Honest Argument - Node: She is only polarizing because the right wing makes her so

Argument:	Hillary Clinton cannot win election as President of the U.S.
Node type:	This node refutes its parent
Parent Node:	She is too polarizing
Node Text:	She is only polarizing because the right wing makes her so "A guy like Giuliani is polarizing because he actively chooses to be. It's part of his persona. He wants people to hate him Hillary, by contrast, is polarizing not because she wants to be, but because the right-wing attack machine made her that way. She's "polarizing" only because a certain deranged slice of conservative nutjobs detest her. And guess what? By this standard, Jimmy Carter is polarizing. Bill Clinton is polarizing. Al Gore is polarizing. John Kerry is polarizing. Do you see the trend here? There are plenty of good reasons to oppose Hillary Clinton. But anyone who opposes her because she's polarizing is allowing the bottom feeders of modern movement conservatism to dictate who gets to run for president and who doesn't. If we want less polarizing politics, the answer isn't to oppose Hillary Clinton, who, outside the cartoon universe invented by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, holds almost relentlessly orthodox center-left opinions and expresses them in relentlessly garden-variety politician-speak. The answer is to send the right-wing rage machine back under the rock it crawled out from. Anything else is just caving in to bullies." http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/...
Node Created:	Ulysses Berman — 2007-10-14 20:15:23

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