Mrs. Clinton's true peers

From The Wall Street Journal:

She's the ultimate professional woman. So you'd think Hillary Clinton's biggest source of support would be other alpha females.

But as the New York senator's presidential campaign works to mobilize women executives, doctors and lawyers around America, it's getting a reality check: Many have resisted the call-up. So far, she's doing better among women of more modest means.

Professional women are "much harder sells" than men, says a Clinton campaign adviser. "They're tough." They are less inclined than men to see things in black and white, and seek more information before deciding, this adviser says. Events for businesswomen must be substantive, because they frequently ask more questions than businessmen, Sen. Clinton's advisers say.

At one such Clinton event, former tennis star Billie Jean King and other supporters tried to pump up the crowd as if it were a political rally. The feedback from attendees, says senior campaign adviser Ann Lewis, was "less rah-rah, more substance."

Dr. Janice Werbinski, past president of American Medical Women's Association and an early Clinton supporter, says she didn't like the New York senator's answers in a recent conference call for female physicians. "Now I'm having second thoughts," she says.

This should not surprise anyone. Women who have done well in the unforgiving and highly competitive fields of business or law or medicine where you either perform up to standards or get squashed like a grape are unlikely to have much sympathy for a woman like Mrs. Bill Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton would neither be in the United States Senate nor would she be running a credible candidacy for president if it were not for the fact that she is married to a man who was once the president.

Mrs. Clinton's entire resume consists of:

1. College.

2. Law school.

3. A bit of trendy political activism.

4. Marriage to someone who seemed to be upwardly mobile.

5. A partnership in a corrupt law firm in a backwater state where she served as a bag man for her Attorney General then Governor husband collecting bribes disguised as legal fees.

6. Eight years as First Lady where her primary job was "neutralizing women who had 'been involved' with Bill", in the words of former UN Ambassador and Clinton supporter Andrew Young.

7. One utterly unremarkable term in the US Senate in which her only accomplishments are the provision of the kind of decent constituent services that any member of congress who wishes to be reelected provides, renaming a couple of buildings and casting a few "moistened finger in the wind votes" on controversial issues which she is now trying to hide from.

Mrs. Clinton's most ambitious project, the hostile takeover of America's health care industry, was the most spectacular failure of a major White House initiative in the modern era, at least. Perhaps even in the entire history of the Republic.

In all of the tasks Mrs. Clinton set for herself during her time at the White House she proved herself to be bitter and vindictive, angry, vicious, pig-headed, petty, megalomaniacal and worst of all - from the administration's standpoint - deeply incompetent.

When you boil it all down Mrs. Clinton's most difficult task in life has been to stay married to Bill despite his compulsive and ill-concealed adultery. This is not a list of achievement designed to impress professional women.

It would, however, look pretty good to trailer trash and welfare queens. The Clinton's "Jerry Springer" lifestyle seems normal to people like them, in fact they may even seem a bit bland and conservative because none of the Clinton stories involve crack or crystal meth (so far as we know) - although Bill has been reported to have sniffed powder cocaine off various women's body parts (I know you didn't need the mental picture, sorry).

To women who look to the government to fill the role of husband and father a woman who is essentially married to a government position and whose entire professional life has been a form of government handout would seem to be a true sister.

It is here among her true peers that Mrs. Clinton is at her best. The welfare parasites, illegal aliens, convicted felons, sexual perverts of all types and other assorted societal bottom-feeders are her natural constituency. These are the people whose dysfunction renders them dependant and who will gladly exchange their liberty for the security of the dole.