Posted on 07/08/2007 3:49:20 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
The most appealing thing about Hillary Rodham Clinton has always been her enemies, who often seem not in their right mind, screaming that she is a murderer and calling her names like "Her Thighness." They make you want to like her.
Yet in interviews across the country with women of all ages, races, income brackets and points of view, one of the rare patches of common ground was skepticism about the first female presidential contender with a serious shot at the White House. Over 18 months, I traveled to 20 states listening to women speak at length about what they care about and what drives them crazy as they look toward the presidential election in '08. I ought to like her, many of the strongest Democrats among them said. But on no other matter did left, right and center converge as on the view best summed up as "Anybody but Hillary' – to the point that I began to dread the mention of her name, because it meant we would probably not get around to talking about anything else that day.
All of which runs contrary to the accepted narrative of this election cycle, which is that it is women who are leading the charge for Mrs. Clinton's candidacy. Polling, which at this point still mainly measures name ID, certainly shows a far more mixed picture for Mrs. Clinton where female voters are concerned; 51 percent of those who participated in a recent Washington Post-ABC News survey said they support her for the Democratic nomination.
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Q: Why are women more skeptical of Hillary than men?
A: Because women are much better at spotting phonies and disengenuous people than men are.
We all know it.
She is authentic. Authentically creepy. Authentically criminal. Authentically evil.
Ooooh, sexism is a bad thing in everybody else, but we have to support our girl because she represents all of us with sweater decorations and then feel guilty when the reality trumps the wishes.
Sheesh.
Perhaps this means that more women are now able to identify a phony the way more men were able to identify her husband as a phony.
I guess only men can be sexist.
” listening to women speak at length “
Larry the Cable Guy says, “That’s your problem, right there. Women should be obscene and not heard.”
Forgive me Jesus, and all the little queers in dance class.
Why on earth would women feel guilty about not voting for Hillary? As a mother of two daughters, I’d have to say Hillary is the antithesis of a female role model. I’d feel guilty telling my daughters that Hillary was the best female we could come up with.
It just goes on.
Why in the heck do you "like the idea of Clinton" if YOU CAN'T FREAKIN' TRUST HER???
And why in the heck do you FELL GUILTY ABOUT IT?
Have I stepped into an alternate universe here???
She's a screeching, hectoring, holier-than-thou, Marxist Marie Antoinette.
I don't give a flip that's she's ugly and fat. I know plenty of ugly, fat people who are kind, honest, and humble, but hardworking and reliable. Sort of folks you can count on in a jam -- and you don't even notice they're homely or chubby, because their goodness illuminates them from inside and makes them beautiful. It wouldn't make any difference if Hillary had features like Catherine Deneuve -- her inner ugliness would distort and smear them.
*my mother-in-law excepted, she's nice. I think maybe it's every woman's idea of the wicked mother-in-law of legend.
Looks pretty obscene to me.
Well, duh. Let's try to be a little discriminating, please, and drop the guilt trips.
Not in my life time they've not been.......
Yes, she does. Now if she’ll just work on the ‘not heard’ part, it’d be a good thing.
Women are certainly harder on other women than they are on men...
Hillary’s a female? Whodathunk?
Naah. She’s a female. She just isn’t a lady.
This could not have been explained better. Thanks.
I find it hard to believe that women in this country would take any pride in that marxist sow being the 1st female President.
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