6.24.2005

On Hillary: I Second That Sentiment

Continental Op at Red Harvest posts this which, I have to say, mirrors my feelings almost completely:

In an appropriately dismissive review of the Ed Klein biography of Hillary Clinton, Doug Ireland pretty much sums up my own feelings about both the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2008 and her right-wing detractors:
    Personally, I have little use for Hillary Clinton, and I'm appalled that the Democratic base has been taken in by her and thinks she's a "liberal." When the imprint she's left on public life is carefully examined, it is that of an unprincipled opportunist who will say or do anything to achieve and hang on to power. Klein makes the latter judgment, but at the same time he pretends to find in Hillary a closet left-liberal who will swing the White House wildly to the left if she's elected president. And he does so by ignoring much already on the public record, and with such exaggerated rhetoric, as to make this book quite useless to anyone who is not a right-wing Hillary hater.
Hillary isn't a liberal. She never was. In 1970s mentality, she would be a slightly to the right of center Republican. Do NOT believe for a minute she's Bill, who isn't all that liberal either.