Former Republican Strategist ‘Vows’ to Make Hillary Clinton President
Licking their wounds after the midterm elections, U.S. Democrats are turning to a former Republican media hit man to improve their chances of holding on to the White House in 2016.

David Brock speaks at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark. in March. Photo by AP/Danny Johnston
Licking their wounds after the midterm elections, U.S. Democrats are turning to a former Republican media hit man to improve their chances of holding on to the White House in 2016.
That hit man’s name is David Brock. He sports a silver pompadour and Trotsky-style wire-rimmed glasses, The Guardian reports. His plan is to beat Republicans through a combination of “quick-response law, ethics groups and journalism groups, a strategy pioneered, naturally, by the Republicans.”
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“I know from experience that, over a 30-year arc, rightwing conservatives came to dominate American political discourse in the media, and it needs to be countered,” Brock told the Observer last week. “And I know how something like it would work on the progressive side.”
In the culture wars of the mid-90s, Brock, 52, was a far-right hero. He wrote a book casting doubt on the credibility of Anita Hill, the aide who accused supreme court justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Then, as part of the conservative-funded Arkansas Project, Brock broke the story of “Troopergate” and identified a woman named Paula, aka Paula Jones, one of a string of Bill Clinton “bimbo eruptions” that would culminate in the Monica Lewinsky-inspired impeachment hearings.
Once so committed that his answering machine message said: “Hello, I’m out trying to bring down the president,” Brock has turned on his deep-pocketed former sponsors with a vengeance. First came his sympathetic biography of Hillary Clinton in 1996, followed a year later by an Esquire magazine essay, Confessions of a Right-Wing Hitman, that announced his break with the right. Brock recalled last week how in the mid-90s he began to have “huge reservations about the character and integrity of the people in the conservative movement”.
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— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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