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More women feeling skeptical about Clinton's authenticity - though they wish they weren't
The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 8, 2007 | Melinda Henneberger

Posted on 07/08/2007 3:49:20 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084

The most appealing thing about Hillary Rodham Clinton has always been her enemies, who often seem not in their right mind, screaming that she is a murderer and calling her names like "Her Thighness." They make you want to like her.

Yet in interviews across the country with women of all ages, races, income brackets and points of view, one of the rare patches of common ground was skepticism about the first female presidential contender with a serious shot at the White House. Over 18 months, I traveled to 20 states listening to women speak at length about what they care about and what drives them crazy as they look toward the presidential election in '08. I ought to like her, many of the strongest Democrats among them said. But on no other matter did left, right and center converge as on the view best summed up as "Anybody but Hillary' – to the point that I began to dread the mention of her name, because it meant we would probably not get around to talking about anything else that day.

All of which runs contrary to the accepted narrative of this election cycle, which is that it is women who are leading the charge for Mrs. Clinton's candidacy. Polling, which at this point still mainly measures name ID, certainly shows a far more mixed picture for Mrs. Clinton where female voters are concerned; 51 percent of those who participated in a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey said they support her for the Democratic nomination.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; fake; fraud; grifter; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; scamartist; womensvote
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The answer is not very complicated.

Q: Why are women more skeptical of Hillary than men?

A: Because women are much better at spotting phonies and disengenuous people than men are.

We all know it.

1 posted on 07/08/2007 3:49:22 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
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She is authentic. Authentically creepy. Authentically criminal. Authentically evil.


2 posted on 07/08/2007 3:54:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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the guilt that many women expressed over their lack of enthusiasm for her.

Ooooh, sexism is a bad thing in everybody else, but we have to support our girl because she represents all of us with sweater decorations and then feel guilty when the reality trumps the wishes.

Sheesh.

3 posted on 07/08/2007 3:54:34 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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More women feeling skeptical about Clinton's authenticity

Perhaps this means that more women are now able to identify a phony the way more men were able to identify her husband as a phony.

4 posted on 07/08/2007 3:55:35 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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If I don't know the person, I always vote for the woman" in any given race, says Paula Hughes, a Boston Democrat

I guess only men can be sexist.

5 posted on 07/08/2007 3:55:56 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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” listening to women speak at length “

Larry the Cable Guy says, “That’s your problem, right there. Women should be obscene and not heard.”

Forgive me Jesus, and all the little queers in dance class.


6 posted on 07/08/2007 3:56:14 PM PDT by gcruse
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Why on earth would women feel guilty about not voting for Hillary? As a mother of two daughters, I’d have to say Hillary is the antithesis of a female role model. I’d feel guilty telling my daughters that Hillary was the best female we could come up with.


7 posted on 07/08/2007 3:57:51 PM PDT by Neverforget01
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as much as I love the idea of Clinton squared, I can't trust her – even though I don't like myself for that.

It just goes on.

Why in the heck do you "like the idea of Clinton" if YOU CAN'T FREAKIN' TRUST HER???

And why in the heck do you FELL GUILTY ABOUT IT?

Have I stepped into an alternate universe here???

8 posted on 07/08/2007 3:58:14 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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9 posted on 07/08/2007 3:58:27 PM PDT by honolulugal
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I think the main reason is, she reminds every woman of her mother-in-law*, and every man of his ex-wife.

She's a screeching, hectoring, holier-than-thou, Marxist Marie Antoinette.

I don't give a flip that's she's ugly and fat. I know plenty of ugly, fat people who are kind, honest, and humble, but hardworking and reliable. Sort of folks you can count on in a jam -- and you don't even notice they're homely or chubby, because their goodness illuminates them from inside and makes them beautiful. It wouldn't make any difference if Hillary had features like Catherine Deneuve -- her inner ugliness would distort and smear them.

*my mother-in-law excepted, she's nice. I think maybe it's every woman's idea of the wicked mother-in-law of legend.

10 posted on 07/08/2007 3:59:12 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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I tend to agree with you about that. Women have an uncanny knack of spotting phonies and disingenuous people, as you mentioned.
11 posted on 07/08/2007 3:59:32 PM PDT by rawhide
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"Larry the Cable Guy says..., “Women should be obscene"

Looks pretty obscene to me.

12 posted on 07/08/2007 4:00:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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women across the political spectrum declared themselves beyond ready for a woman in the White House.

Well, duh. Let's try to be a little discriminating, please, and drop the guilt trips.

13 posted on 07/08/2007 4:00:49 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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A: Because women are much better at spotting phonies and disengenuous people than men are.

Not in my life time they've not been.......

14 posted on 07/08/2007 4:01:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (“To call illegal aliens, undocumented workers, is like calling drug dealers unlicensed pharmacists.”)
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Yes, she does. Now if she’ll just work on the ‘not heard’ part, it’d be a good thing.


15 posted on 07/08/2007 4:02:02 PM PDT by gcruse
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Not in my life time they've not been.......

Women are certainly harder on other women than they are on men...

16 posted on 07/08/2007 4:02:54 PM PDT by Neverforget01
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“first female presidential contender with a serious shot at the White House”

Hillary’s a female? Whodathunk?

17 posted on 07/08/2007 4:03:01 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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Naah. She’s a female. She just isn’t a lady.


18 posted on 07/08/2007 4:04:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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I think the main reason is, she reminds every woman of her mother-in-law*, and every man of his ex-wife.

This could not have been explained better. Thanks.

19 posted on 07/08/2007 4:06:56 PM PDT by WesternPacific
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I find it hard to believe that women in this country would take any pride in that marxist sow being the 1st female President.


20 posted on 07/08/2007 4:07:21 PM PDT by VR-21
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