1. Republicans are not afraid of her, they just hate her as "unfinished business" from the Clinton administration. To their minds, the Clintons were the ones who finally broke the Reagan spell, and to them that's tantamount to deicide. What especially galls them is that Bil Clinton was from the South, so they hate him as a cultural apostate. Hatred of the Clintons is personal with them: They couldn't care less what their policies are, which is why it's so insane that both Bill and Hillary have tried so hard to appease them for decades.
2. Hillary Clinton is not "flexible." Flexibility doesn't move in only one direction, but she does. Her views are those of a consummate collaborationist and appeaser, always sympathizing with the louder, more threatening voice, and telling the more rational one to be even quieter lest it provoke the other. Nor does she learn from experience. She has learned nothing from failing America during the Iraq War era. She still thinks she's right, and everyone else was wrong, and that's her default attitude. America is wrong, Democrats are wrong, history is wrong, and Hillary Clinton is NEVER wrong. That is her moral foundation.
3. I don't care if she's transparent or not, as long as what she shows isn't complete bullshit or some horrible disgrace. Unfortunately, usually it is. When she's honest, what she says is horrifying, and goes back to #2.
4. She's "listening" to what rhetorical buttons to push, and still somehow hearing the exact opposite of what people are saying. I await her next idiotic right-wing attack on the Obama administration, her own Party, and common sense as her version of "showing independence."
She is an expert at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and flushing moral authority handed to us on a silver platter straight down the toilet. That is what we could expect from her as a general election candidate. Disgrace without end, probably followed by defeat without vindication.
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