Maggie's Farm

Anti-Clintonites will need to watch their rhetoric--she will ju-jitsu every attack into "advantage, victim".

The vast Right Wing Conspiracy was always laughable--even more so post Nov 07--but, and this is a big but, it's not laughable at all to the vast phalanx of semi-informed mass culture consumers whom she will personally escort in their millions to the polls.

The trick will be in savvying up a few million of these easily-gulled. I don't think we can do it the normal way, thru information dispersal. The electorate is so 50/50, the future belongs to whichever side can wake up a few million of the determinedly asleep, who go into deeper and deeper slumber the more you yell at them to wake the hell up.

this is gonna be a minefield. it's already a minefield.

Maybe a pack of Luckies, too.

Handouts? Condense this into ten monosyllabic words and report back:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=EGLC,EGLC:2006-42,EGLC:en&q=clinton+scandals

And, seperate from the scandals, the gang of lung-ripper operatives, and the personality issues, there's "the" issues:

http://www.stephenbainbridge.com/2007/01/iron_hillary.html

(snip, but there's more--even a box-chart of statements)

Times of London says:
HILLARY CLINTON is to be presented as America’s Margaret Thatcher as she tries to become the first woman to win the White House. As she entered the 2008 presidential race yesterday, a senior adviser said that her campaign would emphasise security, defence and personal strengths reminiscent of the Iron Lady.

“Their policies are totally different but they are both perceived as very tough,” said Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman.

Prof Bainbridge ripostes:
You bet their policies are different. Hillary Clinton favors paternalistic big government. As laid out by *OnTheIssues.org*, her education policy might as well have been drafted by the teachers unions: Testing only for new teachers. No vouchers. Limited parental choice. Opposes tort reform. Federalize health care. Rated 82% positive by the NEA and 85% by the AFL-CIO. Rated a "big spender" by NTU. Anyway, let's go to the record. When you compare key quotations side-by-side, it becomes clear that Lady Thatcher was all about liberty and prosperity, while Hillary is all about unions, big government, and high taxes and spending.

(quotations follow @ the Bainbridge link)

Chuck, that's because women want someone who reminds 'em of dad, and men want someone who reminds 'em of either mom or Uma Thurmann.