Today's New York Times op-ed by William Kristol is titled, and I kid you not, "Hillary Gets No Respect."
But I do think I can speak for most of my fellow right-wingers when I say this: We once looked forward with unambivalent glee to the fall of the house of Clinton. Many of us still do. But we also see the liberal media failing to give Hillary Clinton the respect she deserves. So, since we conservatives believe in giving credit where credit is due, it falls to us to praise Hillary.
Are you f'ing kidding me?
The entire article reads like it came directly out of the Clinton campaign. It's interesting that their message and spin has been exposed and ignored by the progressive base, but is being actively embraced by the right-wing punditry.
But Hillary may well be the better candidate. After all, for all the talk of Obama’s extraordinary ability to draw voters to the polls, Clinton has defeated him in the big states, including California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Obama won his home state of Illinois, but she won Florida, where both were on the ballot but didn’t campaign.
The better candidate? Really? I'm not going to elaborate on the fact that Hillary, once the inevitable nominee with HUGE leads in all polls has now lost the nomination. But here's what I will say: the Clinton team has stumbled in every way that the right-wing has been dreaming about for 15 years. Every error, every exposed "misstatement," every shady deal, every lost supporter, everything that the far-right was hoping for has occurred. And now Bill Kristol feels sorry for her? What is wrong with him?
Hillary has achieved this despite much disparagement of her candidacy by liberal commentators...
Wait, what? Liberal commentators? Bill thinks the Clintons have been treated unfairly by Liberal commentators? Take some responsibility, Bill. Please.
Obama was tacitly acknowledging that much of the liberal media has been hoping he’d win. Now, they’re rooting for him to close the deal.
That’s fine. If I were on the left I might be rooting for that too. But this focus on Obama has resulted in a refusal to give Hillary her due. It’s startling how much of the commentary on the Pennsylvania results has had to do with Obama’s flaws and mistakes — rather than Hillary’s strengths and successes. Maybe in Pennsylvania, they were voting for Clinton, not simply against Obama.
After spending 15 years railing against every minor flaw of the Clintons, after claiming on several occasions that Hillary has neither strengths nor successes to speak of, and after countless appearances on talking head shows to specifically attack the Clinton dynasty, this article is the most ridiculous and disingenuous example of Kristol's useless career.
He ends with:
Over to you, anguished liberals.
So, give him a piece of your mind. Thank him for finally recognizing Hillary's qualities. Insult him for being a soulless pundit. Or simply let him know how incredibly wrong he is. He asked you to:
Send an Email to William Kristol
Better yet, Email the Times directly.