Why Don’t They Like Hillary?
Back in 2007 Bill O’Reilly asked his listeners why they didn’t like Hillary Clinton, he came to the conclusion that there were three main reasons.
- A lot of women think she compromised by making a pact with Bill to dismiss his marital faithlessness, if he would help her in politics.
- A lot of men dislike her political ideology
- Other people think she is aloof and manipulative
Some liberal women don’t like Hillary Clinton because she knows how and does play the big boys game. But then how is she supposed to succeed in politics if she doesn’t? They think she rose to the top with her husbands help and dismiss her own record of achievement.
Some Democrats dislike her for her vote on the Iraq war and they disapprove of her shifting her political ideology to the center.
Conservatives dislike her too because they say she doesn’t relate to the needs and views of mainstream America. Social conservatives say she undermines family values and some people think she dismantled the icon of what the American woman stands for and should be and act like. Some people probably dislike her because an ambitious woman that is brainy messes with their idea of womanhood.
The political analysis of Thomas Schaller of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the BNET article ‘Conservatives Can’t Stand Hillary’ is ‘A lot of people have a certain issue with strong, accomplished women.” (Dessert News (Salt Lake City), August 13, 2006, John Machacek’Garnett News Service.) Schaller explains that though usually ambition is admired that it is many times reserve for males; he says it is a gender problem.
Some people didn’t like her comment about fulfilling her profession as opposed to being at home baking and having teatime. They think it insulted women that stay home. And the not staying at home standing by her man remark galled many and the fury arose against her. People that don’t like Hillary tend to say that various scandals haven’t been cleared up like commodities trading and not releasing tax returns.
She struggled with a big disapproval rating during the presidential campaign; the night before the presidential primary it was 48%. It rose beyond any disapproval rating for anyone that more recently won the Democratic parties nomination.
Out of 900 registered voters across the nation in a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll conducted between 3/31 and 4/1 of 2009 23% disapprove of the way she is doing her job as secretary of State. The CNN Opinion Research Poll found that again 23% of 1,019 of adults in the U.S. disapprove of her performance as Secretary of State.
According to the Harris Interactive Poll of 2007 a lot of people 52% think Hillary can’t link with people in a personal way. In a breakdown of this percentage 53 % of espoused women, males 56%, matures 68%, and republicans 73%.
It seems the reasons that people dislike Hillary Clinton range from the personal to the political and that some people would really like to mind her business for her. The old prejudice of accomplished and intelligent women being taboo rides high in the negative reactions to her and people taking comments out of context or maybe too seriously sometimes is another problem she has faced.
Tristan Andrews is a freelance author who writes articles about Politics and Political Games for http://www.political-games.net/