Watching the Democrats’ convention lionize Hillary Clinton gave me some sense of the way Moses must have cringed when he looked from Mount Sinai and saw his relatives and friends dancing around the image of a golden calf. I’m a lifelong conservative who has to admit there are good people in that convention, somewhere.  So what is so lacking or misunderstood in their lives as Americans that these Democrats feel compelled to pay homage to this woman?  It’s not as if folks don’t understand who she is – absent a single generous bone, grasping, a proven serial liar and character assassin endlessly contemptuous of those who can’t answer back, and with her only admitted interest in this great republic, and the Democratic Party itself, the power that may be hers as president. So I guess it’s much as Dorothy Rabinowitz once wrote: the reason Democrats do what they do is that if they don’t, they don’t eat.  In previous...(Read Full Post)