I Have A Script For That

To answer Scott’s question, the narrative that would be used to try to counter Clinton was already in place:

Even here, Lawrence couldn’t quite make himself say that Clinton had given a very good speech. He went straight to a standard old scripted concern: Bill Clinton talked too long!

Lawrence is a squirrel. His mind drifted back to one of the three million times when numbskulls like him swore that President Clinton had bombed, only to learn different.

(Please note: O’Donnell said “the public opinion” was unanimous that Clinton went too long in that famous State of the Union address. That claim is absurdly inaccurate. In instant polling of the address, public opinion was very positive. It was insider pundits, fools like O’Donnell, who insisted that Clinton had spoken too long.)

And, so, the script shall be re-typed. First, by everyone’s favorite pseudo-intellectual Roger Kimball, who follows his own script as well as the inane conventional wisdom. He starts off with the greatly overused Hobbes quote many people who know nothing about Leviathan (a class of people that apparently includes Kimball, as in making the unwise choice to try to place the quote in context he seems to have Hobbes confused with Robert Nozick) can repeat. He then milks the quote for the glaringly obvious joke, apparently thinking that this will make his recycling of foolish, decades-old narratives about Clinton look smart. As always, it’s doesn’t.

Does Althouse repeat this too? Of course, although in fairness since Althouse lacks the attention span for anything more intellectuallty taxing than American Idol or — to get several factors less substantive and intelligent — Instapundit, she may well have invented this asinine narrative for the occasion if it wasn’t already out there.

I will be merciful enough not to get into the ongoing obsession with Bill Clinton’s sex life Althouse demonstrates in a subsequent post. But I can’t resist her assertion that Clinton would probably undermine Obama, because “Hillary has too much to gain from an Obama loss.” Um, excuse me? Are you saying that Hillary Clinton would rather run against a Republican incumbent? That she would be more likely to win the nomination if her husband publicly stabs Obama in the back and he loses? Can you teach law at Wisconsin without knowing about the 22nd Amendment? So many mysteries. I mean, I try to watch JFK every year because it’s one of the funniest movies ever made. (“I never knew Kennedy was such a threat to the establishment.” Indeed!) But give Stone this — it’s internally consistent once you get past the insane premise. Althouse’s Clinton obsession has such a powerful hold on her mind that she can’t even figure out how Clinton’s penis connects to the saucer people, and just posits conspiracies that are entirely random.