WaPo's neocon Charles Krauthammer praises Hillary today: "Clinton's Attractive Lack of Principles"

[flpoljunkie]

(Of course, he says he "could never vote for her.")

Clinton's attractive lack of principles

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, Washington Post Writers Group
Published October 12, 2007

<>On Iraq, for example, she talks like someone who knows she may soon be commander in chief and will need room to maneuver in order to achieve whatever success might be possible. Clinton has emphatically refused to give assurances that she would get us out of Iraq during her first term. Unlike, for example, Bill Richardson, who advocates a rout so radical that we'd leave equipment behind, she has committed herself to little more than a drawdown of forces as conditions allow.

On Iran, Clinton has been pilloried from the left for supporting a completely anodyne resolution designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. This would trigger serious economic sanctions that would greatly complicate its ability to operate.

<>And look what Clinton unveiled this week: a modestly government-subsidized, personal retirement account. True, it is yet another big-government middle-class entitlement. Yes, she ignores the looming Social Security crisis. On the other hand, establishing a universal, portable, personal retirement account (though without the government subsidy) is something conservatives have long and devoutly sought. It establishes a parallel to the Social Security system - the perfect vehicle for a future conservative administration to use for shifting from the current unsustainable government-controlled program to a privatized system such as the one in Chile.

Even Clinton's response to a debate question on torture - "As a matter of policy it cannot be American policy, period" - is elegantly phrased to imply an implacable opposition to torture, and yet leave open the possibility that in extreme circumstances a president would do what she had to do, i.e. authorize torture, regardless of the express policy.

Clinton rarely falters. Always careful, always calibrated, always leaving room for expediency over ideology. That's Clintonism, of both marital flavors. Gender sensitivity prevents me from calling her the consummate needle-threader. Consider her instead Columbus' match as the Great Navigator.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/12/Opinion/Clinton_s_attractive_.shtml

[DS1]

1. oh no! we might leave equipment behind!

:rofl:

Where do they find these people?

[madrchsod]

3. under a rock...

when charley says "good things" about her you know the republican rightwing knows it does`t have a chance in the next election

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Another Day....Another Hit Piece On Hillary Clinton...

DSB

[flpoljunkie]

4. It's not a hit piece. Neocon Krauthammer is basically endorsing her candidacy.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Now I know that, "Next stop ... THE TWILIGHT ZONE!"

"Neocon Krauthammer is basically endorsing her candidacy." :crazy: :scared: :crazy:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Nah...Your Intentions Were Noble...

:sarcasm:

[Forkboy]

7. Hillary suppoorters didn't mind Krauthammer when he was harping on Obama.

Hillary quoted the shithead on HillaryHub even.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3409277

Maybe they should be more careful who they promote if they don't want it biting them in the ass.

[jmp]

8. "Clinton's Attractive Lack of Principles"

It's really not that attractive. :puke:

[Elidor]

9. Greg Sargent has more

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.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/10/hillary_wins_ch.php

[Major Hogwash]

10. Krauthammer looks like death warmed over. He's probably for Fred Thompson.

Who looks like he died 3 years ago, but no one told him.