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weeklystandard.com - 11/19/2008

The Great Right Hope

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Hillary Clinton? by Noemie Emery 11/19/2008 12:00:00 AM

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An exceedingly strange new respect
Power Line — ... Emery now returns to the subject in "The great right hope." She elaborates on the "exceedingly strange new respect" with which conservatives came to view Clinton as a function of the tack she took in her struggle to overcome the leftward most viable candidate in the Democratic field (I.e., Obama): ...

Jacob Heilbrunn: Hillary Clinton, Neocon Savior?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Two new pieces in the Weekly Standard make it clear that the neocons see Hillary as their best hope over the next four years. In "Hail Clinton," Michael Goldfarb, until recently a McCain campaign aide, blogs that "Clinton's a hawk. Not only did she vote to authorize the war in Iraq, she delivered her vote in style -- her floor speech on October 10, 2002, went so far as to connect Saddam to al Qaeda..." There's more. Noemie Emery, in an online piece titled "The Great Right Hope?," muses that "For the moment, Hillary Clinton will be the ...

Conservatives Pleasantly Surprised by Obama’s Rumored Picks
Pajamas Media — ... declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to be a terrorist organization, while he opposed the measure. (He later reversed course in a speech before AIPAC after sewing up the nomination.) This endeared her to conservatives and infuriated the Democratic liberal base. And, indeed, Republicans ranging from former John McCain aide ...

An exceedingly strange new respect, part 2
Power Line — ... I noted Noemie Emery's column on Hillary Clinton. Emery traced the evolution of the respect at least some conservatives accorded Hillary Clinton as she found her footing opposing Barack Obama in the course of this year's Democratic primary campaign. ...

Loyal Opposition
The American Spectator — ... Yet when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on her nomination, Republicans could muster little more than a few questions about donors to Bill Clinton's well-endowed foundation. Every Republican on the committee except for one -- Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana -- voted to advance her nomination. Some conservatives outside of Congress reacted to Obama's choice of Hillary as if it were a positive sign about the direction of his administration. ...