What has Hillary done to be labeled "evil" from the Right?

[doubles]

I am confused as to where this hatred of her comes from. I have never seen a woman despised like this. Hate radio often refers to her as "evil"....

[Skittles]

1. she is a strong woman

that alone is enough to make wingnuts foam at the mouth. They prefer Stepford wives like Pickles.

[dawgman]

6. I was going to say that she's a woman and might oneday be their pres.

ne

[kskiska]

9. Unless she's a Condi Rice

or a Lynne Cheney, or a Mrs. Dole. Just like they don't like celebrities talking politics – unless it's Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Dennis Miller.

[Skittles]

37. Stepford Wife or Bush Whore

take your pick

[HILLARY SUPPORTER]

74. HILLARY VS. CONDI

That would be a great race! Condi would get eaten alive in debates and Hillary would win by a landslide.

[Sophree]

12. She was a woman involved in her husband's admin.

Which means (to them) that she's the one in charge and calling the shots.

I seriously had a certain Southern man tell me, with a straight face(When I asked him why the South seceded, when Lincoln said repeatedly that they could keep their precious slavery and he would have done anything to keep the Union together. Mrs. Lincoln was the abolitionist...) "THAT'S why they seceded- they thought that she would be in charge and would withhold sex if he didn't do what she wanted." SEE- It DOES always come down to sex with them.

Anyway, Southern Conservative men seem to work themselves into a tizzy over strong women. It's not a rational response, it's an extremely irrational, overreaction. I guess it challenges their masculinity or imprinted ideas of sexuality or something. Any psychiatrist out there?

[SharonAnn]

35. And Rush Limbaugh has been saying awful things about her

for years and years. he can do a monologue on her "evil" ways for hours.

Some people are just brainwashed.

[RapidCreek]

43. Rush is just jealous that she has something between her legs

and between her ears that he as always wanted.

RC

[RapidCreek]

42. Indeed

A human being who possesses both a vagina and a brain make conservatives very very angry. I don't much care for her myself....as I feel that she is nothing more than a Bush apologist....which further proves my point. They don't even like women who cover their asses for them. They'll tolerate them if they'll stand behind the conservative good ole boy network...just like they'll tolerate a black whose willing to do the same...in the end however they believe women are good for nothing more than bearing little Rethuglicans.

RC

[Sterling]

2. She helped Bush ruin our country

And kill many innocent people. That is why I think she is evil. I am sure the pukes have different motives though.

[the populist]

10. Agreed. I loathe her as much as I loathe Joe Liarman.

She has supported the war and continues to support the occupation. To top it off she tried to outdo Bush's Thanksgiving visit by visiting Iraq herself. This resulted in it being impossible for the candidates to truly get on the offensive during that period.

I really really hate her.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. Excuse me?

Hate her if you wish, but her visit to Afghanistan and Iraq were planned in advance... You have it backwards, Bush snuck into Iraq to upstage Hillary, not the other way around.

[the populist]

22. Either way.

What was she doing going to Iraq? By going there she legitimized the war and attempted to mythicize the Wehrmacht... err... I mean... the US military.

[Sophree]

24. UM

She's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's part of her JOB. Should be part of any responsible leader's JOB, especially after a war, which is what B*shie must have realized people would start saying. Why is Hillary woman enough to go to Iraq and Commander Bunnypants isn't? Too scared he'll soil his tushie??

[corporatewhore]

63. totally agree with you

[HILLARY SUPPORTER]

75. Hill originally supporting war?

I see nothing wrong with Hillary originally supporting the war. No one knew that it was going to go on like it is today. Back then we had no choice but to support it. I know Hillary DOES NOT support Bush's handling of the war as of late.

[aquart]

3. She was a lawyer working for the Watergate committee, right?

How far from a good, cookie-baking housewife can you get?

Did we mention she earned more than her husband?

[fishguy]

4. It's called negative PR, give her a negative image

[ramapo]

5. Cause she was with Bill

They hated Bill cause he beat them at their own game, fundraising. He let no attack go unanswered. He even stole some of their issues.

