What’s so hard to understand? She’s to the right what Obama is to the left. Obama managed to fool enough of the center to win 53% of the vote. Will she be able to sway enough people to win in 2012? Only time will tell.
That is the question isn’t it. As of right now I don’t think based on those I know that she has the centrist appeal. That could very well change over the course of a long campaign as more and more people are able to get to know her.