GOP's political rehabilitation of Bill Clinton

We must harken back to our fathers' wholesome, anti-American radicalism of the 90s to save our country

Ah, the 90s.  Believe it or not, I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy daily, read all Ayn Rand's "masterpieces," and subscribed to National Review.  I voted for Bob Dole!  I really drank the kooky conservative Kool-Aid.

I remember myself and other conservatives foaming at the mouth about how Clinton hated America; Clinton was going to destroy the economy "with the largest peace time tax increase in U.S. history;" Clinton killed Vince Foster, Ron Brown and about 40 other people; Clinton was going to take all our guns away; Clinton was handing over our sovereignty to the UN as their black choppers invaded our airspace with impunity.  And on and on.

If all these right-wing voices (including my own) were to be believed, America was in certain decline and facing imminent disaster.

And now, lo and behold, Repulicans are looking back wistfully on the Clinton years with fondness. 

Doesn't it make you conservatives wonder, if only just for a moment, if you're not being unreasonable and paranoid now as well?  Maybe Obama is not the Anti-Christ, or an Afro-Arab-Asian Manchurian Candidate, or a crypto-Muslim?...

... Nah!  Of course he is all those things!  Definitely Obama is the most liberal, anti-American POTUS ever...  until the next Democrat gets elected, that is.

On The Trail, Even Republicans Spin Clinton Years Into Gold

By Ari Shapiro

August 9, 2012 | NPR

URL:  http://n.pr/OTvh36