If the right wants Clinton to be the nominee, why didn't they start bashing Obama earlier?

[Quintana-Jones]

If you were the right-wing, and you had wanted Clinton to win the nomination, wouldn't you have started trashing Obama when it was early enough to derail his candidacy?

David Brooks, The Weekly Standard, Peggy Noonan, Bob Novak, all had hateful words towards Hillary and nice ones for Obama for a few months, until Hillary was trailing Obama by over 100 delegates. Then all of a sudden these phonys knew they had accomplished their goal: Knock Hillary out. Now Hillary is irrelevant since she ain't going nowhere, and you all know it.

The right is smart enough to know Obama already locked the nomination, so they started roughening him up as early as possible. Why waste time?

Look at the archives of Charles Krauthammer, George Will, and any other right-wing columnist or pundit. Who did they slam on a daily basis throughout a huge part of the primaries? Hillary. Only once bashing Obama would be of no benefit to Hillary did they start the hit parade.

The theory that the right wanted to have Clinton as their opponent makes no sense.