Sherry Chandler

A change of heart?

Back in the days of the Clinton presidency, Richard Mellon Scaife was one of his fiercest enemies. It may have been he and the money he put into discrediting Clinton that provoked Hillary to make her comment about the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” But according to the NYTimes:

Christopher Ruddy, who once worked full-time for Mr. Scaife investigating the Clintons and now runs a conservative online publication he co-owns with Mr. Scaife, said, “Both of us have had a rethinking.”

“Clinton wasn’t such a bad president,” Mr. Ruddy said. “In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”

I have to agree with Kevin Drum on this one:

…you have to be a pretty bad president to make Richard Mellon Scaife start pining away for the good old days of Bill Clinton. If there was any lingering doubt about whether George Bush is the worst president ever, or perhaps only the second or third worst, we should probably take this as a cosmic confirmation that the votes are in.

As to Hillary’s run for the presidency, the article allows as how these old attack dogs aren’t hunting.

As for the conservative response to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Ruddy said, “The level of intensity and anger toward Hillary is not getting to the level that it was toward Bill Clinton when he was president.” He added, “She has moderated and developed a separate image.”

As a voter, I’m not sure whether I find that reassuring.

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