They are very smart and are able to accomplish progressive things.
I really believe that Hillary is the brains in the relationship.

Blue collar, under-educated voters, who believe Fox news reports, hate the Clintons because of lies, about them, which appear credible.

well she, has girls parts and thinks she should be allowed to speak out loud.

Bill was smart enough to usurp some of their pet issues, such as welfare "reform", free trade, and crime. He also has a charisma that they lack. And, it pisses them off to no end. They try to beat him, but they just can't. Each failed attempt at taking them down results in the republicans becoming more pissed off, and more entrenched. Their hatred is pathological, at this point.

chipping in.

Those wingnuts, they've got their claws wrapped tightly around their wallets. They don't want to "chip in."

they've been rabid to cause a failed Democratic presidency. They're not any worse now than they were to Pres. Obama. Remember the "fist bump", the "flag pin", the "apology tour", the Kenyan "hatred of western democracy", the damn birth certificate? They're twisted.

and along with it the importance of the media to carrying the story along.

to manufacture a Republican FDR (immensely popular) and a Democratic Nixon (immensely hated) in order to influence new generations of voters.

Thus, Reagan and Clinton.

... provide more than security and contract enforcement for the wealthy.

If Clinton had never been President, it's doubtful 'W' would ever have felt the need to have a revenge Presidency. We would have been better off without that, but worse off without Clinton's Presidency.

These people are convinced that the Democratic party is plotting to take their hard earned taxes and hand them over to undeserving black people instead of to Lockheed Martin where it belongs.

... through grants given to foreign countries (on the condition that the money is used to buy our weapons), conservative propagandists on the radio will make it sound like it's strictly hand-outs to the other countries while we have poor people in this country. "That's what liberals are doing with your tax money, folks!"

ending their glorious ReaganReich. They've never gotten over it.

Bill Clinton had the nerve to deny the first modern King George his "entitlement" to a second term. They've held a grudge ever since then.

This was the answer President Clinton gave when he was asked why the repugnantcans hate him so much.

Impeachment trial.

Before he was around, people honestly thought that Republicans were better for the economy than Democrats.

Republicans claimed he would ruin the economy, but instead it boomed, embarrassing them. They then focused almost exclusively on conspiracy theories and so-called "character issues", financing constant attacks on them. And when they finally did come up with something, it was prevaricating about a blow-job. They impeached, and Clinton's favorables went up. Theirs went down. The public didn't give a damn - good old Bill was getting good jobs for everyone, including late night comedians.

They couldn't stand it.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

I was in high school and college then and general feeling was there were lots of good jobs out there if you got an education. The tone seemed to shift dramatically when Bush Jr got elected and it was hard finding decent professional jobs post 9/11. I found something eventually, but the search was much more difficult than it had been for people graduating just a few years prior to me. It continues to be pretty competitive to get jobs for college grads. They all pretty much have to do unpaid internships to get a shot at good paying job now.

I think they never recovered from watergate and need to prove democrats are a corrupt as republicans - and W did not help the cause.

any Democrat, is just as bad.

managed to depose the patrician who rightfully held the throne -- the first George Bush.

And Hillary, a smart young feminist and progressive, was everything they hated in a woman.

Wingers hate that.

Oh...And they WIN!

After putting up with these a$$holes, putin will be a piece of cake.

The Reptilian Brain (R) is pretty damn primal.

he was a singularly potent political force and, left unchallenged, he could have steamrolled all over the republicans. they had to do something to tarnish his brand and try to reduce his clout and derail his agenda.

lacking anything real, they fabricated scandal after scandal.

hillary doesn't have the same personal charisma, but she has a powerful machine behind her, so they're similarly desperate to trash her as well.

. . . the GOP have had nothing but failed presidencies ridden with scandal, terrorist attacks, war and economic ruin and horrible candidates to try and restore whatever dignity they could muster from those failures.

How desperate is it that there's a campaign to name everything cemented down after a president who oversaw the installation of a plutonomy, had more officials indicted for scandal, a wholesale transfer of risk from the wealthy to the middle/working/poor and the cherry on top . . . high treason?

Their last Presidency is surely going to go down as the worst in modern history and at least in the top 3 of the worst EVER.

They cannot stand that America simply performs better and is far more confident with a Democratic president at the helm. Time is marching on and they're, plain and simple, NOT. They're pining for a time where they can finally finish the job Bewsh started and have complete subjugation of labor to the corporations. The GOP is not even a dust-speck interested in making things fairer, they just want to make money and lots of it for their handlers and it's getting harder and harder every year to sell a more informed public on their platform of rottenness.

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I's the result of well-funded RW propaganda paired with the totalitarian mindset of the target audience.

I posted basically the same thing downthread.

People like Rush owe a huge thanks for the millions Hillary and Bill made him.

but was never talked about till they named it.

And ruined the Rs dream of holding the White House for decades. Plus, Hillary's a woman who actually worked.

"The Clintons make the Republicans show their red asses." And their asses have become redder with each passing year.

Final answer.

Republican voters? They bought it, so they believe it.

Bill Clinton fucked that up when he defeated George H.W. Bush.

Republicans went completely insane after that.

and effective and will get things happening that right wingers don't want happening.

They are Democrats....and they actually have accomplished stuff positive stuff for people...

and no matter how much they try to smear the Clintons and even when they genuinely mess up, people still generally like them. Unfortunately, this year, they've also brought a fairly vocal crowd of anti-HRC left-wingers along to help support them in their derangement but still, at a time where the Republicans had held the WH for 12 consecutive years, Bill Clinton finally ended it in 1992 and they failed to make him a one-term President. Plus, there's a very real chance that Democrats might actually have the WH for 12 years if Hillary wins this year and possibly more if they can't get their party in order at the national level.