Hillary's metamorphosis

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[manny613]

"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants."

Who recently blurted that out?

Pat Buchanan? Congressman Tom Tancredo? Nope, it was Hillary Clinton.

[Tolik]

"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants."  

Who recently blurted that out?  

Pat Buchanan? Congressman Tom Tancredo? Nope, it was Hillary Clinton.  

Which Democratic senator has expressed little public remorse in voting for 23 counts to authorize war against Iraq, and has scoffed, "Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade"?  

Yep, Clinton again.  

And who frowned on frequent abortion, hoping that it "does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances"?  

Need I even answer that?...  

.....We can already gauge the success of Hillary Clinton's new odyssey in a variety of ways. For starters, out-of-touch Democrats on the left are already worried how far she will stray.  

But Republicans are even more fidgety that she is not just moving laterally in the views she expresses, but up in the polls as well. Like frozen observers watching a train wreck in progress, conservatives are sweating that a winking Hillary might just get elected and then unveil her true liberal agenda.  

Fewer on the right are now saying that Rudy Giuliani is too liberal a Republican to be the party's presidential nominee; instead many are suggesting he's perhaps the only candidate who can derail her.  

What a strange metamorphosis we are witnessing — a candidate still in the veiled chrysalis stage, whose supporters fear that the eventual new creature may emerge as a centrist butterfly, while detractors are even more convinced that she will turn out to be a liberal moth.

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[OXENinFLA]

VDH talks about Hillary.....

[iowamark]

Yes,
I believe that HRC is anti-abortion.

I also believe that UFO's are alien spacecraft.

I believe that Tom Cruise is heterosexual.

I believe that Al Gore inspired Love Story.

Yes, I believe.

[alwaysconservative]

Exactly. And it strikes me as very interesting that she also slipped and said that she is against "immigrants" (the people), rather than "immigration" (the process). That was pretty boneheaded from someone who is considered by the left as the "smartest woman" in America. (Snort!)

[alwaysconservative]

When all the articulate (and honorable) Democrats, like VDH, Zell Miller, Nat Hentoff, and even Christopher Hitchens denounce this pig wearing lipstick as still a pig (Or, heaven forgive me for planting this visual, that the junior senator from NY has no clothes), you would think that the party bigwigs would listen, but nooooo. . .

That's okay for us, I think. We just have more fodder for poking fun at their presumptiousness!

[kellynla]

Ohhhhhh Mr. President are you listening???

When Queen Leftiva comes out against illegals, ya know the GOP needs to WAKE UP and smell the coffee!

[My2Cents]

"you know"

[My2Cents]

This is her best chance to beat us

Only if the immigration hawks drink her Kool-Aid.

[My2Cents]

I ditto that, and frankly, I'd welcome any Democrat driving a stake through the heart of the Clintons' dynastic dreams.

[tillacum]

you forgot "you know", "like", "Maybe, you know, you will get you know those Pubbie you know..........you get the idea. I always count her "you know"s.

[My2Cents]

When Queen Leftiva comes out against illegals

Why should any of us believe she's sincere?

[kellynla]

"Why should any of us believe she's sincere?"

oh, we shouldn't but GWB looks verrrrrry dumb being on the wrong side of this issue especially when even the 'Toons claim they are against illegals!!!

[My2Cents]

What a strange metamorphosis we are witnessing — a candidate still in the veiled chrysalis stage, whose supporters fear that the eventual new creature may emerge as a centrist butterfly, while detractors are even more convinced that she will turn out to be a liberal moth.

Seriously, when it comes to Hillary, forget all of the "left/right" "liberal/conservative" issues-positioning talk. I mean, who really cares what her positions are on immigration or the war in Iraq. Her positions are irrelevant. What makes this woman dangerous is her arrogant lust for power, and a willingness to crush anyone who stands in her way. Her ego and sociopathology is what makes her odious and provide the reasons for keeping her as far away from the Oval Office as possible.

[onedoug]

Condie.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hillary's new views have nothing to do with whether she believes them. They have to do with the public believing her as she says them convincingly enough for them to think she is one of them. And she will. And they will believe her.

The republicans have to do two things to beat Hillary.

1. Nominate someone likeable. Bob Dole failed the test. Seniority doesn't sell. Likeablity does.

2. Someone who when they talk, convinces people they REALLY believe exactly what they said. Republicans prefer that person to actually believe what they say. Democrats (Clinton and Kerry were great examples here) don't care. The public does. Clinton was such a great liar that people came away believing he really meant it all. Kerry spoke and not even hardened demos believed he really meant it.

best, ampu