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They’re Starting to Catch On… And They’re Trying to Cover Their Backsides.

One of the most amusing things about this election season is the creeping realization of the left that what we’ve been saying on the right about Bill And Hillary Clinton all these years was correct.  You can see the re-assessment process in their eyes when the subject comes up. You can almost hear the wheels turning in online conversations.  None of them, however has been more amusing than the specter of Jonathan Chait, in the LA Times [1], hardly a bastion of right wing thought, taking note of it all, and trying to blame it all on the black guy:

The sentiment seems to be concentrated among Barack Obama supporters. Going into the campaign, most of us liked Hillary Clinton just fine, but the fact that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing for her suggested that she might not be a good Democratic nominee. But now that loathing seems a lot less irrational. We’re not frothing Clinton haters like … well, name pretty much any conservative. We just really wish they’d go away.

It sounds like the Democrats in general and Chait in particular, are willing to admit what we’ve been saying about the Clintons all along, but given what they’d be accepting they were complicit in, they’re unwilling to go the whole route. Surber [2] does a decent job of listing the lies Chait and his type were spreading throughout the 90’s:

Chiat – who is our moral and intellectual superior simply by calling himself a liberal – is coming to grips with something everyone on the right knew 10 years ago.

And yet brave people like Matt Drudge, like Lucianne Goldberg and like Linda Tripp still were brave enough to speak the truth to power.

They did not make up the sex scandal.

They did not make up the perjury.

They did not make up the coverup.

Ah yes, the coverup. Whatever happened to that Watergate era mantra from the left that the coverup is worse than the crime?

It was replaced by the preposterous mantra sex is private.

Tell that to Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich …

Really. You can see the truth dawning on Chait as his brain recovers, albeit slightly, from Clinton fever:

Am I starting to sound like a Clinton hater? It’s a scary thought. Of course, to conservatives, it’s a delicious thought. The Wall Street Journal published a gloating editorial noting that liberals had suddenly learned “what everyone else already knows about the Clintons.” (By “everyone,” it means Republicans.)

Not at all; I submit they were including what few people were under the category of “responsible Democrats”, anymore.  (Hint, that doesn’t include you.) You may recall there was a small minority of them all through the 90’s who decried the animals the Clintons were. You ignored them, and instead championed the Clintons, made excuses for their misdeeds, and generally told the world to pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain over there… and the outright criminality, the lies, and other misdeeds.

Old habits die hard, though, as Chait aptly demonstrates:

So maybe the answer is that the Clintons would have smeared their opponents in the 1990s, but lying is unnecessary when the other party is doing things such as voting to slash Medicare to pay for a big tax cut for the rich.

(Oh, pleeeaaaasssssseeee)

It’s knee-jerk, anymore, isn’t it? The Democrat loyalists simply cannot stop themselves from chanting the mantra, even when it’s been proven false, and it’s loudest proponants are proven liers… a status which even Chait is now willing to consider. They recognize the Clintons and their behavior is a problem, but they can’t stop the behavior (Lying, in this case) even in themselves. Then again, not lying, or getting caught at lying, would be grounds for dismissal from Chait’s main gig, Sr. Editor at The New Republic, right?

You dug your own grave on this, Chait. You and the rest of the Democrats. The signs were all there.  And we told you all about them for over a decade. It was all a vast right wing conspiracy, though, remember?

More, Memeorandum

Addendum: (Bit)

The way this plays will be interesting if Clinton, in spite of it all, manages to get through the nomination process.