Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
Hating Hillary
By Garry Wills
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham
by David Brock
Free Press, 452 pp., $26.00
The frustration on the right wing has been palpable during this election. Nothing Bob Dole was trying seemed to work. But many of his troops felt that nothing should be needed. To the right wing, Bill Clinton is so self-evidently evil—and his wife even eviler—that a righteous public would welcome the chance to get rid of them, no matter who was running on the other side. Talk show hosts, who regularly praise 'real people' as opposed to 'government' or politicians or inside-the-beltway types, were horrified that the public was not as indignant as it should be. Neal Boortz, the talk show host known as 'the Mouth of the South,' said: 'We can survive a dishonest President. We can survive a scheming First Lady. We can't survive an indifferent and lazy electorate.'
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