Hillary had the nerve to be with Bill plus being a strong, successful person in her own right.

The RW thrives on hate.

[bobbieinok]

13. from what I recall, 'hate Hillary' started before 'hate Bill'

She's an independent woman...

...unfortunately, a lot of men (and women) do NOT believe the 2 concepts 'independent' and 'woman' go together

She was the first woman of the woman's liberation 60s era to get some national power and attention.

At any rate, she was the first that a lot of people 'had' to notice.

The only previous first lady who had any where near a similar role was Eleanor Roosevelt - and wasn't she HATED.

[leetrisck]

7. They hate her because

she exists. PERIOD

[Cleita]

8. She didn't bake cookies?

Honestly, other than occasionally suffering from foot-in-mouth disease, I don't know why they pick on her. I do think it is because she speaks up and sometime out of turn so they think she's not "ladylike". They prefer robo-First Ladies like Laura.

I have other issues with Hillary since she became a Senator as I'm not thrilled with her Senate voting record. But then, she isn't my Senator so she is representing her constituents and not me, so I try not to judge too rashly.

The real reason to me is that the right wingers have to have a scapegoat. A woman is soooo much more pickable than a man.

[IronLionZion]

16. She had a line of cookies

Hillary Rodham Clinton's President's Choice cookies. I doubt she knows how to work an oven though.

[Cleita]

25. I think that was after the cookie scandal.

When she first became First Lady, she was interviewed by I forget who about the fact that she worked while also functioning as the Governor's First Lady in Arkansas and she said something about not baking cookies and serving tea when she was the Governor's wife. Well the way the press slammed her down on this it finally became something of a joke. I didn't know she actually put her name on a line of cookies. Good for her.

But this was the first indication that this woman was going to be demonized every chance the right wing could fling it at her. If Dean becomes President, I wonder what they are going to do to his doctor wife and her medical practice. I feel sorry for what she may have to endure through no fault of her own.

[Sophree]

29. lol, the cookie scandal

It's just so ridiculous!! I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[oasis]

11. She held the line and didn't condemn Bill. The R-wing was denied the act

which would have brought down the Clinton Administration.

Hillary knew what was at stake, an illegal rejection of the 1996 election results.

[Sophree]

14. They hated her before that

Basically ever since Bill took office and she was involved in trying to get health care reform passed.

Basically, you had right wing radio and an anti-health care reform campaign funded by Big Pharma- stirring up right wing hatred and paranoia about ID cards and Big Brother. They demonized both Clintons and I'm pretty sure this is where "Hitlery" came from.

[PassingFair]

38. They think...

that she killed Vince Foster. That she had german gramma legs. That she wore headbands. That she should butt out of politics. They resented her remarks (or were they Bill's) that a vote for Bill was a "twofer". That we were getting two for the price of one. That she said she was no "Tammy Wynette" who would stand by her man (which she certainly proceeded to do). That she was smart and unafraid (initially).
The only women the repukes want to hear from are the ones telling us to stay home(while they fly around the country 24/7) like Dr. (I'm not a real doctor, I just say I'm one on the radio)Laura, whose own mother lay dead for days before anyone knew about it.
I'm no fan of Hilary, if she and Bill had an open marriage, then I think she should have been frank about his "infidelity". If he was cuckolding her, she should have given him the boot. Her "playing mad" was not a good example for my girls.
I basically think Bill's lack of control/zipper problem was a horrible embarrassment for the democratic party. He and Monica "blew-it" and paved the way for * to pretend to some higher degree of morality.

[soothsayer]

15. first, cuz she wanted to be involved in policy (think "healthcare")

when she wasn't &^&%&^$**%$^%$^# elected, as our freeper cousins like to point out. In other words, didn't know her place---as the WH decorator or something.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. Hillary was a Congressional lawyer & drew up Nixons impeachment papers

and was one of the first to testify against him at Watergate trials....and she was a young Republican at the time

then she begame a Civil Rights activist ...and marched and helped MLK and Civil Rigfhts Act...this is reason enough...thew repukes didn't hate Bill...they HATED HILLARY....and tried to get to her through him

[bobbieinok]

28. sorry, your chronology is wrong

Civil Rights....

