The republicans have hated Hillary for 16 years. Bill Clinton's

[Road Scholar]

economics and foreign policy made idiots of them all.They've been trained to hate her and Bill. That's just what they do. It's their favorite pastime, that and try to ridicule them for everything to save face. They would pay good money to vote against her.That was going to be their big plan.Help Hillary win then kick her butt in the general election. They would rather vote against her than vote FOR McCain. She would have lost the election hands down.

[DJ13]

1. The Republicans hated the Clintons for taking their platform and getting them passed

NAFTA

WTO China

Welfare reform

Telecom deregulation

Banking deregulation

MFN for China

The list is long (and more than I posted), but the point is that every single one of those issues were part of various Republican platforms from Regan forward up until Clinton won in 1992.