Those Tricky Conservatives

Google "conservatives and Hillary" and you will see a swell of love for her from the far right - even O'Reilly says she is the best candidate. It is a well-known political tactic to register to vote in the opposition's primaries in order to vote for the weakest candidate. The Republicans know that the only chance they have of winning 2008 is if Hillary wins the nomination because the "Anybody but Hillary" vote would carry the day. No name is more capable of energizing the Republicans.

As one commentor said:

Republicans have been rooting for Hillary for over a decade, but not because they liked her, but because they always viewed her as uniting the GOP. They have been using the fear of Hillary to raise millions and millions of dollars

And this from a Mother Jones article:

Hillary-hating is such a national pastime, for both Democrats and Republicans, that it should be its own verb: "Hillarating." Typically, even her supporters make the case for her only after plowing through a lot of caveats, lessons learned, and after muttered contempt for some aspect of her person. Hillarating is not like normal political hating—opposing someone's ideology, for example. Loathing Hillary happens on multiple levels, ranging from her marital choices and fashion sense to her ambivalence on torture or support for a flag-burning amendment. And liberal feminists are as comfortable Hillarating as anyone else, perhaps more so.