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RUSH: I have a fascinating story here by Melinda Henneberger. Now, Melinda Henneberger used to write for Newsweek. She\u2019s now at Slate.com, does columns and so forth. She has a story in the Dallas Morning News from Sunday, a column, actually: ‘More women feeling skeptical about Clinton\u2019s authenticity – though they wish they weren\u2019t.\u2019 The gals are conflicted out there about Hillary. They really don\u2019t like her, but it\u2019s just not right to say so or to think so. Let me read you some excerpts of this. ‘The most appealing thing about Hillary Rodham Clinton has always been her enemies, who often seem not in their right mind, screaming that she is a murderer and calling her names like ‘Her Thighness.\u2019 They make you want to like her. Yet in…\u2019 Have you ever heard of that, Her Thighness? I\u2019ve never heard of that term for Hillary, and I don\u2019t know who\u2019s accusing her of murdering anybody. Anyway… ‘Yet in interviews across the country with women of all ages, races, income brackets and points of view, one of the rare patches of common ground was skepticism about the first female presidential contender with a serious shot at the White House. <\/p>\n

‘Over 18 months, I traveled to 20 states listening to women speak at length about what they care about and what drives them crazy as they look toward the presidential election in \u201908. I ought to like her, many of the strongest Democrats among them said. But on no other matter did left, right and center converge as on the view best summed up as ‘Anybody but Hillary\u2019 — to the point that I began to dread the mention of her name, because it meant we would probably not get around to talking about anything else that day. All of which runs contrary to the accepted narrative of this election cycle, which is that it is women who are leading the charge for Mrs. Clinton\u2019s candidacy. Polling, which at this point still mainly measures name ID, certainly shows a far more mixed picture for Mrs. Clinton where female voters are concerned…\u2019 This is no mystery. Look at the female candidate in France, S&eacute;gol&egrave;ne. It\u2019s not an automatic. This is one of these characterizations. The Drive-By Media always thinks that women are monolithic and that they\u2019re all feminist-related and feminist-oriented. It\u2019s like I was saying last week, the funniest thing I\u2019ve seen in a long time was that feature on C-SPAN with 20 women in the audience. <\/p>\n

The head of Planned Parenthood was conducting the seminar for 20 people. The history of the women\u2019s movement. How is something like covered? Twenty people! Yet the C-SPAN cameras were there as though this was representative of female group thought. If I were a woman, this whole notion that you all think alike and you\u2019re all going to support a candidate just because she\u2019s a woman, that\u2019s a myth. That\u2019s something the Drive-Bys hope for. That\u2019s something the Democrats hope for but they look at everybody as sheep without minds of their own. If Mrs. Clinton ‘won the nomination, however, polls also suggest she\u2019d have trouble winning over the independent female voters any Democrat needs to win the presidency. … The open-ended interviews I did were just the opposite of a poll &ndash; I asked very few specific questions, in sessions that typically went on for hours &ndash; so the ‘no\u2019 vote was almost certainly over-represented. ‘Yet the least that can be said is that Mrs. Clinton\u2019s negatives are both deep and diffuse. And I\u2019m not sure if polling can be expected to capture the guilt that many women expressed over their lack of enthusiasm for her.\u2019 Oh, no. We have tapped into something new, a new malady in America: White Gal Guilt. Oh, no! It\u2019s the guilt of white women who feel guilty because they don\u2019t want to support Hillary. Forget why. Reasons will be abundant. <\/p>\n

‘At this point,\u2019 writes Henneberger, ‘it would be hard to say whether it is conservatives or liberals\u2019 who mind her more. She then quotes a Washington Post story on the great strides she\u2019s supposedly made with opponents of the war. ‘It can\u2019t be a good sign of her candidacy, though, some of these modest…\u2019 Oh. Let me read this. This is key. It\u2019s the Washington Post story. ”Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew only modest boos at a gathering of liberal activists yesterday, a sign of how well her changing position on Iraq is playing in the anti-war wing of her party.” Now, how absurd! She got booed but it was not as often as the previous time so it\u2019s a sign of success, and how well her changing position on Iraq is playing. ‘It can\u2019t be a good sign,\u2019 writes Ms. Henneberger, ‘for her candidacy, though, that some of these ‘modest boos\u2019 are coming from women who ought to be among her biggest fans:\u2019 Why? Why should women automatically be among Hillary\u2019s biggest fans? Why? ”If I don\u2019t know the person, I always vote for the woman\u2019 in any given race, says Paula Hughes, a Boston Democrat whose three over-the-moon-for-Obama daughters, ages 16, 20 and 22, helped convince her to support him.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s a woman who always votes for the woman, who\u2019s going to vote for Obama. ”Hillary\u2019s stands on the war I find troubling, and as much as I love the idea of Clinton squared, I can\u2019t trust her &ndash; even though I don\u2019t like myself for that.” My God! Women are wringing their hands over their White Gal Guilt over not liking Hillary. ”What turns me off about Hillary is, I don\u2019t feel the realness from her,\u2019 is how Kristen Aston, a thirtysomething real estate agent in Florida, put it. For the record, I heard very few complaints about Mrs. Clinton\u2019s decision to stay in her marriage. To the extent that her husband is a factor, he seems to be an asset; many women, centrists in particular, said they wished they could vote for him a third time. Nor did gender seem to be an obstacle &ndash; as on the contrary, women across the political spectrum declared themselves beyond ready for a woman in the White House. Instead, it was the issue of authenticity that they returned to again and again,\u2019 with Mrs. Clinton. But I think the golden nugget in that last paragraph is, ‘Clinton seems to be an asset. Many women said they wished they could vote for him a third time,\u2019 and she\u2019s going to get a lot of votes because of that. She\u2019s going to get a lot of votes from a lot of people — men, women, doesn\u2019t matter — who simply going to salivate over the fact that Slick Willie is back in the White House again. That\u2019ll will be enough, folks. It will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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