Democrats and Liberals on Hillary

When the race heats up, no doubt liberals and Democrats will rally behind Mrs. Clinton-- some honestly believing she is the best candidate, others desiring Democratic control of the Senate, still others from fear of the alternative. If a Republican or conservative legitimately and correctly criticizes Mrs. Clinton, it is too convenient to discount the statement because of the perceived bias. However, what should one say when it is someone more closely linked with her political persuasion?

• "I must put the interests of New York State above all else, and therefore I urge the Democrats who supported me in the primary to vote for Rick Lazio."

• "As a lifelong active liberal Democrat, I find the choice [between HRC & Mayor Giuliani] not difficult," "In all our campaigns, we were trying to work for decent and intelligent government. Neither Clinton can give us that. It is not in their character; and their hands are too dirty."

• ``She's not from the state, and she doesn't have this instinctive feeling for New Yorkers,''

• "...(Hillary Clinton's) decision to land in New York in order to be elected to the Senate is far more than a mere issue. It represents a fundamental assault on our most basic idea of representative democracy. ... Hillary's pretensions to having loved New York all her life are just convenient fabrications. I have been one of the three or four New Yorkers who she has known best in her life. Never, never did she comment on the state or city to me, ask any questions about it, or show any interest in its people, culture, or politics. Not once. ... Hillary does not want to join us. She will agree to live with us only if we send her to Washington. We are no more than a launching pad. When Hillary poses in a Yankee hat, it turns our stomachs."

• "Having long championed traditional Democratic causes, I simply cannot accept Mr. Clinton's shameless election-year surge to the right as his chosen means of winning a second term. And like most if not all traditional Democrats, I have grave reservations about the Clintons' morality and ethics. In my view there is now probable cause to consider our president and First Lady as felons, who are likely to be indicted after the Nov. 5 election."

• "Many have asked Bill Clinton to resign as president, but when I call for his resignation, it's personal. You see, Bill and Hillary were classmates of mine at Yale Law School in the early '70s. I used to have tremendous respect for Bill and Hillary. In fact, Bill's campaign even called me when the Gennifer Flowers story broke and asked me to speak out in defense of his morals. They knew that I had testified for Clarence Thomas a half year earlier and obviously felt that my support would help.

• "As a husband, Bill Clinton is a louse, and as a wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a collaborator and churchgoing hypocrite who has again and again propped up that façade of a happy marriage for political self-interest and whose elitist indifference to less well-educated white women has helped produce what is apparently an endless series of female targets groped, propositioned, exploited or abused by her feckless spouse.

• "The question of the first lady’s legislative track record seems irrelevant to the fantasizers. Bottom line, Schumer’s calling card was his nine terms as a congressman. Mrs. Clinton’s is her presumed ability to win. Whenever a liberal dinner party strays into a Hillary discussion, the conversation inevitably ends with, ‘But she can beat Giuliani.’ Never mind the fact that she’s never held office. Never mind the question of why she suddenly deserves this office—and why New York. Besides, her experience as a single-minded advocate wouldn’t necessarily translate well in a body where compromise is key."

• "Not only am I a native New Yorker with my kids in New York City public schools, I don't carry all of Mrs.Clinton's negative baggage."

• "It was an obvious attempt to socialize medicine...She took a hot-button issue like health care and went about things in a politically clumsy way, keeping it secret for a year and a half, having those secret meetings. And doctors, who you might think would know a thing or two about the topic, were really excluded from the process."

• "If any other taxpayer of the United States short-changed the IRS by the same amount of money, they would face prosecution."

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