Dick Morris: These accusations are highly personal & have little bearing on what kind of president Hillary would make.

The following are excerpts from a piece Dick Morris wrote that appears in The Hill:

I am no defender of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s, to put it mildly. But the recent charges in Ed Klein’s book to the effect that she is a closet homosexual or that Bill raped her and that this act triggered Chelsea’s conception are as crazy as the list that was circulating around of the 20 or so people the Clintons allegedly had killed.

These accusations do not belong in our public dialogue. They hit below the belt and tend to discredit the more serious and sober concerns so many of us have about the danger she would present in high office.

How can anyone say if the charges are true? Ed Klein is a respected author, a former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine and the foreign editor for Newsweek. He would not have written these charges without some substantiation. But these accusations (in The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President) are highly personal and have little bearing on what kind of president Hillary would make.

Bill Clinton made a fine president on domestic issues because of his ability to find common ground in the center of our process.

Criticize Hillary all you want. She deserves every bit of it. But let’s stay within the foul lines, shall we?

(The above is the nice part of a rather critical article about Hillary.)