"that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing????" Surely a travesty so outrageous have never happened.
Posted on 01/26/2008 6:19:19 AM PST by Aristotelian
Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.
Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, ... -- kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons.
The sentiment seems to be concentrated among Barack Obama supporters. Going into the campaign, most of us liked Hillary Clinton just fine, but the fact that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing for her suggested that she might not be a good Democratic nominee. But now that loathing seems a lot less irrational. We're not frothing Clinton haters like ... well, name pretty much any conservative. We just really wish they'd go away.
The big turning point seems to be this week, when the Clintons slammed Obama for acknowledging that Ronald Reagan changed the country. Everyone knows Reagan changed the country. Bill and Hillary have said he changed the country. But they falsely claimed that Obama praised Reagan's ideas, saying he was a better president than Clinton -- something he didn't say and surely does not believe.
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But the conservatives might have had a point about the Clintons' character. Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky jeopardized the whole progressive project for momentary pleasure. The Clintons gleefully triangulated the Democrats in Congress to boost his approval rating. They do seem to have a feeling of entitlement to power.
If Hillary wins the nomination, most of us will probably vote for her because the alternative is likely to be worse. But what happens if she's embroiled in another scandal? Will liberals rally behind her, or will they remember the Democratic primary?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Snort. What took 'em so long?
But I bet they vote for her anyway...
Suckers.
But they will vote for them all the same. Obviously dems don’t have principles or scruples.
“If Hillary wins the nomination, most of us will probably vote for her”
Nothing is sinking in. They’ll vote for her no matter what.
All these phonys in the MSM pretend that they do not approve of the vicious, slimy tactics of the Clintons. But at the same time they call anyone who tells the truth about the Clintons “Clinton haters”. These hypocrites are just trying to keep their skirts clean.
Laugh of the day.
Chait, a contributing editor to Opinion and a senior editor at the New Republic, is the author of “The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics.”
I haven’t read the book. But here’s a description from Publishers Weekly:
The author, a senior editor at the New Republic, is best known for declaring I hate President George W. Bush in 2003. This book traces the roots of his dislike back 30 years, when supply-side economics took over the Republican Party and made cutting taxes the GOP answer to all political and economic questions. American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, Chait declares, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane. To which he adds, the Republicans’ success at defeating the democratic process explains why it has been able to enact its agenda despite a lack of popular support. The rhetoric is inflammatory, but the case is laid out with clarity. Chait claims that traditional Republicans, religious people and social, fiscal and foreign policy conservatives have been cheated as much as liberals, and that unparalleled corruption and ruthless cynicism in Washington and the timidity of nonpartisan media allow the minority to rule.
“but the fact that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing for her”
Typical crap! there is nothing irrational about loathing either of the Clintons. All that is needed is a sense of what makes a person a liar whose only concern is the overwhelming desire to serve their own self interest.
Yeah, her and Karl Marx.
Go figger.
---LA Times
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I think just saw a whole flock of pigs winging their way to the new shopping mall, golf course & mudpit that used to be Lake Lanier...
Yumpin' yiminy....
Kinda like the Republicans voting for McCain....
Rush referenced all this MSM huffing and puffing over Clinton tactics but offered the same conclusion, they will vote for her anyway.
SSDC.
Same...er, scat; different candidate.
Great. They have this realization 16 years after those two lying sacks of crap started to mess up the country.
Thanks for nothing, slow-learning libs.
“Obviously dems don’t have principles or scruples.”
The term “liberal”, when applied to these people, is a misnomer. They are not liberal about anything. They are authoritarians. They are all about control. Freedom and democracy can be scary to them, because it gives people the right to disagree with them.
"that tens of millions of Americans are seized with irrational loathing????" Surely a travesty so outrageous have never happened.
Hillary SCARES those on the left because they see that she doesn’t have the ability, like Bill did, to OBSCURE what she’s really about.
That’s almost as funny as the main article.
The man is obviously badly delusional. After all, it only took him more than a dozen years longer than it should have to realize the Clintons are conniving grifters.
Liberals are lemmings.
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