Karma Chameleon Hillary

From The Politico.com:

Last week at a YWCA in Manchester, N.H., she recounted the struggle to balance her law career with motherhood. “Late one night, [Chelsea] was crying inconsolably. I said, ‘Chelsea, you’ve never been a baby before, and I’ve never been a mother before; we’re just going to have to work and figure this out,’” Clinton recalled.

Adherants to the world's third largest religion would disagree. Hinduism contends that both Hillary and Chelsea have indeed been daughters and mothers before - and for that matter, sons and fathers - as they've looped through the cycle of samsara in previous iterations while trying to assuage the inconsolable crying that is the byproduct of our disharmony with the phenomenal world.

But Hillary wasn't speaking to a crowd full of Hindu voters, so the message wasn't calibrated accordingly. It's all in the name of locking down a sizable swath of the electorate, by swapping back and forth between the simpatico mom who "gets it" on certain issues and the strong, independent woman who (not really) blazed a trail to the halls of power. The article cites Sue Faludi:

“My sense of [Clinton] is that she is, before everything else, a supreme pragmatist,” Faludi said. “She is certainly careful to avoid spouting women’s lib rhetoric, and that goes back to her being a realist, and that goes back to where the culture is.”

Everyone agrees that this transparent philandering will impress some voters and leave others ready to vomit. But nobody agrees yet on how those proportions will shake out going into the general election.

And whoever the Republicans nominate, they are going to have to plan their response to her candidacy with grace and good humor. Even the most substantial policy disagreement, if framed in forceful terms, will be counter-framed as a mean-spirited attack by Hillary and her handlers. And any response to that strategy will be distorted accordingly as defensiveness or a tacit acknowledgment that GOP tactics are not merely hardball politics but an intemperate incivility directed at one who only wants to "help people".

Tags: Hillary, Death, Rebirth