Rupert Murdoch Endorses Hillary

Well, not quite - yet. But in their lead editorial today, the New York Post lauded her proposal to boost military recruitment by 80,000 troops - and called her a "warrior" to boot:

"Whatever motives one might wish to impute, [Hillary] seems to recognize the security paradigm that undergirds politics in the 21st century....

"In her four years in office, Senator Clinton has been one of the most consistently supportive members of her party on the conflict in Iraq and on the broader War on Terror....

"It would be ironic if Mrs. Clinton converted herself into the candidate most earnestly committed to ensuring that the U.S. Army has the tools necessary to win this war."

Here we go again with what is arguably the Right's biggest weakness: the compulsion to be "fair" to the DisLoyal Opposition. So the Post discusses her military recruitment proposal in isolation rather than in the context of her criticism of the Pentagon for using aggressive recruitment tactics, her accusing military recruitiers of invading the privacy of potential recruits and using racial profiling, her May 16, 2002 publicity-grabbing charge on the Senate floor that the President knew 9/11 was coming and did nothing to stop it, her endless carping about the Iraqi campaign, and her flip-flopping attempt to grab national security cred through the back door of the illegal immigration issue. And in the process they forget the cardinal rule of analyzing the Clintons: Look at what they are, and then what they do, but never listen to what they say.

Ronald Reagan used to call it "trust, but verify." Newsmax calls the NYP's alternate tangent "helping Hillary win the White House by pretending she's suddenly morphed into General Patton in a pantsuit."

I call it "Five years later and not a damn thing has changed."

Nor, most likely, will it three years hence.

But at least Mr. Murdoch will get a plum seat on the inauguration platform when Mrs. Clinton is sworn in.

At least until he actually shows up to take it. Then she'll have him deported.

Gotta tighten up the borders, y'know.