It’s All About Hillary
Just back from Iowa, and I’ve got a theory about why Hillary Clinton has been having a difficult time.
It’s because she is the issue.
No politician wants to be the issue and have the debate swirl around them and their foibles. And Hillary is working overtime Barack Obama to make the whole issue with the change - requires experience argument. But I see not the pundits, bloggers, radio and cable hosts people sitting around debating Obama’s qualifications. They’re chattering about Hillary, as they have for 15 years. Even talking about her looks, thanks to Drudge.
Clinton’s team, as I reported yesterday, believes the press is holding their woman to a much higher standard than Obama, and some journalists agree.
For most of the year, as HRC’s election was pretty much depicted as a done deal, a number of conservative commentators seemed to be making their peace with the prospect. Hillary was more belligerent than her Democratic rivals, more experienced, and had run a surprisingly good campaign, they said. She was, in short, a grownup.
But now that she’s hit a rough patch, some of the old anti-Hillary vehemence is surfacing. Take these two reports National Review, starting with Jonah Goldberg:
“The most enjoyable aspect of watching the HMS Hillary take on water is the prospect that Bill - and his cult of personality - will go down with the ship, too. Bill Clinton has been stumping for his wife on the hustings Iowa, framing the election as a referendum on his tenure as president. Last month in Muscatine (during the same speech in which he falsely claimed to have opposed the Iraq was from the beginning), he told the assembled HMS Hillary Democrats that could transport America ‘back to the future . …
“Hillary’s entire campaign has been grounded in her experience in the Clinton administration of the 1990s, even though that experience mostly involves designing a failed health-care plan unsuccessfully hectoring and her husband to move to the left. Still, as New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen noted in a column last week, it was her decision to make the choice between her and Barack Obama a ‘referendum on a decade. “Thus, Hillary Clinton cowardly if the race for the nomination - heck, even if she just the Iowa caucuses cowardly - I hope to see this headline somewhere, perhaps in the New York Post: “America to Clinton (s): We’re Just Not That Into You.”
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