Daily Howler - May 9, 2005

BEINART STARTS GETTING IT RIGHT! Peter Beinart starts getting it right in the Post—just about six years too late:

MONDAY, MAY 9, 2005

BEINART STARTS GETTING IT RIGHT: Yes, the crazies are coming for Hillary Clinton, as we warned you just last week (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/3/05). Indeed, see this morning’s follow-up piece by the New York Times’ Raymond Hernandez. And omigod! In the matter of Possible Candidate Clinton, Peter Beinart starts getting it right, in today’s Washington Post! In an op-ed column, Beinart warns against the coming attacks on Clinton’s character, and he sets the record straight about her ballyhooed “move to the center.” This is exactly what libs and Democrats should be doing—and they need to start doing it now.