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From: LindyBill3/22/2007 7:56:08 AM
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Who likes Hillary?
BETSY'S PAGE BLOG
Steve Chapman notes that Hillary Clinton has the knack of uniting both liberals and conservatives in dislike of her. That is why the 1984 WebTube ad worked so well. Hillary's face up on the screen as Big Brother indoctrinating the masses seemed, well, apt. And there are those on the left and those on the right who felt a flash of recognition when they viewed the ad because it fits their views of Hillary Clinton.

"Though the ad included a plug for Barack Obama (who denies any involvement), it would draw equal ovations if it were shown at a meeting of MoveOn.org or The Heritage Foundation. Which raises the question: If the right regards her as a dangerous leftist and the left regards her as an unprincipled accomplice in the Iraq disaster, who really likes her?

It's not as though she warms the hearts of moderates everywhere. Her husband was a master of triangulating between the two poles. But Hillary's efforts to place herself in the sensible center suggest naked opportunism, not hardheaded practicality.

The candidate we all know is the one portrayed by Amy Poehler in the "Saturday Night Live" skit who, when asked about her original position on Iraq, replied with a condescending smile, "I think most Democrats know me. They understand that my support for the war was always insincere."

Any candidate can suffer reputational damage during the course of a bitterly fought election. But Hillary rouses an exceptional amount of dislike even before we've been reminded of her flaws.

In a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, only 19 percent of those surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of Barack Obama. Even the abrasive Rudolph Giuliani had only a 22 percent unfavorable score. But 40 percent had an unfavorable opinion of her.

A December poll found 47 percent of Americans would not even consider voting for Hillary. Karlyn Bowman, a polling expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and author of a forthcoming report on attitudes about Hillary, says she can't remember a major party presidential candidate whose negative rating was so high at the start of a campaign."

So who does like her? I know that there are some out there who still think she's just so very smart and capable and like her for being the female candidate. There are others who just long for the good ol' days of Bill Clinton. But the yearning out there for Obama or Al Gore is a strong indication that there are many out there who love the image of the blonde runner hurling that hammer at Hillary's giant screen image.

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