An editorial paragraph from the new (July 4, 2005) issue of National Review:

Intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda . . . people who have no shame about what they’re doing . . . people who have never been acquainted with the truth . . . it’s only our Constitution and country at stake.” Okay, okay. We didn’t like the Clintons, neither Mr. nor Mrs.; we said many harsh things about the Clintons when Mr. was president; we said some of these very things. But even conservatives — especially conservatives — must realize that time moves on. To fight Hillary Clinton in 2005 with the hot-blooded rhetoric of the late Nineties (however justified it was at the time) is to stay stuck in the past — Wait, wait: All those things were said by Hillary Clinton herself, of W. and the GOP, at a “Women for Hillary” fundraiser in New York a couple of weeks ago. Strange how the mind works. Psychoanalysts call it splitting, and projection. Our fee is $200, we take insurance, come back the same time next week.

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