Hillary Clinton gets it

Intern. Herald Tribune/The New York Times ^ | March 17, 2005 | Nicholas D. Kristof

[yoe]

NEW YORK If the Democratic Party wants to figure out how to win national elections again, it has an unexpected guide: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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. [snip]The first lesson Clinton is demonstrating is the need to talk much more openly about God and prayer. That resonates in a country where a Pew poll found that 60 percent of Americans pray at least once a day.

. [snip]"I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently.

. [snip]Democrats are usually more comfortable talking about sex than God. But that doesn't work in a country where 70 percent say that "presidents should have strong religious beliefs."

. [snip]The Democratic Party commits seppuku in the heartland by coming across as indifferent to people's doubts about abortions or even as pro-abortion. ...

. . . [snip]Clinton is also hard to dismiss as a screechy obstructionist .

[snip]The makeover is working with New York state voters. Clinton has an approval rating in the state of 69 percent, according to a New York Times poll.

. [snip]In small towns like Yamhill, any candidate from New York carries a lot of baggage, and Clinton more than most. Moreover, television magnifies her emotional reserve and turns her into a frost queen. Clinton's negative ratings nationally were around 40 percent at last count, and Hillary-hating thrives.

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[yoe]

Is this then "The Big Adventure of Hillary's Makeover?" Algore's Misadventure of Makeovers did not bode well with the voters nor will this up and down hem length for Hillary. Americans recognize real people and basically want the same in politicians. The time of ‘dressing up’ for the vote is passé™ – only the real person need apply…that leaves Mrs. Clinton out…regardless of her ‘costume of the day’ approach.

[Puppage]

The makeover is working with New York state voters

News flash....New York AIN'T MIDDLE AMERICA

[DainBramage]

"Ive always been a praying person you FJB."

[Fudd Fan]

oh gag me

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Hillary Clinton gets it . . .

"Ha! Ha! She doesn't from me!"

[Mark in the Old South]

A New Yorker will never carry the SOUTH.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

She probably prayed to satan, they both have much in common.NSNR

[beyond the sea]

The first lesson Clinton is demonstrating is the need to talk much more openly about God and prayer.

Get this from a few days ago!

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Forget her prepared speeches, put aside her moderate statements on Iraq and abortion. This is how you know she's running for president in 2008. Ten days ago a reporter interviewed her in the halls of the Senate (another kind of cloister) and asked if she planned to run for president. She did not say, "I'm too busy serving the people of New York to think about the future." She did not say, "Oh, I already have a heckuva lot on my plate." She said, "I have more than I can say grace over right now." ---- Noonan

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

How sick and low of Hillary to put it that way, eh?

[Fudd Fan]

...New Yorker? by way of Arkansas

[mountaineer]

PREVIOUSLY POSTED.

[Rodney King]

It's an interesting article, which poses the following question: Can you win a national election by pretending to be someone that you are not?

[Zeroisanumber]

News flash....New York AIN'T MIDDLE AMERICA

Outside of NYC it is.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Here's some news for the NY Slimes: Hitlery Clinton is not getting my vote. Ever. I don't care if she divorces Bill, starts attending Jerry Falwell's church, and gets baptized in the River Jordan.

[TexasCajun]

Makeover by: Queer Eye For The Presidency

[LiveBait]

I still can't believe the best candidate the Democrats can come up with is Hillary Clinton. Ridiculous.

[edpc]

More of the TRULY faithful are praying she doesn't get the nomination or win in 2008. If there is one thing she does get....it's the meaning of the word duplicity.

[Fudd Fan]

well they came up with Kerry in '04... talk about not being the best. There is precedent, is all I'm sayin'

[shield]

What a liar....she's a butch....Americans' don't won't a lesbian as our president....

[Fudd Fan]

"Americans' don't won't a lesbian as our president..."

well not THAT lesbian anyway.
Seriously, does anyone think there will be someone with the -ahem- courage to bring that subject up, should she be the nominee? It would make things interesting.

[CyberAnt]

No! Hillary doesn't get it!

Hillary still does not know that the RED states DON'T BELIEVE HER. And .. even if she dumped her husband - we still wouldn't believe her.

[gridlock]

How can anybody accept that she has changed completely today, but will not change back the day after Election Day, 2008?

One nice thing about a Hillary! Presidency is that the 'Pubbies would take every single available seat in the 2010 mid-term election.

[Fudd Fan]

she could sing W's praises constantly, kiss his cheek, make nice with Repubs, whatever.. and I'd still never vote for her

[Fudd Fan]

ooops... so sorry to wish that on W

[NorCalRepub]

LOL.......isn't that how most politicians win??????

[hflynn]

I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently.

Lord, we JUST pray that you would JUST like, JUST really JUST totally save Bills POS ass one more time and JUST give me the same opportunity you gave my scumbag husband.

[Search4Truth]

They think we are that stupid. They will never get it.

We answer to a Higher authority, we don't just talk about it.

[Rodney King]

LOL.......isn't that how most politicians win??????

Well, it's a matter of degree. Reagan, W, Bush 41, and even BJ Clinton are all basically the people that they claimed to be. What is being proposed as the fix for the dems is for them to pretend to be the complete opposite of what they really are.

