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In reply to the discussion: Hillary "We came, we saw, he died" (yes, smiling gleefully) [View all]tblue37
(65,483 posts)centrism, but when Edwards crashed and burned I was overwhelmingly relieved that he wasn't our candidate after all.
The optics problem with Hillary, I think, is that she lacks Bill's smoothness when "onstage," so she tries too hard to be the backslapping good ole girl, and she just isn't good at it. Apparently she is compassionate, charming, and funny around people she is familiar with, which is why she inspires such loyalty**, but she is awkward and evidently trying to hard when on camera.
The policy and principle problem with her is that the Clintons' triangulation strategy simply doesn't wash any longer with voters. They want candidates who stand on principle, and they even reward those who stand on destructive, disastrous principle (i.e., the entire Teapublican slate).
The Democratic Party as a whole is too easily stampeded--to the right.
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**For example, after leaving the Clinton administration, George Stephanopoulos once told an interviwer that he would walk on coals for Hiillary[/].