The Political Spectrum

I alluded to something in my comment to GC's previous posts that may have gone over some heads. Kaus links to a ridiculous New York Times article written by Raymond Hernandez claiming that conservatives are involved in a campaign to promote an absurd book which, in part, alleges that Bill Clinton raped Hillary Clinton. Yes, there is a vast right-wing campaign to promote this nut-job's book involving all of, oh, about ZERO mainstream conservatives. Evidently some website which was funded by the some guy who received money from another person who once had a dinner date with some woman who sat on a bus next to another guy who know the guy who mows the lawn of Dick Cheney's father's brother's cousin's former roommate is on this non-stop right-wing bandwagon.

Of course someone might want to inform the people at every single other right-wing blog that has even bothered to comment on the book that we're supposed to be promoting it, because the pretty-universal response has been to completely condemn it. I believe my good friend TSL at GeekSoapBox captures the general consensus. While those of us on the right have little regard for Bill and Hillary, a line must be drawn somewhere.

But to throw this sort of scandalous and libelous rumor and innuendo out there nearly thirty years after the fact just reeks of muckraking sensationalism at worst and a lousy attempt to boost traffic at best. I despise when the left refer to President Bush as a war criminal or compare him to Hitler and think those comments are outrageous and betray a fundamental lack of understanding of even the basics of history or politics. Likewise, the so-called "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" needs to get over Bubba and Hill. The guy's been out of the picture for over a full term of office, and there is nothing we can do now to exact revenge over two straight close electoral defeats. Bill Clinton is a vision of mediocrity in the rear-view mirror of history, and his wife is so shameless and brazen in her comments and publicity-seeking that she will eventually wind up an even worse national candidate than the modern-day Francophile John Kerry. Leave them alone and give them no further thought; in actuality, that would be the worst punishment you could possibly hit them with.

Well said.

Bill Clinton was an, at best, mediocre President and will probably be a historically insignificant one at that. We need not draw any other attention to the has-been, and any wacko allegation that he raped Hillary should be mocked for its inherent stupidity. Luckily conservatives have done just that. Of course Mr. Hernandez is free to quote George H. W. Bush's gardener's son's teacher to prove otherwise.