One on one...Hillary comes across as just another human being.
And you know what stinkers THEY are!
Most of the guys on these boards would find that they could carry on a fairly decent conversation with her. I once had the opportunity to talk with her back when she was governor of Arkansas, and she was polite, knowledgeable, and seemed to respect what I had to say. However, the topic was early childhood education, a sort of common ground for the both of us, so nothing controversial came up.
As to her relationship with Bill, let me say that the affair with Monica undoubtedly did NOT come as a surprise to her. It was common knowledge in Arkansas, snickeringly acknowledged in state newspapers and magazines that Ole Slick had been letting his horse out of the corral before, during, and after his marriage to Hillary. There was NO WAY that she didn't know about it. Yet, she married him anyway and put up with his philandering during his entire tenture as governor of our state.
You may feel differently about it, but I find it hard to have any respect for a woman who puts up with that type of unprincipled behavior. To my mind, there's only ONE reason she endured it...ambition. She fully intended to ride her husband's coattails into political office. There's nothing wrong with ambition as long as one isn't subject to the disease that often attends it.
There are a number of reasons that I wouldn't vote for her. First, she's a dyed-in-the-wool socialist. Put her in office with democratic majorities in both houses and you have a recipe for fiscal disaster of the first magnitude.
Secondly, she would have the same f-e-c-kless attitude toward foreign policy that characterized Bill's administration.
Third, much of the hostility displayed towards the military by Slick's staff has been attributed to Hillary and her cronies. I feel she neither respects or understands the military, and would draw up policies designed to neuter it. In that regard, she would have been perfectly at ease with the isolationist, anti-military governments of the 1920s and 1930s.
Fourth, she has little understanding of, or inclination to understand, the rural and conservative values that I hold dear. The policies and causes she has championed since her college days in the 1960s have caused considerable harm to the social, political, and spiritual institutions of the nation.
Lastly, I fear she is far more ruthless than Bill ever dreamed of being. Hand her the Oval Office with solid democratic majorities and she would exhibit a political intransigence unlike anything the country has ever seen.
