Everybody Wants to be Bill Clinton's Best Friend

     You could see Romney loving his photo-op with Clinton at yesterday's Clinton Global Initiative (CGO).

      What does that say though that everyone wants to be his friend? When you see the way the GOP all wants to buddy up with Bill Clinton it makes you shake your head.

       There are the same people who tried to impeach him in the 90s. Everything they've done to Obama they did to Clinton. Admittedly they used certain different tactics based on the President's race. Still,, there has never been an Administration more under siege than Bill Clinton during the 90s.

       Yet can Romney look any prouder than punch than he did yesterday hanging out with Clinton?

       http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1585990-romney-clinton-do-man-lot-good.html

       Newt Gingrich now, just praised Hillary Clinton again. No mention of Whitewater anywhere.

       http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/newt-talks-up-hillary-clinton-136719.html?hp=t2_3

       What fascinates me about this is what it tell you about the relative standing of the two parties. There are those who say the GOP is going to be in some trouble in the next few years due to demographic shifts. It's looking like Romney's already suffering some of these.

       Pat Buchanan is as usual the conservative most circumspect about this-of course, he's not shy about drawing the racial and ethnic implications of the browning of America.

        http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/pat-buchanan-gop-imperiled-by-decline-of-white-population-20120727

        When the GOPers all outdo themselves to see who can buddy up with Bill the most, I feel like saying: You know, why don't you guys buddy up to your own former President, find a GOP President to eulogize.

         After all, it's not like W is dead or something. Yet no one seems to want to be seen with him in public. He wasn't even invited to the convention. Earlier in the Summer some GOP Senators wanted to ask Dick Cheney about sequestration, and they didn't allow any cameras in the room when he was speaking.

          One way to crystallize the different fortunes of the two parties might be to compare the night and day difference in the popularity of the last President from each party.