Brookhiser on NRO’s Corner:
Did anyone else think that W’s praise of Bill Clinton, which was all over my AOL startup menu yesterday, was sly sabotage of Hillary (grossing out the Kossacks)?
If you doubted the depths to which Three Monkeys would sink, doubt no more. First, note the telling confession… AO-freaking-L? NRO has crawled so far up the elephant’s posterior that I have no doubt that Goldberg will soon be cracking wise about the pachydermic stomach acid and Lowry will explain how funding Hamas is a clever Bush administration plan to bankrupt it.
As for the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton crack, indications are that Hillary has already been Anointed. If so, George Delano would surely know and is not tweaking the Kossacks, but the clueless electorate. I still don’t see how Hillary can possibly be considered electable, but it is early yet and it is not hard to envision various scenarios that would render her so.
1. Hillary becomes the Border Warrior. This would be the easiest move, especially if the Republicans continue to alienate their base.
2. Republicans nominate a pro-choice candidate. A major Republican runs as a pro-life third-party candidate and splits the Republican vote ala 1992.
3. War in Iran goes poorly, Hillary becomes the Mideast Peace Candidate.
4. No war in Iran, inflation in 2007, Hillary becomes the New New Dealist.