The Dark Side Welcomes Hillary

"[Hillary's] become the Lieberman of the Democratic party." That was recently written in the conservative National Review, and it was meant as a good thing. Those paying attention in the last few months may have noticed that many hardcore Repubilcans have come to admire Hillary's campaign, admiring it as a reflection of their own values and disgraceful tactics:

She's running a right-wing campaign. She's running the classic Republican race against her opponent, running on toughness and use-of-force issues, the campaign that the elder George Bush ran against Michael Dukakis, that the younger George Bush waged in 2000 and then again against John Kerry, and that Ronald Reagan--'The Bear in the Forest'--ran against Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale.

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She might run to the right of McCain, if she makes it to the general election, and get the votes of rebellious conservatives. Or she, Lieberman, and McCain could form a pro-war coalition...

That was from the conservative Weekly Standard, saying the same things that I've been saying all along, although they come at it from a different angle--I'm trying to warn Democrats that Hillary is bringing the destructive policies and insidious tactics of the GOP to the Democratic Party, while the Republicans are salivating as they watch a leading Democrat turn more and more to the dark side.

Just pretend the Emperor is Dick Cheney, Darth Vader is Karl Rove, and Luke Skywalker is Hillary, only in reality Hillary is much more willing to turn to the dark side than Luke, indeed she embraces the dark side without any prodding at all:



Now I only hope when she comes up for reelection to the Senate in 2012 that we give her the Lieberman treatment, out on her ass with the rest of the Republican-Democrats.