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June 07, 2006
Chronic clucking of clueless cryptocratic copycats?
University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos (who yesterday called Glenn Reynolds a "Bush dead-ender" and "jingoistic right-wing ideologue"), has an interesting idea about how to resurrect Bill Clinton which he shared recently. After complaining about the 22nd Amendment (which he claims "most people now agree... was a mistake") he offers an intriguing way to get around it: . . .[A]nyone who could devise some legal way to return Clinton to the presidency would be performing a service of such magnitude that he would deserve to have his statue adorn every public square of this great nation.Cute. But it's about as original as the Glenn Reynolds = right wing ideologue (even radical right wing agenda) meme. The idea of running a candidate's wife in order to reinstall a disqualified husband is at least as old as George Wallace -- who basically ran his wife Lurleen for governor when he couldn't run: In 1966, after failing to get the legislature to amend the constitution to allow governors to serve consecutive terms, George announced the candidacy of his wife Lurleen for governor. The couple admitted frankly that if Lurleen was elected, George would continue to make the administrative policies and decisions. Mrs. Wallace won the May Democratic primary with 54 percent of the vote which assured her election in November.Hillary running as a front for Bill was also a frequent topic on talk radio for many years. I don't think it's a winning platform -- especially for Hillary, who unless I am reading her wrong would very much want to be seen as earning the presidency on her own merits. In any case, I don't think it's fair to give Paul Campos credit for old ideas. In that respect, I agree with Glenn on another point: Hey, I should just be glad Campos didn't call me the Antichrist.I don't think Campos would have dared. If he had, he'd be the ultimate copycat. I'm only one copycat among many, but hell, at least I'm out of the closet about it, and I try to give credit to others. (Especially Frank J. who probably owns the copyright on the evil Glenn 666 meme if the full truth were told. . .) As to the copycat Glenn Reynolds Anti-Christ, here's my version from last year: Yes, dear friends, just as Hillary has long been considered a possible front candidate for Bill, Glenn has long been a right wing ideologue -- as well as a top contender for 666 anti-Christ Beast status. (So much for "ancient" issues.) posted by Eric on 06.07.06 at 09:57 AM |
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