but a hope that they can just “absorb” the voters from the other. It says “hey, sure, so I’ve spent six months saying you’re a terrible candidate that will run the party into the ground, but you DO have a lot of people who voted for you, so maybe if they’ll vote for you they’ll vote for us, eh? Ehhhh?”
So, fine. Well done Peggy. Hopefully this is a start of a trend.
