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Originally Posted by julia
So this is the result:
Hillary's Approval Rating Plummets In NBC/WSJ Poll
Chuck Todd Msnbc March 26
As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it's not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign.
Moreover, her 37% positive rating is the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001.
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Never a fan of Peggy Noonan,
- author of Reagan's morning in America speech
- Bush 41's "kindler, gentler America"
- and Bush 41's "thousand points of light"
but she really nailed this one. It is painful to acknowledge but at least this doesn't coat another turd with a patina of righteous glory. My how some eat that crappola right up.
I'll still be gentle on her supporters who for one reason or another give her their unconditional love and support. Whether it be the emotional insult of a philandering spouse, stress over their place in an overtly racist/misogynistic society or the thrill every woman must share over one of their own having ascended despite all the crap and roadblocks thrown in their and her path. Even those assessments are cynical so it wouldn't be unfair to think that some simply feel she'd do a better job, buying the experience thing. For that matter any one of these candidates could surprise or shock us for better or for worse.
The things one is willing to overlook or at which one bristles upon being when beckoned to assess rationally...well these things are in some ways more telling of the supporter than the candidate.
The same could be said of any cadidates supporters, I suppose but could any candidates supporters have as much latent dissonance as Hillary's? Does it find its way out in a reasoned tradeoff of means vs. ends? Must they conjure up persecution as justification for their girl going negative?
I'd expect that to find virtue in some recent tactics one must buy into politics being a dirty game and to maintain an innocent self-image, that others did it first and made it necessary...a variation on "when in Rome do as the Romans do."
Still, I'd vote for her before John McBush.