p>On The View yesterday co-host Joy Behar was livid at the Democratic presidential candidates “ganging up on Hillary” in the last debate and vented her spleen at them.  I have transcribed the main portion of her comments below.

“On the other hand it’s like why don’t you just attack the Republican Party? Why are you attacking your own?  Ronald Reagan, everybody loves Ronald Reagan, he was a smart guy in many ways and he said that the 11th commandment is thou shalt not attack a Republican.  Well the Democrats need to learn that particular commandment and shut up about Hillary. Start attacking Giuliani and Romney and Huckabee and all these other losers okay?” 

Behar’s rhetoric isn’t surprising as the show has long been dominated by liberals and only a few weeks ago had Hillary Clinton where she and her other liberal cohorts fawned over the presumptive Democratic nominee.  What is surprising was that Behar actually used the words smart and Reagan in the same sentence and urged the Democrats to adopt a Reagan strategy.  I thought it was heresy for a liberal to actually say something nice about Reagan.

For Behar it really isn’t about Democrats attacking each other as they have been doing that since the campaign began.  She just took the attacks on Hillary as a personal affront and since the attacks put a chink in her armor Behar felt compelled to invoke Reagan of all people to get Obama and company off Hillary’s back.

Politics do make strange bedfellows.

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