Don’t Do It, Hillary! Joining Forces With Neocons Could Doom Democrats

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14. She may be recalling that the Neocons helped Bill win in 1992

I forget the details -- but Bush the elder had pissed them off by not being sufficiently pro-Israel in some way and Clinton was able to pick up a certain amount of Neocon support.

In a larger sense, though, this goes back to the Truman administration -- or to Kennedy arguing with Nixon about Quemoy and Matsu -- and the time when the Democrats had figured out that being even tougher than Republicans on foreign policy would buy them a certain amount of space to be "soft" on social policy.

It was a flawed bargain even then, but now that the GOP right has demonstrated it can out-crazy anybody on foreign policy, it doesn't even have a pragmatic basis. However, Clinton seems to think it's still possible to go back there.