Hillary Clinton's Enemies Can't See Straight

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PAUL WALDMAN JANUARY 28, 2014
The blinding hate so many conservatives feel for her could be Clinton's greatest asset in 2016.

Rand Paul, who is weirdly a potentially serious contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, got asked on Meet the Press this past Sunday about a comment his wife had made about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. His answer was revealing, I think, of a mindset Republicans are going to struggle with mightily should Hillary Clinton run for president. I bring this up not because I think Paul's comments are all that important in and of themselves, and not because Republicans are likely to spend a good deal of time talking about Monica Lewinsky come 2016. But there's an impulse when it comes to Hillary Clinton that presents a real danger for Republicans. There are so many things they hate about her and her husband that they barely know where to start. And that hatred could well be their undoing.

If you heard "Rand Paul attacked Hillary Clinton over Monica Lewinsky," you've been slightly misled. First of all, it was David Gregory who brought it up (here's the transcript), and second, you can see in Paul's answer the conflict between his rational brain, which says, "This is not what we should be talking about," and his lizard brain, which says, "Grrr! Clinton!" A couple of times he tries to say that the issue is one for Bill Clinton's "place in history," but he can't stop himself from trying to make the case that Democrats are hypocrites because they criticize Republicans for waging a "war on women," when Bill Clinton had an affair with an intern fifteen years ago.

Even after all this time, and after the Clinton impeachment turned out to be such a disaster for them, so many conservatives still can't wrap their heads around the idea that other Americans don't think about that episode in the same way they do. For them, it's a tale of crime and injustice, the injustice being the fact that Bill Clinton got away with it. It goes right to the heart of what they hated so much about him. It wasn't that they had policy differences with him, though they did. What angered them so much about Bill Clinton was that he was better at politics than they were. He beat them again and again for so many years, and nothing embodies their frustration over those defeats more than the Lewinsky scandal. For god's sake, they cry, the guy was caught diddling a twenty-something intern in the White House, and he still managed to wiggle his way out of it!

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[William769]

1. They can't talk coherently either.

And thats not necessarily directed at conservatives.

[Thinkingabout]

2. If Rand Paul should become a serious contender for president he has managed to open a

Flood gate into his past endeavors he may not want to crow about so much. If Hillary is going to be responsible for what Bill did, then it is time to do a Daddy dump on Rand Paul. There is a lot of garbage which has flowed from Rands lips which makes him a doubtful candidate.

[Progressive dog]

3. Run Hillary run

and I hope the haters choke on their hatred.

[Beacool]

4. Hear, hear!!!

[DinahMoeHum]

5. "Oderint dum metuant" - Let them hate, provided they fear.

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