Granted,\u00c2\u00a0we have a sort of permanent silly season in politics, and the presidential race is… absurd in its longevity of focus.\u00c2\u00a0 (I suppose that wouldn’t be too ridiculous if it weren’t personality – driven, and narrowed to\u00c2\u00a02 or 3 candidates to each party, but it is.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Somewhere past asking Giuliani for the cost of milk\u00c2\u00a0or asking Romney for his favorite book,\u00c2\u00a0something… popped out at me.\u00c2\u00a0 A certain cynicism\u00c2\u00a0from members of the chattering class in a transcript of the MSNBC program Tucker, exclamation\u00c2\u00a0point.<\/p>\n
Tucker asks his interchangable pundit… who would kill more people at whim, Giuliani or Clinton.<\/p>\n
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CARLSON: I wonder why it is then that Hillary Clinton, once you take a look at the records and what they say, clearly the most conservative, why is it that she is the most disliked, more dislike, I would say, by Republicans than anybody, including Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel?<\/p>\n
BARTLETT: I think she is the most disliked by Democrats.<\/p>\n
CARLSON: That`s true actually. Why is that?<\/p>\n
BARTLETT: Something about her personality. It grates on people. I don`t think — She doesn`t have her husband`s winning personality. Let`s face it, she has to work at it a lot harder, but, you know, we have elected presidents who have had a lot of worse personalities than her; Richard Nixon, for example. I think if she can position herself as the\u00c2\u00a0 candidate of competence, she will have a very good chance. I think Republicans and conversation are wrong to underestimate her.<\/p>\n
CARLSON: Would you personally vote for her?<\/p>\n
BARTLETT: I would vote for her against some people. I don`t know.<\/p>\n
CARLSON: Like who?<\/p>\n
BARTLETT: Well, I`m just not very happy about any of the Republicans running. I think Giuliani seems like — has an authoritarian personality.<\/p>\n
CARLSON: Wait, wait, and Hillary Clinton doesn`t? You`re saying that he has a more authoritarian personality than Hillary Clinton. If both of them had absolute power, let`s just say, a mind experiment, if they had absolute power, who would kill more?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n BARTLETT: That`s a tough question. I think Giuliani would kill more.<\/p>\n I think he`s a tougher guy. And I don`t mean that in a positive way, really. I mean probably the guy who looks the best to me right now is the guy who`s, you know, in the wings, Fred Thompson, but that`s only because I don`t really know exactly where he stands on the issues. He`s just a potentially better candidate than the guys they have running. Pausing for a minute, all I can do is pause.<\/p>\n Fantastic election coming up!\u00c2\u00a0 Hillary Clinton versus Rudy Giuliani — Skull and Bones Decision 2008: Elect your mass-killer.<\/p>\n I’m only passing on words from mainstream conservative media honchos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Granted,\u00c2\u00a0we have a sort of permanent silly season in politics, and the presidential race is… absurd in its longevity of focus.\u00c2\u00a0 (I suppose that wouldn’t be too ridiculous if it weren’t personality – driven, and narrowed to\u00c2\u00a02 or 3 candidates to each party, but it is.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Somewhere past asking Giuliani for the cost of milk\u00c2\u00a0or asking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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