Uhhh, that's manipulatrix, please.
;)
I agree the Clintons are the Borgias of American politics -- nothing quite like them going back to, I dunno, Martin van Buren and his Albany Regency?
"Dollar Mark" Hanna, maybe.
Maybe there really has never been anything like them in American politics at all.
There was an interesting article in the Houston Chronicle this week about Hillary's appeal among Tejano Democrats of the older generation. (Some of the younger generation have defected to Obama, but it's more erosional than a mass movement.)
She explicitly said, without any irony, exactly what I've always said about the lockstep-voting Tejanos (70% straight-ticket Democrat: and the California contingent is even further left) and their various godfather types and groupies -- familial factions -- viz., that a large part of the Clintons' appeal for Chicanos is that they replicate the corruptions of Latin American politics in America: dynasticism, personalism (personalismo, it's in the poli-sci dictionary down there), dirigisme, and an incredibly destructive tendency to strongman politics and dictatorship, or caudillism as they call it specifically in Latin America politics.
So the Clintons are familiar to Mexican-Americans and evince what Tejanos call "family values", which isn't at all what Republicans mean by that, but instead the behavior cluster of family-based, dynastic Latin politics. (And it really is Latin, easily traceable back to the Roman republic and still vital in southern Italy as well as Iberia.)
It is not for nothing that the Clinton supporters have been called "Clintonistas" for years, just as the supporters of the Perons in Argentina were Peronistas (and still are, who are we kidding?) and their counterparts in Nicaragua were called Somocistas.
The young woman concluded by saying it's a kind of political "branding" -- you know what you get, as it were. Perverse and stupid, but there you are. Direct evidence of cultural contamination of American politics by too-rapid immigration from an alien culture. They themselves have no idea they're poisoning us, but the intellectuals in Mexico City do.
These "too-rapid immigrants from an alien culture" need to be educated as to which party is for abortion and always has been.