Tucker Carlson: Hillary Clinton is a NeoCon
Not a libertarian? You must be a neocon
Speaking on his self-titled MSNBC opinion program today with Democratic strategist Peter Fenn and Politico’s Jonathan Martin, conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson said that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a neo-conservative, in the same vain as Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld.
Ug.
“She’s a NeoCon”
“How is she not a neocon?”
“Philosophically I just don’t see a difference (between Bush and H. Clinton’s foreign policy stance)“
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Tucker quotes at 2:00 minutes
Writing for Reason, the libertarian monthly, Radley Balko seems to agree:
“No Democrat inspires more wrath and anger on the right than Hillary Clinton. This isn’t because of her policy positions - on most issues, she’s really not all that far removed from President Bush. It’s leftover partisan anger from the Bill Clinton years.”
Cato Institute President Ed Crane recently (pointed) out that when strip away the partisan coating, Mrs. Clinton’s grandiose, big-government vision is really no different than that envisioned by the neoconservatives so loathed by the left. Clinton, remember, not only voted for the Iraq war, she still hasn’t conceded she was wrong to do so, and has made no promise to end it any time soon.
In fact the LA Times reported last week that Clinton has refused to commit even to pulling U.S. troops from Iraq by 2013, which, if elected, would be the end of her first term. TV journalist Ted Kopel recently told NPR that Clinton has admitted the U.S. would still have troops in Iraq at the end of her second term.”
But seriously, anyone who thinks the Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of former president Bill Clinton, would handle foreign policy the same as President Bush loses all credibility. Is she hawkish? Absolutely, but you’d have to be to be the first woman elected president. And she is certainly the most hawkish of all the Democratic presidential candidates.
But the leap from that to being a neoconservative is a mighty distance.
You’re stretching your connections boys. Go away Tucker, go away Balko, go far, far away.
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actually, tell me how Clinton differs from Bush’s current foreign policy?
She did vote to fund the war (over and over again) and she did vote for the Leiberman Bill. Tucker’s actually right here, she’s a Neo-Con loser like Romney, Giuliani, and Huckabee. The two of them have identical platforms, why else do you think the mainstream media has declared them “top tier”? And keep in mind Obama is no different than Hillary, their voting record is almost identical too.
She is a NeoCon. She supported the war in Iraq and it taking steps at going into Iran. She also will not commit to a time table of withdraw. If it quacks like a NeoCon it probably is a NeoCon.