That Lying David Limbaugh

I just had to see the title of David Limbaugh's latest, "The Never-Ending Clinton Factor," to know that I'd be writing on it. Because for all their phony baloney hand wringing, the Conservatives love having the Clintons around. Now that the election is over and they don't have John Kerry to kick around any more, they are going to need the Clintons in order to deflect attention away from President Bush's failures.

The article is pretty much what you'd expect. The Democratic party is trying to figure out what they want. David Limbaugh encourages them to consider Hillary while gently trashing her.

Whether or not the Democrats are in steady decline, the fact remains that Clinton represents their only recent presidential success. So they need to determine whether his victories are attributable to his ostensibly centrist policies or his cult of personality, or both.

If Clinton's victories were a result of the Clinton mystique, this could arguably work in Hillary's favor.

By the way, Democrats are not in steady decline, just so you know. But I guess I applaud your positive thinking.

Anyway you get the point. Limbaugh can't praise the Clintons or they will throw him out of the He-Man Liberal-Haters Club. But he certainly wants Hillary to be a viable candidate in 2008. So he does this round the belt thing.

But just so nobody gets the wrong idea, he then offers a completely fallacious but conservative pleasing account of President Clinton's presidency. Basically he lies and says that Clinton was a far leftist, then he lies and says that all the more moderate or conservative moves on Clinton's were due to Newt Gingrich forcing Clinton to do them. In case you are wondering these are deceptive statements, and I have no doubt that David Limbaugh knows the actual facts of the matter, so I feel no hesitation in calling them lies.