It’s important! Please… pretty please. Republicans for Hillary! I am one of ‘em.
Hillary entered the race saddled with inherent weaknesses. She has the kind of negative ratings candidates usually have only after the battering of a general-election campaign, not before. Her political persona ranges from grim to charmless. She may relentlessly call herself an “agent of change,” but she’s emblematic of an entire era of search-and-destroy partisan politics.
She is the Tony Robbins of negative Republican motivation. At a town-hall meeting in Derry, N.H., back in January, Mitt Romney tried to stir the crowd in the immediate wake of Barack Obama’s victory in Iowa: “We cannot afford Barack Obama as the next president.” About two people applauded. The next day he mentioned Obama again, but added, “I can’t wait to meet Hillary Clinton face to face.” Sustained applause.
“She has tremendous baggage, high negatives, and she can’t be the candidate of change,” says a top Republican strategist who pines for her to be the nominee.
Obama may give inspiring speeches at campaign events thronged by thousands, but for Republicans, there’s only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I’m not sure I agree with the idea of screwing with another party’s primary in such a way.