P.J. O’Rourke endorsed Hillary Clinton, “the second worst thing that could happen to America” Wednesday in The Daily Beast.
“Better the devil you know than the Lord of the Flies on his own 757. Flying to and fro in the earth, with gold-plated seatbelt buckles, talking nativist, isolationist, mercantilist, bigoted, rude, and vulgar crap,” O’Rourke wrote.
He then explained, by way of analogy, poem and the like, the appeal of Hillary Clinton.
Hillary is wrong about everything. She is to politics and statecraft what Pope Urban VIII and the Inquisition were to Galileo. She thinks the sun revolves around herself. But Trump Earth™ is flat. We’ll sail over the edge. Here be monsters. … Hillary, I endorse you although you don’t belong in power—you picture of self-satisfaction out of doors. Count me the Iago of your supporters, you ding-dong bell in your West Wing, wild-cat in your can’t-stand-the-heat-get-out-of-the-kitchen, plaster saint in your injuries, player in your housewifery, and housewife in your bed. (Sorry, my mistake, that’s somebody else’s wife in bed with your husband.) You’re a smug one, Hillary, You really are a snoot, You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as a newt, Hillary, You’re a bad banana in an garish and expensive power suit! You’re a limousine liberal, Hillary, Your heart’s an empty hole, Your brain is full of Sidney Blumenthal, you have boiled kale in your soul, Hillary, I endorse you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! In sure and certain hope of resurrection I endorse Hillary.
Read the full endorsement here.
O’Rourke’s written statement comes after his half-hearted Hillary endorsement Monday on National Public Radio.
“I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises,” O’Rourke said. “It’s the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she’s way behind in second place. She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.”
