Bill Maher: ‘Hawkish’ Hillary Is Practically ‘John McCain in Drag’

In a new post on his Real Time blog, Bill Maher takes on Hillary Clinton’s “hawk problem.” While Clinton does admit that her vote for Iraq War was a “mistake” in her new book Hard Choices, in Maher’s estimation her “hawkish instincts” are alive and well.

Maher cites a months-old New York Times article that characterizes Clinton’s positions as secretary of state as consistently more hawkish than the rest of the Obama administration. When you add her recent comparison of Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, Maher concludes, “She’s almost John McCain in drag.”

“Let’s face it — no Democrat can beat her. She could grow a Hitler mustache and still win the Democratic nomination,” Maher writes, before giving some unsolicited advice to the GOP. “But what if Republicans got smart and nominated an unapologetic dove? That person could splinter Democrats. If only Rand Paul weren’t half-crazy…”

Back in May, Maher sat down for an interview with Larry King in which he said he would love to see someone like Elizabeth Warren run with Clinton and help push her policies to the left. He even gave the pair a nickname: “the granny ticket.”

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