MLK....I have a dream speech and march on Washington (Aug. 1963)

....Civil Rights Act (1964)

MLK....murdered April 1968

Watergate....

....break-in election 72

....resignation 74

[ElsewheresDaughter]

31. she marched in civil rights movement...and was the congressional lawyer

who drew up and wrote the impeachment papers and one of the first to testify at Nixon's Watergate trial...sorry i didn't have it in order for you

[auburnblu]

66. She used to be a Goldwater Girl I think

I think back in the day she used to be a Goldwater Girl anyway. Damn Goldwater Girl, Wal-Mart board, making money on options. Is she really a Democrat???

[July]

53. Um . . . links?

Disregarding the second part of your message, since it gets the civil rights/MLK chronology wrong, can you back up the "drew up Nixon's impeachment papers and was one of the first to testify against him at Watergate trials"? I have done some googling to find this information, and it's not there (I did not look at any NewsMax or WorldNetDaily links, not deeming them credible.) All I found was that she was a newly-minted lawyer when she became a junior member of the Senate Watergate committee, and that she was assigned to develop procedural rules for impeachment (i.e., how to go about it). That is not the same thing, IMO, as drawing up the charges against Nixon. I saw nothing about her testifying in Watergate trials (which ones, BTW?). If your assertions are true, will you please point us to a (believable) source?

[arewethereyet]

19. the actual answer to your question if you're interested

mostly revolves around a percieved sense that truth has no meaning to her and that anything or anyone who gets in her way is expendable.

Per my right wing brothers.

I just don't like her, too arrogant for my taste. Not that my opinion matters to anyone other than myself.

Anyway, you asked.

[Sophree]

21. Oh yeah

She offed Vince Foster for "what he knew about Whitewater." Right? lol

[arewethereyet]

23. there are many who believe that and far worse than that

they can generally be recognized by their dragging knuckles and vacant stare and the beer can seemingly defying gravity in their hand.

[Sophree]

26. I know

It makes me laugh every time I hear it. Honestly, the impression I get from her is that she's one intelligent lady with political savvy that's been bread from decades of campaigning with and for her husband. Other than that, she's just a regular Mom who loves her family.

[FredScuttle]

20. Because of her close proximity...

to the dreaded Clinton penis (or Clenis, if you like)

Actually, I think they're scared shitless of an intelligent, progressive liberal woman who doesn't cower when the little boys throw rocks at her

[asjr]

27. And the fact that

she knows how to throw those rocks right back.

[Mz Pip]

30. she's married to Bill

Guilt by association. Anything near to Bill is evil incarnate.

MzPip
:dem:

[KayLaw]

41. Hate to use the expression

...but ditto.

[alfredo]

32. As aquart said, she worked on the Watergate committee.

She helped bring Nixon down.

Elephants never forget they say.

[randr]

33. She is the most likely woman to become president within her lifetime.

[VOX]

34. There you go...

Apparently, the RW can't start their spin-cycle soon enough.

[fernandovaz]

49. they are scared of her

[efhmc]

36. She doesn't have the right reproductive organs.

[gill]

39. I honestly think she is too controversial to get elected

[Ganja Ninja]

51. Please Stop with that.

I honestly think that anyone that’s hated by the right the way she is deserves our support. Don’t fall into the trap that if a Democrat is hated by the right we can’t support him or her. What are we supposed to do clone Zel Miller?

[Bandit]

54. Too Controversial ~ And Bush* isn't?

:shrug: Amazing what excuses can be dredged up to justify hatred.

[Adams Wulff]

40. I think it boils down to one thing...

...fear.

[LTR]

44. Clinton spite

How dare Bill Clinton win an election against George Bush!!!

The GOP are just a bunch of whiners.

[Loonman]

45. Freepers have empty lives

Life is hard when you're incredibly stupid.

