Bruce Bartlett writes in the LA Times about something I've been noticing, too: conservative commentators think that of all the Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton is the most conservative and they have a strange sort of respect for her.
Read his column. Here's the conclusion: "But at least a few conservative opinion-makers are ratcheting downward their level of resistance. They are coming to terms with the growing likelihood that she will be our next president and concluding that maybe it is something they can live with."