It’s not difficult to feel sympathico with Hillary Clinton, when you read the nonsense wingnuts write about her. The poor woman must be fed up to the eyeballs with the stories about her hubbie’s escapades, the demands to show she’s feminine enough to bake cookies, the accusations about how she did away with her cat, the lesbian accusations yadda yadda. Any Democrat gets something of the same treatment of course, but the wingers seem to have a particular hatred for Hilary, for reasons I still don’t fully understand. They are just driven mad (well, more mad) whenever they notice her.
But don’t cry too much for Hillary. In a perverse way, this insane hatred of her is helping her. For while it keeps the rage of the dedicated wingnut stoked, this sort of story, especially when written by a slavering Republican stooge, only gets her more sympathy from normal voters. Remember how popular both Clintons were during the Lewinsky affair?
At the same time, because the story is about Hilary’s cleavage, or her laugh, her policies and ideology go largely unexamined, at least in the mainstream media. Which explains how she can be presented to the public as the uberliberal, when in fact she’s the most rightwing of the main Democratic presidential candidates. So while these idiotic stories may hurt her personally, they also help her politically….