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Hillary's presidential remake leaves the Clinton heartland cold
The Age ^ | January 14, 2006 | Anne Summers

Posted on 01/14/2006 4:29:15 AM PST by yoe

Although it is still more than two years before the main parties in the United States decide on their candidates for the 2008 presidential election, it is widely assumed that the Democratic Party candidate will be the junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton.

You might expect the political conversation among Democrats to be along the lines of "is Hillary electable" (given the preponderance of red states on the American political map) but as I discovered during a recent visit to the US, many in her natural base have already washed their hands of her.

[snip] At a dinner party in New York last week with a group that included writers, lawyers, a former senior staff member for the Clinton administration and a columnist for The New York Times, the hatred of Hillary Clinton was unconcealed. It was articulated with the passion of people scorned. Clinton has not just disappointed, she has betrayed them. I might have been more surprised at the way these Upper West Side liberals were slagging off at someone many of them would once have seen as a political ally, if not a personal friend, had it not been for a pretty savage piece in that week's New York magazine.

[snip] A far bigger complaint is not about her personality, but her politics. In recent months, Clinton has cosied up to the leading members of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" she once excoriated for trying to bring down her husband. (That was before she knew the truth about Monica Lewinsky.) Former House speaker Newt Gingrich torpedoed the "Hillarycare" health insurance plan in 1994 but that hasn't stopped her making recent common cause with him - on the need to reform health care......

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillary2008
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1 posted on 01/14/2006 4:29:17 AM PST by yoe
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2 posted on 01/14/2006 4:32:39 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: yoe

if she got her own cigar treatment, she might get happier


3 posted on 01/14/2006 4:34:36 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: yoe
Do not worry,when she needs to,she will join the yammering minions on the looney left and they will welcome her with open arms.

Then with a knowing wink of the eye to them she will attend a military event and exclaim her gratitude for the job the troops have done.

4 posted on 01/14/2006 4:34:43 AM PST by carlr
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To: yoe

Sure they'll trash her, until she's on the ticket opposite a Republican. Then suddenly she's lesser of two evils.


5 posted on 01/14/2006 4:34:48 AM PST by squidly
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To: yoe

Scorn for Hillary and for all the wrong reasons. . .


6 posted on 01/14/2006 4:34:49 AM PST by cricket
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To: squidly; yoe

Precisely.

So long as Hillary retains solid minority support (and Blacks remember the 90's as the best of times) the white liberals will grumble but fall in line.


7 posted on 01/14/2006 4:41:25 AM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: sure_fine
..if she got her own cigar treatment, she might get happier

..or even, just a cigarette....just one cigarette after sex, but w/ whom? :D

8 posted on 01/14/2006 4:41:29 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: yoe
Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire.

The difference is that while most in the blue bits will probably hold their noses and vote for her, most of the folks in the red bits never will. And without them, she is toast.

Run, Hillie, run.

9 posted on 01/14/2006 4:45:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: yoe

I do hope that we will never forget the "Clinton Rule of Politics", that being they will say and do anything to get elected. If the polls showed most American voters wanted to have a pet toad, who would be out front saying the government must provide one for every American child, and the poor amongst us must have one for free? Hillary would be leading the pack, you can count on it.


10 posted on 01/14/2006 4:45:52 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: yoe
I don't believe this for a minute.

Members of the communist movement in the US know HRC belongs to them, body and soul. Her current makeover involves getting much further away from them than is credible, or even plausible.

Stories like this will keep appearing. She will rebuke Michael Moore. Some gay activists will dissolve in tears of rage. There will be demonstrations. She will carry a Bible.

To quote one of the formative influences on her career, she will get power "by any means necessary".

Just wait and see who shows up on Inauguration Day.

11 posted on 01/14/2006 4:49:06 AM PST by Jim Noble (Fiat justitia, ruat coelum)
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To: Old Sarge

Bookmark. (... and that's an awesome photoshop...!) :)


12 posted on 01/14/2006 4:58:52 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: Jim Noble

She has t PAY all the Media to print the Politically

Correct thing !!


13 posted on 01/14/2006 4:59:49 AM PST by Zenith
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; pookie18

I take no credit - I saw it on one of Pookie's threads.


14 posted on 01/14/2006 5:01:20 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: yoe

We must not become complacent. She still has a lot of power.


15 posted on 01/14/2006 5:01:58 AM PST by Bigg Red (Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: mewzilla

This Author should repeat after me "it is easy to fool a NY Liberal into voting for Hillary, REDNECKS are much smarter, they won't fall for the Witch's lies"!


16 posted on 01/14/2006 5:02:51 AM PST by grannylinedancer
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To: yoe

<< ... before she knew the truth about [The whoreMonica] ... >>

What a bunch of crap.

Mrs Blythe effectively pimped Lewinsky - and the scores of others.


17 posted on 01/14/2006 5:03:26 AM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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To: grannylinedancer
Well, I know some Dems who won't be voting for her, either :) I hope she does run. The American body politic could stand a good exorcism.
18 posted on 01/14/2006 5:04:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Old Sarge
I take no credit - I saw it on one of Pookie18's threads.

Then take credit for posting it. Another FReeper pointed me to it originally.


19 posted on 01/14/2006 5:07:32 AM PST by pookie18 ((Hillary Rotten) Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: Jim Noble; Carl/NewsMax; All

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DIANE "HILLIARY" RODHAM

was actively on the side of

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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

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20 posted on 01/14/2006 5:09:57 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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