Bad in every way possible
by digby
This piece by Elsbeth Reeve in TNR about the Republican view of Hillary Clinton is spot on. She is, quite simply the embodiment of everything bad in the world. And they hate her so much they've stopped making any sense at all:
Imagine a police sketch artist drawing a picture of Hillary Clinton based only on descriptions from the Republicans at the Fox Business Network debates on Tuesday night. The sketch would be unappealing, obviously, but also weird and contradictory. According to the collective wisdom of the GOP crowd, Clinton is a power-mad monster who is nearly unstoppable, but she’s also weak. She is afraid of debating Republicans, but Republican debates are making her stronger. She is a hard leftist who hasn’t been shaken from her mission to drive America into socialism, but also a flip-flopper who only recently began capitulating to the left. At one point in the undercard debate, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal summed up the theme: “Look, we all agree Hillary Clinton is bad.”
Read the whole article to see how contradictory and hypocritical they are about it. Why if I didn't know better I'd think they aren't entirely rational on the subject. Much as they spent eight years convinced that Barack Obama is a Muslim usurper, I'm going to guess that if she wins they'd have no trouble painting her as a shape-shifting witch. It's a tried and true female archetype.
Keep your black cats inside, folks.
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