LA Times: Is the right right on the Clintons?

[MrsT]

I think the answer to this question is "no," but I am posting this article because I come from a family full of liberals that are starting to turn against the Clintons. In the next few days I'll post my personal experiences that relate to this article, and why it concerns me a great deal.

Is the right right on the Clintons?
Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.
January 26, 2008

Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons.

The sentiment seems to be concentrated among Barack Obama supporters. Going into the campaign, most of us liked Hillary Clinton just fine, but the fact that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing for her suggested that she might not be a good Democratic nominee. But now that loathing seems a lot less irrational. We're not frothing Clinton haters like ... well, name pretty much any conservative. We just really wish they'd go away.

The big turning point seems to be this week, when the Clintons slammed Obama for acknowledging that Ronald Reagan changed the country. Everyone knows Reagan changed the country. Bill and Hillary have said he changed the country. But they falsely claimed that Obama praised Reagan's ideas, saying he was a better president than Clinton -- something he didn't say and surely does not believe.

This might have been the most egregious case, but it wasn't the first. Before the New Hampshire primaries, Clinton supporters e-mailed pro-choice voters claiming that Obama was suspect on abortion rights because he had voted "present" instead of "no" on some votes. (In fact, the president of the Illinois chapter of Planned Parenthood said she had coordinated strategy with Obama and wanted him to vote "present.") Recently, there have been waves of robocalls in South Carolina repeatedly attacking "Barack Hussein Obama."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-chait26jan26,0,7890763.column

[wyldwolf]

1. only when it's convenient to the left

[Nite Owl]

2. How come we never see any headlines

like, " Is the left right on the Bushes?" (or their god Reagan!)

[MrsT]

3. If the Bushes took an extremely active role in the Republican primaries

I think you would. If Jeb seeks the nomination at some point, I think this would be pretty likely.