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Related: About this forumThe GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing
By Sam Kleiner December 26th 2013 5:45 AMDesperate to stop a second Clinton presidency in 2016, its a sure bet many in the GOP will reprise the ugly attacks they used on her 22 years ago.
While Hillary Clinton has made clear that she wont decide whether she wants to pursue the presidency in 2016 until next year, Republicans have decided they already are going to make her a top target. Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee Chairman, has promised this month to go after the rough stuff about Clinton in an ad campaign that will be very aggressive. The Republicans are promising a shotgun approach; just shoot out things like the a botched health care roll out in the '90s and Benghazi, and hope something hits.
This isnt the first time that Republicans have tried to nasty attacks against Hillary. That tradition stretches back to 1992, when Republicans decided to go after her with a series of sexist attacks that continued into her husbands administration. As Republicans start to open up attacks against Hillary once again, its worth remembering the sexist overtones in the earliest Republican attacks on Hillary, and how these attacks can backfire on Republicans.
Hillary-bashing became a central theme in the Republican campaign in 1992. No one can convince me that the American people are so blind that they would replace Barbara Bush with Hillary Clinton," Pat Robertson told the Republican convention. This was no ordinary First Lady, she was, as Patrick Buchanan said, a lawyer-spouse who has compared marriage as an institution to slavery. While Hillary had been the stable breadwinner in years when Bill tried to get his political career to take off, Republicans were deeply uncomfortable with the idea of a marriage in which a woman could hold a successful career, especially one that may be on par with that of her husband. Even Barbara Bush, who first resisted the idea of going after Hillary, eventually came around to seeing her as quite different and a fair target.
In that election cycle, Republicans were attracted to portraying Hillarys career as the manifestation of something maniacal about her intentions. In 1992, the right-wing American Spectator characterized Hillary as the Lady MacBeth of Arkansas.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/26/the-last-time-republicans-fought-hillary-they-used-sexism.html
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The GOP's History of Sexist Hillary-Bashing (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2013
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)1. hope Mrs. Clinton drags out the 'I may run' for a couple more years. A great service to America to
provide a political target for the thousands of R bloggers/media arms/ R-"political charities'. keep on providing those bloggers with 'jobs' big R donors
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)2. meanwhile the Clintons Foundation host things that matter to Americans.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)3. "Even Barbara Bush ..."
Babs has always been one of the nastiest persons around. Period. Bad as her husband is, she is worse.
Beacool
(30,249 posts)4. Not too far off from the crap I read around here on a daily basis.