The Hill reports:

Hillary Clinton agrees there is still a “vast right-wing conspiracy” — and if anything it has only become more richly financed.

During the New Hampshire town hall debate on Wednesday night, CNN host Anderson Cooper asked the presidential hopeful if she still believes there is a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” as she said there was during the late 90s to initially explain the Monica Lewinksy scandal involing her husband.

“Don’t you?” Clinton replied, as the audience laughed. “Yeah. It’s gotten even better funded.”

“They brought in some new multibillionaires to pump the money in. Look, these guys play for keeps.

“They want to control our country.”

Seconds before the conspiracy exchange, a supporter in the audience asked the Democratic front-runner how she would, as nominee and president, defend herself against right-wing attacks.

“I’ve had a lot of practice,” Clinton replied. “I can laugh up here but it’s not easy.

“It is a brutal experience and when it first started happening to me … I was just stunned. I could not understand how they got away with it.

“So now that I’ve been through this for so many years,” the former first lady continued, “my understanding of the political tactics that the other side uses is pretty well versed. They play to keep. They play to destroy.

“I know I have to keep defending against them,” Clinton added. “But I’m the one who has the experience to do that.

“It’s unlike anything you’ve ever gone through, to be the subject of tens of millions of dollars of untrue negative attacks.”

The Clintons have great experience in “they play to destroy” and “tens of millions of dollars of untrue negative attacks,” having instigated the most vicious political machine of someone not named Kennedy. Apparently Hillary isn’t really interested in bridging the partisan and ideological gaps and healing and all that.

That reminds me that about 20 years ago I called a classic rock radio station and dedicated this song to Hillary and Janet Reno:

Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register isn’t done with covering the Iowa caucuses, Politico reports:

In a strongly worded editorial on Thursday, The Des Moines Register called on the Iowa Democratic Party to move quickly to prove that Monday’s results are correct.

The piece titled “Editorial: Something smells in the Democratic Party,” starts out: “Once again the world is laughing at Iowa.”

It gets sharper from there. “What happened Monday night at the Democratic caucuses was a debacle, period. Democracy, particularly at the local party level, can be slow, messy and obscure. But the refusal to undergo scrutiny or allow for an appeal reeks of autocracy,” the DMR reads. “The Iowa Democratic Party must act quickly to assure the accuracy of the caucus results, beyond a shadow of a doubt.”

The editorial cites Clinton’s razor-thin victory as too close “not to do a complete audit of results.”

The newspaper editorial also said there were too many opportunities for error to arise.

“Too many accounts have arisen of inconsistent counts, untrained and overwhelmed volunteers, confused voters, cramped precinct locations, a lack of voter registration forms and other problems,” the editorial reads. “Too many of us, including members of the Register editorial board who were observing caucuses, saw opportunities for error amid Monday night’s chaos.”

The editorial ends by calling on the state’s Democratic Party to “work with all the campaigns to audit results. Break silly party tradition and release the raw vote totals. Provide a list of each precinct coin flip and its outcome, as well as other information sought by the Register. Be transparent.”

I have a better idea: Dump the caucus and create a primary election, and join the 21st century.