CAREER POLITICIANS SAY WHATEVER THEY HAVE TO SAY TO GET ELECTED. I was running a newspaper in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor. I once spent an hour with him in an exclusive interview. A couple years later I was an editor at a daily newspaper in Washington State when Clinton was one of about eight Democrats vying for the presidential nominee. My colleagues had never heard of him before, but I assured them that he would be their next president. He was the ultimate professional politician. He was a conservative as Arkansas governor, ran for president as a moderate, turned liberal for about one year and tried to support Hillary in pursuit of nationalized health care, then turned moderate again after the electorate essentially smacked him in the mouth for his initial liberal policies. He turned around and worked with the first Republican-controlled Congress in decades to achieve the first meaningful reform of welfare since LBJs Great Society was initiated. His chameleon capabilities allowed him to survive impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And his presidency is now looked back on fondly by many after the subsequent Bush and Obama administrations. His example has been taken to heart by many career politicians since then. This Washington Times story documents some new examples of chameleon campaigning. washingtontimes/news/2014/aug/11/pruden-swimming-in-a-sea-turning-red/
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:49:10 +0000
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