Hillary! Caught Between Iraq And A Hard Base

Dick Morris on Hillary!'s growing Iraq problem:

Worried that the left-wing Democratic Peace Train may be leaving the station without her, Hillary Clinton is scrambling for a seat by moving away from her carefully crafted hawkish support of the Iraq war. But she can’t join the left body and soul because she still needs to show how tough she is on national security issues, so she is trying to craft her own “third way� on Iraq.

All she has succeeded in doing, however, is fudging her position, muddying it up, but convincing nobody on the right or on the left.

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As happened in the 1960s, a new left is emerging around opposition to a war, leaving behind old-style liberals who support the invasion and grinding them underfoot. Hillary could be marginalized in 2008 just as Hubert Humphrey was in 1968 and she is determined to prevent it.

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[Her muddled, have-it-both-ways] position is a political pretzel worthy of her husband’s squirming over tough issues.

But it won’t fool anyone. The right knows that she is, at best, an unreliable ally and, at worst, an insincere one. The left will not accept anything less than full-out opposition to the war. And our troops in the field — and their families back home — likely will not find much comfort in learning that Sen. Clinton wants them to risk their lives for a mistake.

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So what is Hillary to do?

Nail an intern? That seems to work for the Clintons.

posted by Ace at 03:42 PM

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