Hillary Wins Charles Krauthammer Primary
October 12, 2007 -- 9:53 AM EST // //
This is a fun one. Conservative Washington Post writer Charles Krauthammer uses his column today to give Hillary his much-coveted Dem primary endorsement, suggesting that she'd be the best of all the Dem candidates.
Intriguingly, Krauthammer suggests this in a column that also throws an astonishing range of epithets at her. He accuses her of "opportunism," "slipperiness," "cynicism," of having "no principles," etc., etc. To Krauthammer, these are virtues because they mean she'd be less likely to adhere to the liberal principles that would imprison her fellow Dems. Far better, Krauthammer says, to have a President with no principles at all than a President with liberal ones.
He also writes with perfect sincerity that she's to be admired because of her obvious (he claims) willingness to torture, concluding: "I (and others of my ideological ilk) could live with her."
Whether it's real or imagined, the hawks are clearly hearing a dog whistle in Hillary's rhetoric. Something tells me that Camp Hillary won't be touting this column on her campaign web site.
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