2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary needs to stop with her bul**hit about DOMA [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)credibility, don't you? Fox News consultant and bitter, angry loser, Dick Morris?
Dick Morris has been in bed with the GOP since he was fired by Clinton.
Why even drag him in here, like a cat with a dead field mouse?
If you haven't gotten your fill of that cretin, you can find him on Fauxsnooze, shitting on Hillary:
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/fox-brings-back-dick-morris-predict-doom
No one is arguing that Clinton was all bold and brave on this issue--he wasn't. What he was, was pragmatic. No one was supporting gay marriage back then. Hell, we didn't pass the fifty percent approval mark on that issue until fairly recently. What he did, though, is he took a trash bill--DOMA, and turned it into the treasure of his re-election. He'd be the first to admit that he did that. But had he hewed to the high road, President Dole would have gotten to work unravelling DADT and making sure that AIDS funding got slashed down to nothing.
There was no good path. DOMA was going to happen, no matter what. Might as well use it to stay in power, fund AIDS research, and appoint a gay ambassador while waiting for the nation to come to their senses.