[skinkinthegrass]

agree....I don't subscript to "the Politics/flavor on the Month" Club...

[Southack]

"Abortions fell steadily under Bill Clinton, who espoused that position, and have increased significantly during President Bush's presidency."

The Left lies effortlessly.

[Polyxene]

"The Big Adventure of Hillary's Makeover?"

Which one? She has had so many makeovers, I don't think even she knows who she is. Wife? Mother? Cookie baker? Lawyer? ad hoc POTUS? Feminist? Pro-abortion? Anti-abortion? Stock trader? Senator? Moderate? Socialist? Long hair? Short hair? Anti-military? Pro-military? Makes my head spin!! I would never vote for her or any other dem/lib/socialist. None of them have any core values (except, of course Zell Miller). They just blow whichever way the wind is blowing and say whatever is expedient to the particular audience.

[longtermmemmory]

Ugly still goes straight to the bone regardless of makeover.

Hitlary is still Hitlary no matter what she says or how many plastic surgeries she has or how much she stays away from ther girlfriends.

She is a third way socialist. She will appoint socialists to the court, feminists to the UN and an assortment of freaks to her cabinet and bureacratic positions.

[NorCalRepub]

haha....I know, just kidding.....most vacillate with the truth but her and Kerry toss around like ships in high seas only she does it better than Kerry cause she knows she doesn't have to worry about her base too much

[skinkinthegrass]

Can you win a national election by pretending to be someone that you are not?

..scum Jimah Carter and Bubba Klintoon DID. :^(

[RetiredArmy]

If Hillary Klinton has it, only penicillin will cure it.

[Mark in the Old South]

I do not recall she ever ran for office in AK.

[CyberAnt]

I'm in total agreement!

[KC_Conspirator]

"Ive always been a praying person you FJB."

LOL!

[skinkinthegrass]

Can you win a national election by pretending to be someone that you are not?

..scum Jimah Carter and Bubba Klintoon DID..still doesn't explain Bubba's 2nd term though. :^((

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

NEW YORK "If the Democratic Party wants to figure out how to win national elections again, it has an unexpected guide: Hillary Rodham Clinton."

Don't be a CINO (Conservative in Name Only)
Don't listen to CINO's in politics,
the Main Stream CINO media,
and even here on Free Republic.
EXPOSE the traitor for what he really is, The Enemy Within.

Don't listen to CINO's who want to "move on".
And tell you "get over it Kerry lost"
"Kerry is finished."
He's NOT finished!

And remember this.

All it will take is for Clinton to have more problems with her health
to guarantee that Kerry WILL run in '08.

Remember all who told you not to worry about klintoon, hitlery and reno
after the 2000 election?
Remember all who said Ashcroft would prosecute them.
Remember Chinagate, Pardongate, Waco, Vince Foster, the Jewish town in NY etc., etc., etc. ?
Well reno ran against Jeb Bush and hitlery wants to beat Hanoi Kerry in 08

Are YOU willing to listen to the CINO's again?

[Right Cal Gal]

Yep, and she can position herself as the Mother of the Nation all she wants. We have sound bites, we have sound clips and we have her whole "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" that was out to get Billy BJ....

And more than that, we need to bring out Billy Dale, whom she and her husband hounded for the Travel Office scandal, all the way through the courts, and which a jury took 45 minutes to acquit, although attorneys' fees cost him his life savings defending himself against trumped up charges (for which Janet Reno should have been booted right then and there).

Yeah, Hiliary, keep trying. You ain't foolin' no one.

[spodefly]

Alinsky taught her well.

Go for the middle. Get the power. Doesn't matter how.

The only thing that baffles me is why anyone believes anything she says. She is a values-neutral, morally relative chimera who is concerned with only 2 things -- Hillary Clinton and power.

[BenLurkin]

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Rodham Clinton June 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/28/politics2238EDT0845.DTL

[BenLurkin]

[Congressman Billybob]

The title of this article is dead wrong. It reads, "Hillary Clinton Gets It." The correct title is, "Hillary Clinton Gets the Need to Fake It." She reads enough polls to know what she must pretend to be, to have a chance to be elected.

Some additional thoughts on how Hillary! fits into this tissue of deception are in my column this week. Click below.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Condi Rice & Pierce Flanigan's Father's Hat"

[yoe]

Sorry, I did check first - must have not have seen it......but then exposing Mx. Clinton more than she exposes herself is right much fun......

[mrsmith]

"Is this then "The Big Adventure of Hillary's Makeover?" "

At the NYTimes _{"All the Fawning Lies About Hillary That Will Fit"TM} every article is part of the Hillary makeover.

[Tuba Guy]

[pabianice]

I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently... [snip]

The entire quote is:

"I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently... "I've long prayed that Bill's penis would drop off..."[snip]

[LegendHasIt]

"I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently.

Uh, minor typo in that statement:

That is "PREYING" not praying.

[Tom Bombadil]

I've always been a praying person," Clinton declared recently

She's always been a lot of things.

Ask Juanita Broderick what she is.