Peggy Noonan has a column in the Wall Street Journal that gives the GOP vision of what Bill and Hillary are accomplishing and none of it is good for the Democrats (http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html). Like many, she sees the Clinton's splintering what might otherwise have been a unified party into a fractious mess that may well allow the GOP to somehow pull off victory in November. Here are some highlights:
Bill Clinton, with his trembly, red faced rage, makes John McCain look young. His divisive and destructive daily comportment—this is a former president of the United States—is a civic embarrassment. It is also an education, and there is something heartening in this.
There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=274075), the venerable left-liberal magazine. The Clintons are "high minded" on the surface but "smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four years." That, again, is from one of the premier liberal journals in the United States. It is exactly what conservatives have been saying for a decade. This may mark a certain coming together of the thoughtful on both sides. The Clintons, uniters at last.
But the Clintons are tearing the party apart. It will not be the same after this. It will not be the same after its most famous leader, and probable ultimate victor, treated a proud and accomplished black man who is a U.S. senator as if he were nothing, a mere impediment to their plans. And to do it in a way that signals, to his supporters, How dare you have the temerity, the ingratitude, after all we've done for you? Watch for the GOP to attempt to swoop in after the November elections and make profit of the wreckage.
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