Why do the repugs HATE I mean HATE Hillary?

[southernleftylady]

Ive never seen HATE like I have when you just mention her name...
why ?
My first election to vote in was his second term so I was pretty young when all that mess was going on so maybe I missed something..
because she stood by her cheating hubby? or she wanted health care for everyone?
please help me understand

[Captain Hilts]

1. My R uncle gets in a lather at just the mention of her name and peppers me e-mail about her.

[gaspee]

2. It's irrational

But their use of "castrating" ballbuster" and other slurs of that ilk go a long way toward explaining it.

[rox63]

3. I personally know several Dems who also can't stand her n/t

[jody]

4. Same reason some DUers HATE I mean HATE Hillary. She's a smart, competent leader. n/t

[southernleftylady]

9. Ok what are those du's reasons? nt

[jody]

18. Why ask me, ask them! n/t

[TwilightZone]

24. If you ask them, they'll tell you that they don't hate her.

It's "all about policy."

Yeah, right.

[jody]

25. Hillary will make a wonderful president. n/t

[DURHAM D]

5. Like Bill Maher said last night -

If you hate Hillary (because there is absolutely nothing to hate about her) it is about you.

Another way to put it - for the haters of Hillary it is just a projection onto her of their own internalized self-hate.

[TreasonousBastard]

27. I like that. n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. She is a bossy woman who is smarter than they are, and she hates them

[DURHAM D]

11. She doesn't hate them - she tolerates them.

You don't strike me as someone who would suffer fools well. Should she???

[Sparkle]

7. The only explanation is they hate what they fear. n/t

[no name no slogan]

8. familiarity breeds contempt

Same goes with Bill. Both have essentially co-opted the policies and positions of the former Rockefeller wing of the Republican party. The Repubs are jealous that the Clintons stole their platform and got elected instead of them. Running down that yellow stripe in the middle of the road pays off.

[TwilightGardener]

10. She ain't my favorite. I don't HATE her, and I've defended her on this

board on many occasions, but all the same, I'd rather have another Dem as President.

[Sparkle]

17. The OP was asking about Repugs, you said you don't hate her.

You must hate her since you felt the need to reply about hating Hillary. :)

[TwilightGardener]

20. Just pointing out that there are Dems who aren't fond of her either...

:-)

[Lucinda]

12. I don't know a single Rep ( and I know many ) who can tell me WHY

I don't think THEY know. I think Rush (and his contemporaries) have a lot to do with it.

[denem]

19. She is a class traitor.

that;s why they started it.

[MethuenProgressive]

13. They've been conditioned to hate her by hearing over a decade of GOP propanganda.

The GOP's propaganda machine has been so successful that even Democrats hate her.

[PeaceNikki]

14. Because women ought know their place.

:eyes:

[old guy]

23. This is what I think also.

I have asked several people why they hate her and have received no real answer. Other than they don't think women should be in a position of power. I don't think they know either.

[dkf]

15. Well I greatly dislike her because I think she plays dirty

witness the latest tactic to disenfranchise Hotel workers in Nevada.

She gets her people to inject race into the equation.

She tries to rally women specifically by pointing to the "boys club".

Yuck.

I want a candidate who appeals to all of us out of our common humanity...who rises above race and gender.

And this is from observing her from our side. I didn't really follow politics during Bill's candidacy but if they used these same tactics against the Repubs then I can thoroughly understand where they are coming from.

[denem]

16. Hillary enabled Bill Clinton to become President.

There;s nothing the RW hates more than a class traitor. Thats what it's all about. The outrage that GHWB didn't get his golden two terms, but these usurpers did. Bill has a thick hide, they went after vulnerable of the two, vulnerable if only because she was taking a non-conventional place in the White House.

The hate machine revved up and stayed up. It's fun to hate, if that's your thing.

[Historic NY]

21. I have a Repuke friend who gets in a foaming lather over her........

you would think he had rabies. I tell him its Un-Christian-like and that drives him even further over the edge. He rants about Judicial Watch this and that, and all the other RW crap of no substance. I think its a Republican hobby to hate the Clintons, they really do not have a reason if its about sex well their party certainly has done nothing to restore dignity to the government ie: toe tapping, boy intern sex, whores, male prostitures etc etc .etc. etc. Who else can they hate but themselves.

[Yael]

22. I keep hearing that she is a "liberal" and the "most liberal of the democrats"

I don't think they even know what they are talking about any more. One thing is certain. She has been vetted and people have already made up their minds about her on the right. VERY slim chance that they are going to give her a neutral second look.

[jody]

32. On the other hand she could be the most conservative of the Dem candidates. The problem every

president faces is the awesome unilateral responsibility of commanding a military force that could destroy any country with a single command.

It's sometimes difficult to listen with an attentive ear and smile to inane questions when one has absolute authority over the life/death of so many. Hillary certainly learned that lesson from Bill and knows that responsibility will be hers when she is president.

[Jim__]

26. It's a conditioned reflex.

In the late 90's the top propagandists in the republican party wanted to see if they could get their minions to react viscerally to a neutral image. The results speak for themselves.

[jasmine621]

28. I would say that it is not only the RW "hate" her, many Dems,

some here at DU, have that same irrational emotion about HC. And it does say more about "them" than "her."

[fightindonkey]

29. Obama Gets MORE HATE on FreekRepubic Now

They call him a bigger Marxist than Hillary. lmao.

[Bitwit1234]

30. Seems like the hate is unreasonable in other places also..

some people can't stand for a woman to be in charge.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

31. Here in Arkansas, sometimes it is personal experience

I have a friend who asked Mrs. Clinton for help on a project and was rebuffed. The friend assumed it was because he was Republican. Anyway, according to him, she was rather rude to him.

[NastyRiffraff]

33. You don't have to go to the GOP...

...to encounter hatred of Hillary Clinton. Just look around here on DU, and in the media.

It's irrational, and goes way beyond policy differences.

[ileus]

34. because only a Clinton can give us 50 states in 2008, and they know it.

[Reciprocity]

35. But they love Obama. n/t