Hating to Love Hillary

By Eric Pfeiffer | April 25, 2008 1:18 PM | | Comments (0)

Rooting for your opponents is never a clean task. Many conservative bloggers initially rooted for Barack Obama because they enjoyed seeing Hillary Clinton knocked down from her pedestal and because they enjoyed seeing the diminished stature of Bill Clinton. But now that Obama is the frontrunner for the nomination, many of those same conservatives have flipped back into Clinton's corner. Rush Limbaugh has been fairly consistent is his rooting for Clinton in that he simply wants the nomination battle to go on because it in theory hurts the Democrats' chances of winning the White House this fall. But what of the conservative bloggers who change their preference depending on which Democrat is up and which is down? If you're given two options of political poison, it's probably not wise to hope against hope that one poison will turn out to have an antidote.

McCain supporter John Hawkins notes his own uncomfortable shift on who should win the Democratic primary, but nonetheless gives his 10 reasons why the superdelegates should pick Clinton:

So, when the MSM essentially adopts the Obama campaign's position and argues that Hillary should get out now, even though she can still win, I feel the chivalrous urge, counter-productive though it may be, to defend her just a bit -- especially since Hillary Clinton does have a very strong case to make to the Democratic superdelegates who will decide the winner of the race.

The American Spectator's Philip Klein cautions against fellow conservatives rooting for Clinton:

There's been a lot of Clinton love among conservatives over the past several weeks, because she has been weakening Obama and attacking him from the right. But we should never lose sight of how adaptable Clinton is, and how she will literally say whatever suits her purposes at a given moment.

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