AS, in the latest of a reasonably long line, now, of attempts to rationalize the distaste for Hillary:
Yes, I'm worried about what she'd [Hillary] do to the American healthcare industry. But the purge of excellence is coming anyway. -AS
Does anyone just find it laughable that "stock" conservative/Conservative doctrine is that "Government" is assumed to be inefficient yet "Industry" is assumed to be excellent?
We know the failings of government, for sure. But seriously, is there much evidence that industry aspires to or delivers excellence? Be careful before you respond ... the list is long. (It includes Groucho Marx's humor, too, beware ...)
Hillary's unfavorables run the highest among Republican men. No poll that I've seen has yet traced that particular dislike to any one thing or even a concrete item.
One can also guess that the following play a role:
1. They don't like her sheer viability, either outright or from a strategic perspective.
Hilliary is an effective politician. She's not some wild-eyed idealist, who the Right can count on to tranquilize and pacify the "liberal spirit" over four years, mostly by flaming out.
She's just as likely as her husband to figure out how to govern from the center. Accordingly, there is a real fear of her, even if it is gut-reactionary, unarticulated.
What's worse (for them), it's true what her campaign has said. She will know what to do once she is in office to unwind their Reagan Devolution, as much as possible, from the Federal Judiciary to the EPA (slammed by a Federal Judge for foot dragging) on down to the "over-the-line" bits of Monica Goodling's hiring practices - the list is LONG.
2. They don't like the way she talks to them.
She puts her progressive values right into their face AND lectures them about it. They like to be the ones doing the lecturing, some of them (especially in the righteous wing of the Party), and they really don't like this role-reversal.
3. They don't like the fact that she is a woman.
BUT ... not for the reasons you think. For one thing, they are frustrated that their own party, despite good candidates, cannot put up a female front runner and the Dems have already had two (if I count Geraldine). They have reason to be worried that History will dust them, yet again.
For another thing, to many (especially the older ones), women are ... how shall we say?, "soft targets". They find it hard to "attack" them. They don't like it. One Bit.
4. None of the above.
For some, like AS, Hillary isn't ... er, Margaret Thatcher, the iron lady, a lion rather than a fox.
