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KEN STARR has withstood withering White House attacks, a smear job by Brill’s Content, ridicule of his habit of singing hymns to himself, and even his awful impromptu press conferences alongside his garbage bin. The next threat to Starr, however, may be more lethal: the growing disaffection of his base among Washington conservatives.

The White House is always able to muster an array of hired guns to spin reporters and attack Starr on TV. Starr has no such luxury. “They are paid for it and they are true believers,” one Starr ally says of the President’s defenders. “Everyone else is a freelancer.” It has been left to a rag-tag crew of former Reagan officials and conservative analysts to mount Starr’s public defense.

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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KEN STARR has withstood withering White House attacks, a smear job by Brill’s Content, ridicule of his habit of singing hymns to himself, and even his awful impromptu press conferences alongside his garbage bin. The next threat to Starr, however, may be more lethal: the growing disaffection of his base among Washington conservatives.

The White House is always able to muster an array of hired guns to spin reporters and attack Starr on TV. Starr has no such luxury. “They are paid for it and they are true believers,” one Starr ally says of the President’s defenders. “Everyone else is a freelancer.” It has been left to a rag-tag crew of former Reagan officials and conservative analysts to mount Starr’s public defense.