On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:30 PM, andie nachgeborenen quoted Der Krauthammer:
> The Post editorial noted "a perverse kind of good
> news" in Clinton's free-trade revisionism: "There's
> little chance that her position reflects any deeply
> held principle." And there lies the beauty not just of
> Clinton on free trade but of the Clinton candidacy
> itself: She has no principles. Her liberalism is
> redeemed by her ambition; her ideology subordinate to
> her political needs.
>
> I could never vote for her, but I (and others of my
> ideological ilk) could live with her -- precisely
> because she is so liberated from principle. Her
> liberalism, like her husband's -- flexible,
> disciplined, calculated, triangulated -- always leaves
> open the possibility that she would do the right thing
> for the blessedly wrong (i.e. self-interested,
> ambition-serving, politically expedient) reason.
That's where these guys get it wrong. Why can't they believe that they're principled imperial hawks and neoliberals?
Doug