Former President Bill Clinton took a break from his busy schedule in South Florida Monday to visit Newsmax Media and its founder and CEO, Christopher Ruddy. Clinton was in the area while making several stops to support Democratic candidates. -Newsmax Breaking News, August 17, 2010
This positively floored me. I mean totally sent me for a loop. Chris Ruddy is a guy who made a name for himself investigating Clinton escapades from Whitewater to TrooperGate, and on to the Vince Foster incident. And now, Bill and Chris are hanging together and doing photo-ops.
Being the pattern-recognition kind of guy I am, I had to come up with some scenarios why this would make sense to either side. I came up with this:
Newsmax is branching out to the "moderate" democrats, most of whom still like Bill, and most of whom probably have no further love for BHO. The Newsmax readership has to compete with a lot of other media, and Chris Ruddy is certainly the type of personality that would do something completely different, even shocking. (it worked!)
Bill is no doubt eager to have all the messy elements of his and Hillary's past encapsulated in some Arkansas mausoleum, and if he and Chris are now Ruddy-buddy, the chances of that happening are much better.
Not that you heard this here first, but I can already visualize the HRC 2012 bumper stickers.
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