its a question in earnest. Now, I was around for the Clinton years, but I was in my early 20's and not all that political. But I remember all the scandals and investigations and all that. But what I DON'T remember is what Hillary did to become public enemy #1 with the repubs. Nor what Bill did. They see them and they see Satan. Now, I like Bill, and Hillary has her merits, though in a much more limited sense than Bill. But they simply aren't extreme enough, in any ways, to be plausible candidates for ANYONE'S satan. I mean, they're radical centrists, triangulators, etc (even though they DO have progressive instincts buried to varying extents).

The only thing I could ever figure out why the repubs dislike some dems, but LOATHE the clintons, is because Bill was such a skilled communicator that he outfoxed them at nearly every turn with the electorate, and stole power from them. Even that's debatable come '94. But then you'd figure they'd hate him more than Hillary, but they really hate her much more. Is is just because she's a woman?

Maybe my memory's a little shoddy and I need reminding. Or maybe it IS all that flimsy.

Not that I want Hillary for president. Among many other sins, she voted for the war. If I could tell that there were no weapons in Iraq, without the extra intelligence the repubs said they had, simply by the way the repubs were ACTING, so could she.