[OneTwentyoNine]

46. Two things,born a female and married a Clinton...

Now lets see if certain DU'ers can't turn this tread into another Clinton hating spectacle. Shit,no wonder we lose at every turn...

David

[neebob]

47. Because she's a crook and a murderer! Are you new?!

I don't especially care for Mrs. Clinton myself, but my mother - a self-professed dittohead - hates her with a purple passion. Mention her name and this lovely mild-mannered Mormon lady everyone thinks is an angel (seriously - my mother is one of those people most people just automatically like an extra lot) transforms into someone I suspect would enjoy watching some hideous medieval torture. You'd think Hillary Clinton had been personally harassing my mom, stealing from her, and bumping off her friends for years. It's bizarre. I've paid extra attention trying to understand what it is about Hillary that's so horrible, but I just don't see it.

Judging by my mother, I suspect Rush Limbaugh is to blame, but I don't have the stomach to listen to him long enough to know what the talking points are. I have a hard time accepting that my mother is so irrational, and it's not just about Hillary.

[OneTwentyoNine]

48. Yeah,Hillary KILLED Vince Foster!! Your mom got the truth from Pigboy...

Like I've said over and over our biggest enemy is the RW takeover of the media. People will sit in front of TV's or radios and absorb this shit as if it were the truth day in and day out.

So Clinton had a hand in changing rules governing how many stations a single corporation could own. So what...did that rule say that only Republicans could own these stations?? Nah,but we sat on our collective asses not wanting to lower ourselves to the "likes" of a Rush Limbaugh type of media person. Meanwhile the Repigs bought every station in sight and set up their newtwork of hate.

I swear to Koresh,there is some new hate screaming radio personality that shows up on AM radio on a weekly basis. There is no end to this unless we REALLY take back the media like was shouted from the rooftops after the 2000 election debacle. Four years later it still hasn't happened. Sure,we have a few on streaming Internet for what thats worth.

David

[neebob]

64. Okay, the right-wing media whores are despicable

but I have a hard time blaming them over people who are so gullible and incurious that they just swallow everything these idiots say without ever questioning their motives.

Right now I'm marveling at O'Reilly - who, in the course of flipping channels two nights in a row, I have caught saying Howard Dean is upset with him. Last night he showed a clip from one of Dean's speeches with a line that included a phrase like "Rush Limbaugh and O'Reilly and these guys." I can't even remember the point of the statement, but it did not indicate to me that Howard Dean is upset with Bill O'Reilly or that he has more than a vague awareness of the man. But here's O'Reilly again this evening, saying, "Howard Dean is upset with me." And he's looking out for the children and this guy and that guy and the other guy and all the usual bullshit that my mother sucks up like Hoover. It just slays me because she taught me to recognize it for what it is in grade school.

[rman]

50. she's Left. sort of.

-

[59millionmorons]

52. BREATH

Republicans hate strong women.

[lotteandollie]

55. You are looking for specifics? If you promise not to shoot the messenger.

In no particular order:

Becoming involved with politics...Healthcare Reform...Whitewater involvement...replacing the existing travel department staff with friends and supporters...dissappearing/reappearing FBI files with her fingerprints...turning over a quick buck in the commodities market(I think it was commodities)...selling pardons for votes in her Senate race.

[louis-t]

57. Wait a minute, they don't hate her for those things...

let's take them one by one. 'becoming involved with politics', if that were true, there would be no women Repub officeholders. 'Healthcare reform', that failed, why would they hate her for that? 'Whitewater involvement', cryin' out loud, it was over $40,000. And they LOST the money. And Repubs spent 70 mil trying to impeach him. 'replacing travel dept.', by the time this happened, every time a Clinton took a step, it was criticized. 'dissapearing files', first of all, no one has ever claimed that anything was missing or changed in those files when they were returned, and nothing in the files was incriminating. Guilt by innuendo. 'turning over a quick buck' I remember a Repub relative complaining how 'she made $200,000 doing legal work and she doesn't deserve that and what could SHE do that's worth 200k.' That's just sexist. The neocons in power now wouldn't even get out of bed for a mere 200k.

