Dispatches from the wingnut-O-sphere

I am not a neocon so I do not know everything there is to know about anything.  William Kristol is a neocon so he knows everything about everything including the straight dope behind this burgeoning right wing conspiracy theory:

It's in fact perfectly evident that Bill Clinton is very much in control with respect to 2012: He wants Barack Obama to lose, and is helping that cause.

 He wants Obama to lose not primarily, I think, because it probably opens the door wider for Hillary in 2016, but for two other more important (to him) reasons:

1). An Obama reelection loss would leave Clinton as the only twice-elected (i.e., successful) Democratic president since FDR.

2). Obama often disses Clinton, explaining that equality, family income, general well-being in America have suffered in the last three decades or so.

Who was president during most of one of those decades, Clinton must think to himself as he grinds his teeth? In Obama's recounting of recent American history, Clinton tends to be a hapless parenthesis between Reagan-Bush and Bush II. This account presumably doesn't sit well with America's 42nd president, and he's therefore cheerfully doing his best to see to it that Mitt Romney becomes America's 45th in November.

This meme is breaking in various places on the wingnet. But it falls into the realm of the lazy. As a general rule one should not automatic assign ill or evil motives to your political opponents. 

Unless otherwise proven wrong, it is appropriate to start from the premises that John Boehner is not a evil man. Rather, he is merely a weak man who is impotent in the face of his teahadist hoards. Also the same with Mitch McConnell, he is not an evil man. He merely wants to redistribute resources to his favored classes. 

Sure both McConnell and Boehner are liars, but that is an occupational hazard for politicians. Sure both McConnell and Boehner put party ahead of country but that is because each confuses one for the other. Both individuals are definitely under or misinformed and would benefit from time spent attending symposiums held by liberal college professors at the FEMA run Camp Bachmann with fellow anti-Obama dissidents, but assuming that each man is operating under ill motives is lazy. And this is the fallacy that third tier Neocon William Kristol makes with Clinton.

Now that I think of it, William Kristol would benefit from some time at Camp Bachmann, assuming it ever gets built.