I was just going to congratulate the Dem regulars for getting Clinton-42 to calm down a bit; but if it is annoying AS, then my instincts may be wrong, because AS is almost a perfectly contrary indicator on all things Clinton.
Flashback, from the NYTimes
By most outward signs, former President George Bush has maintained a cautious distance from Gov. George W. Bush's quest for the White House, seldom making joint appearances with his son and rarely commenting on the election.
But behind the scenes, Mr. Bush is anything but remote. On several occasions between December and May, Karl Rove, the chief strategist for his son's campaign, traveled from Austin, Tex., to Houston, where the former president spends the winter, to give him private briefings.
His friends say that Mr. Bush regularly exchanges calls or e-mail messages with about a half-dozen senior officials in the Texas governor's campaign and that his chief of staff, Jean Becker, is on the phone with Mr. Rove almost every day.
And neither father nor son is shy about reaching out to the other. One close family friend said they usually chatted within 15 to 30 minutes after the end of each of the debates in the Republican primaries.
Where were all the cries of "dynasty" then, when that word really applied?
It wouldn't be such a HUGE inconsistency, except, have you noticed, the right-leaning folks get all upset just as soon as the Left appears to have any form of institutional coherency or consistency, even as they look with hallowed Hyakian reverence on their own proverbial Plymouth rocks.
Don't believe me? Just stay alert and the evidence will present itself to the prepared mind. For instance, did you just notice how horrified AS was this week at entrenched civil rights leadership? Same for the "gay Left establishment"? It's not just AS, who probably comes at it from a unique perspective, it's almost the whole field.
