Posted on 12/26/2004 2:43:52 AM PST by beyond the sea
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is already the frontrunner for her party's presidential nomination in 2008.
But to win the general election, she'll have to overcome opposition from a significant number of voters who absolutely can't stand her.
Survey after survey shows that approximately one-third of New Yorkers has a negative opinion of Clinton, the New York Times said Saturday.
"The voters who disapprove of Clinton are numerous and unshakable, and they have been around so long that they have a name in political circles. Hillary haters."
The former first lady's negative image is largely driven by the perception that she traded on her husband's marital misconduct to gain power and influence in government.
While Mrs. Clinton has largely overcome that image with her constituents, outside of New York the percentage of Hillary haters remains problematically high.
In a recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey, roughly 4 of 10 Americans said they disapprove of her.
"There's work for her to do nationally," Marist poll director Lee Miringoff told the Times. "Beyond her appeal to the Democratic base, there is a need for her to build bridges to reach out to moderate Republicans and independent voters if she hopes to succeed."
Mrs. Clinton, however, remains undeterred.
Asked recently whether her divisive image has Republicans hoping that she becomes the Democrats' next presidential nominee, the former first lady told NBC's "Today Show," "We have a president who is quite polarizing - and very successful, I might add."
LOL! Just to remember some of the pajama gems from the old media........
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CBS said we are "partisan political operatives" and the other CBS flunky adding "in pajamas." ........... A defensive Dan Rather went on the air Friday to complain of what he called a "counterattack" from "partisan political operatives."
"It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy, to Drudge to the mainstream media in less than 12 hours," said Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush.
LOL.......... I'm glad you're out there in those pajama's. I got out of mine way too early today ...... fire wood to gather.
Remember this?
"She's a Yankee, and many Arkansans are glad she may not come back to the state. You can't betray what you were never loyal to in the first place." -- Jerry Russell, a long-time Arkansas political consultant on Hillary Clinton.
I love that joke and have told it about 20 times over time here at FR. And believe it or not, you are the first person to relate to it so well. Thank you!
I think that is so damn funny, yet you are the first person to seem to like it a lot. (I can just see everyone in traffic trying to get the last drops of gas out of their tanks for "the cause".)
Large doses of rat inhibitor.
OK, you asked for it! I captured the _entire parody_ off the Imus program. Some more:
She won't do housework, 'cause it makes her sick,
Doesn't bake cookies, like the rest of the chicks!
The ace in her hole...is a Willy that's slick,
That's why the (former!) first lady is a tramp!
She likes the way that.. Christophe does her hair,
National health care,
She's rich, Hah! A b@#$tch!
Executive privilege... is what makes her damp,
That's why the (former) first lady is a tramp!
P.S. Mike Wallace tried to have Imus _arrested_ for airing this.
That statement should be shouted from the mountain tops EVERYDAY!!!
Right...... check out post # 73 if you feel like it. I think we have to take it upon ourselves over the next four years to spread the word about Hillary through anecdotal evidence. As is seen on this thread, she has given us much and more to use, but we have to get it out there in front of the 'generally politically unaware amd disinterested' populace.
I would suggest that it will be, and it will be a better known phrase than "It's the economy stupid". ;)
Everyone must remember this ---- a traitor to this nation would have been president had about 60,000 votes turned around in Ohio. Don't anyone tell me that Hillary cannot be elected. Could she win Ohio in 2008? Yes. Iowa? Yes. New Mexico? Yes. She positioned herself on the Arms Services Committee for a reason. If she is not stopped in 2006, I believe she will be the president in 2008.
"It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small." - HRC in her U.N. Conference on Women
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." - HRC, 1993
"To confine impeachable conduct to indictable offenses may well be to set a standard so restrictive as not to reach conduct that might adversely affect the system of government. Some of the most grevious offenses against our constitutional form of government may not entail violations of the criminal law.....Io limit impeachable conduct to criminal offenses would be incompatible with the evidence...and would frustrate the purpose that the framers intended.... Impeachment was evolved.....to cope with both the inadequacy of the criminal standards and the impotence of the courts to deal with the conduct of great public figures. It would be anomalous if the framers, having barred criminal sanctions from the impeachment remedy....intended to restrict the grounds for impeachment to conduct that was criminal". - Hillary Rodham, Staff Attorney House Judiciary Committee, 1974
"I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am." - HRC, in her book, 'Living History'
I'm surprised he didn't end up in a place like Ft. Marcy Park....... before his car. ;-)
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I don't hate Hillary, I just view her similarly to:
Heart attacks
Dog bites
Bubonic plague
Hemorrhoids
Flunking your drivers test
Having to go to the prom with your cousin
Sitting down in a theater seat only to find someone left vomit there
Having an impacted (& infected) wisdom tooth
Finding out your wife left you for another woman
Anal probes
I think you get the idea.....
the stop Hillary graphic #poster 74, can be posted onto all your e-mail - thanks 74!
Surprise, surprise. This is clearly a set up piece in favor of Hitlery. It's again one of the Clintons most used political tricks to bring out something negative about Hitlery. It's effective for them because it neuters Hitlery's bad points and when the you know what hits the fan; it won't matter. It also blames everyone else except her. I believe the ex-Prez was very good at this trick and a trick it is.
Well, too bad for Hitlery. She has already proved what she is. And it's not because she is a woman, a senator, or many other things. It's because she is a cheat, liar and thief. She believes deceit and trickery are the things that will get her ahead. She also takes no responsibilty especially for things that go wrong. In other words, she has no character and no foundation. Most of all she has no credibility. I wonder if any of her alledged advisors has ever told her once you give that away you can never get it back? It's obvious her husband never learned.
So, again too bad, Hitlery. You just don't get it; and hopefully, you will never be President of the United States.
Well, looks like I've been found out.
Did I forget paranoid. Hitlery is a paranoid.
So called?
I'd vote for Arnold before taking any action that would facilitate Hillary taking the reigns of power.
OK!
As Butch Cassidy said to Sundance, "Don't sugarcoat it, Sundance, just tell it like it is!"
LOL! You're right on the button......... and she's had way too much cosmetic surgery that has freshened up that naturally nasty and ruthless countenance.
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