Granted, we have a sort of permanent silly season in politics, and the presidential race is… absurd in its longevity of focus.  (I suppose that wouldn’t be too ridiculous if it weren’t personality – driven, and narrowed to 2 or 3 candidates to each party, but it is.)  Somewhere past asking Giuliani for the cost of milk or asking Romney for his favorite book, something… popped out at me.  A certain cynicism from members of the chattering class in a transcript of the MSNBC program Tucker, exclamation point.

Tucker asks his interchangable pundit… who would kill more people at whim, Giuliani or Clinton.

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CARLSON: I wonder why it is then that Hillary Clinton, once you take a look at the records and what they say, clearly the most conservative, why is it that she is the most disliked, more dislike, I would say, by Republicans than anybody, including Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel?

BARTLETT: I think she is the most disliked by Democrats.

CARLSON: That`s true actually. Why is that?

BARTLETT: Something about her personality. It grates on people. I don`t think — She doesn`t have her husband`s winning personality. Let`s face it, she has to work at it a lot harder, but, you know, we have elected presidents who have had a lot of worse personalities than her; Richard Nixon, for example. I think if she can position herself as the  candidate of competence, she will have a very good chance. I think Republicans and conversation are wrong to underestimate her.

CARLSON: Would you personally vote for her?

BARTLETT: I would vote for her against some people. I don`t know.

CARLSON: Like who?

BARTLETT: Well, I`m just not very happy about any of the Republicans running. I think Giuliani seems like — has an authoritarian personality.

CARLSON: Wait, wait, and Hillary Clinton doesn`t? You`re saying that he has a more authoritarian personality than Hillary Clinton. If both of them had absolute power, let`s just say, a mind experiment, if they had absolute power, who would kill more?

BARTLETT: That`s a tough question. I think Giuliani would kill more.

I think he`s a tougher guy. And I don`t mean that in a positive way, really. I mean probably the guy who looks the best to me right now is the guy who`s, you know, in the wings, Fred Thompson, but that`s only because I don`t really know exactly where he stands on the issues. He`s just a potentially better candidate than the guys they have running.
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Pausing for a minute, all I can do is pause.

Fantastic election coming up!  Hillary Clinton versus Rudy Giuliani — Skull and Bones Decision 2008: Elect your mass-killer.

I’m only passing on words from mainstream conservative media honchos.

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