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Sunday, June 8, 2008
The Mystery of the Witchified Wife
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I touched on this in an earlier posting, but I’ve been thinking about it ever since: Why do conservatives seem to identify the wives of Democratic nominees as legitimate Targets of Group Hate?
The venom directed at Hillary Clinton over the years was way over the top, and oddly, it seemed to decline in intensity once she began to build a political reputation and career of her own. In her presidential run, some on the conservative side even began to admit to a grudging admiration of her. And the original example of the Witchified Wife, of course, was Eleanor Roosevelt.
More recently, Teresa Heinz, wife of John Kerry, got a good dose of hate and ridicule, and these days the Right seems positively eager to make a target of Michelle Obama and cast her as the new Hillary, even to the point of fabricating excuses to attack her.
Just as they did with Hillary — you know, the lesbian who murdered Vince Foster ….
Keep it civil.