They hate her because she speaks her mind (as does my Repub relative, an aunt), they can't pin anything on her (even Ken Starr said Vince Foster killed himself), they have failed to destroy her husband and her (spent 70mil on a fishing expedition and had to turn it into a sex scandal to impeach, and that failed), she stayed with him (while same Repubs who sat in judgement were running around with mistresses and getting divorces), she gets where she's going by working hard (not by favors from poppy's friends), she sees herself as her husbands equal (doesn't sit right with Repub neanderthals).

So now you know what I think.

[Dulcinea]

56. Some people hate what they fear most.

And the right wingers are terrified of Senator Clinton.

[Virginian]

58. They think she is a lesbian? (Strong woman)

I asked a Republican that same question just last month.
Her answer was that Hillary is a lesbian. Their marriage is a marriage of convenience so that each can get ahead. She went on to add proof by saying look how many lesbians they hired.
I sputtered, "Madeline Allbright is gay?" as, oddly, she was the first woman I thought of from the Clinton administration.

Basically the answer came out to be "She will do anything to get ahead." which I interpret to be "She is a strong woman." I also interpret the lesbian line as, "She is a strong woman," because many strong women are labeled, "Lesbian."

I believe the threat of the label has kept many of us from realizing our full potential and has perpetuated the Stepford Wife model of behavior.

[solinvictus]

59. Corporate ties

I personally dislike her for her deep ties to corporate America (Wally World and Tyson come to mind immediately) and the fact that she's caved on every issue Bush has presented the Senate.

[Ripley]

60. She has a vagina and power.

That must equate evil to a lot of insecure males.

[LeahMira]

61. She is intelligent...

... and not afraid to do something with her intelligence or to let it show. Republicans think that any woman should be obedient to her husband, stay quietly in the background and devote her life to his success and happiness. They love to slam her remark about the "vast right-wing conspiracy" but now that PNAC has been exposed she has been proved to have been right on target, hasn't she? Quite honestly, I prefer a woman who cares about things like health care and children, which are certainly nurturing kinds of things, than a woman who cares about oil and wars like Ms. Rice, who is behaving in anything but a "feminine" sort of way

[Virginian]

62. I don't think they know

I think the innuendo was put out there so as to create mass hate. I don't think anyone really knows why, except it is expected of them.

[auburnblu]

65. Don't know, she used to be on Wal-Mart's board

Once upon a time Hillary was on the Board of Director's of Wal-Mart, TCBY Yogurt too. That along with her winning big on poultry options would make her a capitalist hero to the right I would think.

I remember looking through a Wal-Mart annual report a long time ago and saying what the heck, Hillary is on the board.

I think a lot of Republicans hated her health-care plan.

[Danieljay]

67. duh, she's a woman..

and an intelligent one at that, and a woman of high profile and power. People of low consciousness have a difficult time with that, plain and simple.

[SoCalDem]

68. She is not Barbara or Laura Bush

Remember this !.. Repubes still think that Clinton cheated Poopy Bush out of his second term.. Rush told them so, and he also tells them that Hillary is evil, so they believe it.

[kodi]

69. she was born without a penis, were she a man she'd be called "tough"

the right wing has a difficult time attacking women as they do men, so they use different tactics, one is to castigate females who are tough and call them ...rhymes with witches.

[spanone]

70. Intelligent, strong women don't fit into the christian right lifestyle

Barefoot and pregnant and submissive. Look at Laura Bush. A stepford wife. Now that's a woman. yuk.

[KLA2004]

71. hillary

is a great senator.

[eridani]

72. What I don't get

is why since she is slammed for being a liberal lefty, she just doesn't go ahead and BE one, dammit. You know, single payer health insurance, vote against the war, all that good stuff.

[HILLARY SUPPORTER]

73. They are intimidated by Hillary.... SHE'S STRONG SMART WOMAN!!

They know she will one day be the President! She is really on the ball and very take charge. Their hate is more through fear because they know she's not going away any time soon.

GO HILLARY!!