Why do these people have such hatred of Hillary?

[Archae]

Remember LiestotheMax, I mean NewsMax, and their big lie about Hillary Clinton and the Goldstar Mothers?
You'd think they would have learned from that fiasco.

Nope.

They screw it up again in their frothing hatred of anyone Clinton.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/chowdown.asp

[Rooktoven]

1. I call this "Hilary Clinton Syndrome"

It shows up mostly in rural or middle-aged men-- the fear of a women smarter than one's self.

[laidbackkid]

7. Hillary Haters

Her cattle futures coup really drives them up the wall.

They just can't believe that a young women with no experience in futures trading can beat them at their own game! Not many people can take a $1,000 and run it to $100,000 and than just walk away. She really knows how to "hold'em, to throw'em, and to walk away".

[Lindacooks]

2. That's because

they are impotent, and hate strong women, along with anybody else who's doing the right thing. Their tiny, evil minds just about shrivel up at the thought of anybody but their limp little selves having power.

[David__77]

3. Here's what I wrote about this to a friend in 2000...

Sent : Friday, September 22, 2000 5:04 PM
Subject : Hillary, and Another Issue

I hope that Hillary Clinton gets elected to the U.S. Senate in November. She will serve a purpose in helping to transform the political landscape.

Why is there a "Get Hillary" crowd?

Since she was the wife of Governor Clinton in 1978, then the nation's youngest governor, she has provoked ire not merely from the far right, but from upholders of traditional values generally, even among her own party. They dislike her insistence on keeping the "Rodham" in "Hillary Rodham Clinton," and her ability to more than hold her own on the public stage. She is a figure in her own right, and aggressively so. Remember, when a man does this, he is dynamic, when a woman does this, she is a witch to be burned at the stake.

Hillary represents the positive aspects of Bill Clinton's presidency, particularly his opposition to and struggle against the GOP Conservative Revolutionaries. She spoke correctly, and surprisingly so, when she told of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy" against Bill Clinton, during the height of the GOP drive to destroy the executive branch. It was Hillary that provided the political ammunition to the defeat this coup d'etat.

It will take strong, outspoken personalities like Hillary Clinton, to prevent the Democratic Party from becoming even more a tool of the elites than it has been, betraying its past role of the FDR tradition.

[Deja Q]

13. When did Mr. Clinton not oppose the right wing?

Pardon my ignorance, but DOMA, DMCA, NAFTA, 1995 welfare reform leaving "corporate welfare" untouched, firing Jocelyn Elders for also having too much of a mind and having the nerve to speak it... there are others. Bill was a centrist, but Hillary is 100% spot-on about the right wing conspiracy.

[scottcsmith]

4. Scared of a smart, independent woman

Right-wingers aren't used to a woman who is smart and independent. Hillary is a threat to them because she's an equal. She knows how to play the game of politics and does it well.

I said this in a different forum, but I think a Clinton/Braun ticket for 2008 would be great! Two strong, independent, intelligent women running together.

[zbdent]

5. My theory on what happened - Bush did his brunch, and a soldier

wrote about it, saying that he got bumped.

Now, we can't have the truth running around, so what the freepin' idjits had to do was twist it to say that it was Hillary, not their boy hero.

The one about Bush is verifiable. The one about Hillary has no named resources at all.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Because they've been told to hate her by the Corporate Media...

...and by the neocons on radio and TV. There is no reason to dislike Hillary Clinton. None. She was an excellent first lady, an excellent wife and mother, she's an excellent senator, she is selfless (as her trip to the war zones during Thanksgiving showed), she is someone to be proud of as a representative of the United States to the world.

No reasonable person could find a valid reason to dislike her, unless they're stupid and let others tell them what to think - like Republicans!

[MrSlayer]

8. Passed by Rush on the radio one day

and he was talking about how Hillary cuts the testicles off of men. Not sure of the context but this was something he kept repeating. Had to turn it off when some prude called in to admonish him for using tasteless words like testicle. LOL. I think it's what other's have already mentioned, the old boy network doesn't like an "uppity" woman rising above her station.

[sendero]

12. how long.....

... since Rush had any use for his testicles?

Someone give him some neuticles.

[elfin]

9. Because she may be Pres. someday and they will find out

what "Payback" means.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. There is the anti-feminism side to the hate, but there is a direction

from which most of it comes. Hillary's time as Staff Attorney for the House Judiciary Committee which was during the wind up to impeachment of Nixon.
I know of some Cons who say they are reminded of her role by political types when the hate seems to waver.
Of course, I don't know whether to believe them or not, but there it is.

[RobinA]

11. Men Who Don't Like

uppity wimmin don't like Hillary. Also her name is "Clinton," as in "Bill Clinton." Also they've been told to hate her. My favorite is when they start talkin' 'bout her secret plans to slide into the White House. They talk about how she's been planning it all along. Like, duh. No guy ever planned to run for President? Guys just wake up one day, leap out of bed, and say, "Gee, I think I'll run for president today?" That's her big crime, being "ambitious."

[sendero]

14. I'm not sure of the exact reason...

... but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with fear and hate. The only two things that drive Republicans.

Fear Dean. Fear Clark. Fear Kerry. Fear Hillary. Fear Democrats, because we have had it with your sorry, immoral asses, one and all.

[aQuArius]

15. Funny, I was just thinkin' the same thing today...

Long story ;)

[INTELBYTES]

16. I've heard quite a bit on wing-nut radio...

and I'm not to sure that I discredit this theory, but there is the notion out there that Hillary is trying to thwart the Democratic candidate from winning the G.E. in 2004 because it would make her run in 2008. It would be that much more difficult if she had to face an incumbent Democrat then. I'd like to believe that is not the case, I don't have any specific actions to indicate it is true, but I'm watching with interest all the same.
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