Reply #13: Seriously? I'll tell you.

[Basileus Basileon]

It's because Hillary is a woman (stick with me here). She is aware that her greatest weakness is her gender; a liberal-sounding woman would come off to too many people as being an enormously powerful nanny. To compensate, she has followed in the footsteps of the Iron Lady Thatcher, and has adopted the right-wing frame of leadership. Rather than the left-wing Considerer or Provider, she acts as the Decider. She acts strong, aggressive, does not apologize, does not back down, and does not fear to attack outright. She does not shy from saber-rattling, nor does she shy from insulting the moderator at a debate. She is brash. She is headstrong. She acts, in every regard, like a Republican.

Now, she votes like a Democrat. She's voted with the Democratic party 97% of the time (if anyone asks me to back this up, I'll just stick the link in my sig again). She is a liberal through and through, and if she were a man who spoke like John Kerry the Republicans would already be smearing her as a out-of-the-mainstream super-liberal.

But she acts like a right-wing politician. And it's a testament to the ability of her spin machine that she's even managed to convince DU that she's not a liberal.