Lets face it, most of the hate for Hillary is because she is a strong, intelligent woman........

[kurt_cagle]

88. HRC

Most of those who hate Hillary Clinton on the left are the ones that believe she is a DINO - foreign policy hawk, too close to the banks, likely to bend the rules, too moneyed, not progressive enough. The fact that she is a women makes some difference (especially among men) and I think progressives tend to delude themselves that sexism is only a problem on the right, but it's there. She is not a natural campaigner - she's far more introverted than her husband, and while she has become much better at public speaking over the last fifty years, she's a ways from being the smooth orator that Obama is.

Most of those who hate Hillary Clinton on the right hate her because she is Hillary Clinton. She is a woman seeking to be the first President, and their fragile egos just can't handle it. She was the wife of one of the most successful Democrats in the last forty years, and she never knew her place. She is the embodiment of everything they hate about the Democratic party, because in their minds, the Democrats do not have the right to rule at all.

Right now, the establishment GOP is running scared of their own candidate, because they are discovering that the Tea Party has escaped its bounds and no longer needs them. The Tea Party have a candidate they love - a crude, ignorant Ayn Rand success story businessman with a unhealthy dose of authoritarianism mixed in, and THEY hate Hillary Clinton with a fiery passion. The GOP no longer exists. Donald Trump has closed the door to all but the most pliant of women, all but the most self-hating of gays, all but the most servile of minorities. No rational person will take them seriously for a generation, at which point the party will have aged out of existence and become essentially an empty brand.

And Hillary Clinton will still be standing.