Hillary Clinton Shedding Polarizing Image

Minneapolis Star and Tribune ^ | 11/21/04 | Judy Holland

[DrQuinn]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Recent polls show the public's image of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gradually morphing from sharply controversial First Lady to centrist, constituent-minded senator. Although still a polarizing figure, the first-term legislator could use the makeover to position herself for a White House run in 2008. Political strategists say Clinton has impressed Senate colleagues and constituents by working on New York issues while taking moderate or conservative stances on controversies such as the war in Iraq. "A majority feel positive toward her," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "She's being seen as being more effective and sticking to her job. She's managed to shape her role in a way that's more acceptable. She's in a transition."

[UpHereEh]

Don't underestimate the right. They'll come out of the woodwork to nail her, it just takes one O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter or Limbaugh to create a buzz.

[L`enn]

We will know if she is elected. All those groups will be members of the cabinet just like when her cuckold husband was president.

[ppaul]

Speaking to a "church based" newsletter this week in anticipation of the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library, Mrs. Clinton made the following statements...

"I always take time to worship God in as evangelical a way as is feasible, given time and location constraints. As you know, I consider myself an evangelical Christian, really a Christian conservative, if you want to know the truth, so it's nice to be 'home' again in the South, which I really consider my quote-unquote home even though I live in New York most of the time. Well, Washington, D.C., most of the time, actually, but if I'm not there I'm in New York, of course, but always thinking about being here, in the South, my spiritual home, where I shared so many wonderful evangelical . . . moments and . . . events."

[market liberal]

I think it will work because the libs will see her as the only way to get their savior slick willie back in the white house.

[oceanview]

don't underestimate her. she can, and is (to some degree) pulling this off right now.

the 2008 election has already begun.

[Eccl 10:2]

"Travelgate, cattle-futures, the health care dud, and not to mention the white house expense records that will be released in early '05. What a field day."

Well, while you may find it entertaining, I recall that while the Right tried to pin all these (ultimately unproven) scandals on the Clintons, their popularity soared as their critics were portrayed as rumor-mongering losers.

I think trying to resurrect the scandals is a losing strategy.

The winning strategy against her would be to pound home the Conservative agenda for the next four years, and field a credible candidate in 2008 who will promise four more years of the resultant prosperity.

[SengirV]

No one asked me. I've morphed my opinion from a shrew, know-it-all, give me all your money so I can give it to someone who disn't earn it, first lay to that PLUS a carpet bagger.

[ppaul]

See #43

[Aarchaeus]

I can think of nothing more entertaining than watching the critics rip her record apart.

Well, I can think of one thing that might be better. But I don't think I ought to get very detailed here about anything having to do with a rope necktie.

[HomersNose]

She will NOT be elected...mark my words. Anyone that hears her nails-on-chalkboard screech will cover their ears and run. Her cackled laugh and the "ya-knows" will turn people off also...nope, this junior Senator from NY will not make it back into the W.H.

[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

[DoctorMichael]

Oh yea. I can see her as an invited speaker on the next Bill Buckley cruise.

You wish!

[new cruelty]

What a pant load. You can expect more crap like this from the media falling all over themselves to get the word out that hillary has transformed herself.

[oceanview]

already, you have posters on every one of these threads threatening to stay home if any pro-choice Rs are nominated. they would rather lose then elect Giuliani for example. so don't get your hopes up.

[RightField]

Alamo Girl's files will be more than useful in 2008.

[KoRn]

Not in my house......biatch!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Please recall the 1996 and 2002 elections.

[Reactionary]

Gee, Hillary! is sure starting early on the MSM propaganda campaign, isn't she? First, the pantload North Korea story, then the usual follow-up about how suddenly moderate she's become.

It's all lies, of course. She's the same confirmed Marxist idiot she was in college. She's merely hoping to put lipstick on the socialist pig so it will appeal to America.

[Arizona Carolyn]

and we have to be even more organized than this year to cut the head off the snake in '08.

[EagleUSA]

What a pant load. You can expect more crap like this from the media falling all over themselves to get the word out that hillary has transformed herself.
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Yes, we will have to get used to it. Nothing but pure BULL EXCREMENT is going to come out of the "Hillary for C-in-C" crowd...what a farse! This Marxist Democrat is going to shed more skins, change more colors, kiss a frog (how is Bill?), learn to fly, learn how to salute, learn what the various branches of the Armed Services are (Hillary, the Army works the land, the Navy is on the water!), and generate more Bravo Sierra that the fawning media will just be all over --- expect to see her lying face on every front page in the MSM for the next 4 years.....

Ha! Get ready Juliani (that is my guess) -- she will be sooooo easy to beat. The Dems are a lost cause if all they put in front of the American people is a Marxist witch, who is a rejected (for bimbos) has-been who rode to power on her reprobate "husband's" coat tails....

This is actually going to be fun.