Posted on 08/07/2006 8:15:38 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
Dems cant stomach Hillary either!http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=151737
Why don't they run Schumer? He's a real comer! :^)
Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton
By Brett Arends
Boston Herald Business Columnist
Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 09:36 AM EST
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it.
“Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.”
No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups.
But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents.
These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified themselves as “likely” voters in the pivotal state’s Democratic primary. And, behind closed doors, this is what nearly half of them are saying.
“I was amazed,” says Bennett. “I thought there might be some negatives, but I didn’t know it would be as strong as this. It’s stunning, the similarities between the Republicans and the Democrats, the comments they have about her.”
Bennett runs American Research Group Inc., a highly regarded, independent polling company based in Manchester, N.H. He’s been conducting voter surveys there since 1976. The polls are financed by subscribers and corporate sponsors.
He has so far recruited 410 likely voters in the 2008 Democratic primary, and sat down with them privately in small groups to find out what they really think about the candidates and the issues.
His conclusion? “Forty-five percent of the Democrats are just as negative about her as Republicans are. More Republicans dislike her, but the Democrats dislike her in the same way.”
Hillary’s growing brain trust in the party’s upper reaches already knows she has high “negatives” among ordinary Democrats. They think she can win those voters over with the right strategy and message.
But they should get out of D.C., New York and L.A. more often, and visit grassroots members.
Because we’re not talking about “soft” negatives like, say, “out of touch” or “arrogant.”
We’re talking: “Criminal . . . megalomaniac . . . fraud . . . dangerous . . . devil incarnate . . . satanic . . . power freak.”
Satanic.
And: “Political wh***.”
(Note: I don’t usually like reporting such personal remarks, but in this case you can hardly understand the situation without them. I have no strong personal feelings about the senator.)
There are caveats. Any survey can be inaccurate or misleading. And 55 percent of ARG’s sample was either neutral or positive about Sen. Clinton. Thirty-two percent currently say they plan to vote for her in the primary.
But Bennett says he’s never before seen so many N.H. voters show so much hatred toward a member of their own party. He’s never even seen anything close.
He believes top national Democrats are missing this grassroots intensity. Instead, he suspects, they are blinded by poll numbers, which give Hillary a big early lead based on her name recognition. [continue]
Wow! With the possible exceptions of 'satanic' and 'devil incarnate,' isn't it uncanny as to how these same adjectives could be applied to John McCain, the supposed Republican front runner.
I wish they had asked about her hubby also.
You can only lie, steal, and cheat people for so long before even the most degenerate liberals say 'Enough!' Between that and treating your own people like cannon fodder, how much can they expect even the party faithful to tolerate? They've been looking the other way at corruption on a grand scale for 20 years.
This just really surprises me, but then, she did vote for the war. Although most of them did at the time.
"' isn't it uncanny as to how these same adjectives could be applied to John McCain, the supposed Republican front runner."
What's truly "uncanny" is how we end up at in the voting booth always deciding between the lesser of 2 evils.
The Democrat party is imploding as we watch. I predict that in '08 they will run someone so weak that it will make McGoverns run for the presidency look a photo-finish
Fantastic. Hope springs eternal!
Welcome news.
The ashtrays are flying fast and furious as we speak.
Yeah..I saw this earlier today..let me tell yeah, "live free or die" will never jive with Hillary brand Marxism.
Sic Semper Idiotas.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
You may be right. It could be the election that finally throws the Democrats into the outer darkness for at least a generation.
The question is how weak the Republican candidate will be.
Well look whose running the show.
Hillary
Pelosi
Kennedy
Kerry
Ried
Boxer
Feinstein
a bunch of limousine liberal dinosaurs whose agenda is still stuck in the 1970's and brings nothing to the plate but obstruction, hypocrisy, and BS by the truckloads.
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