By Jack Cashill
Today I received a fundraising letter from conservative comic writer P.J. O'Rourke. On the envelope, above a caricature of O'Rourke, is one of his more celebrated quotes: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. The last I heard from O'Rourke was in May, when he proudly declared, "I endorse Hillary Clinton for president." He added, "Better the devil you know than the Lord of the Flies on his own 757. Flying to and fro in the earth, with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, talking nativist, isolationist, mercantilist, bigoted, rude and vulgar crap."
I opened the envelope today to discover who on the right would use a Hillary endorser to raise funds. It was the Cato Institute, a D.C.-based think-tank "dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace." Which of these principles, I wondered, would a Hillary presidency ensure? The answer, of course, is none. She is the teenage boy with whiskey and car keys, but worse: she is the teenage boy who leaves the scene after a fatal DUI and gets the old man to bribe the judge.
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Like the rest of the NeverTrump crowd, the Cato people will be smug about their irrelevancy.........Jeb Bush or Scott Walker or Marco Rubio – the media would have customized an attack strategy to take down that candidate just as savagely. Even if Carly Fiorina or Ben Carson were the nominee, the media would have somehow managed to portray either of them as "unbelievably racist, misogynistic and homophobic."...........Read more
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