How exactly has Hillary demonstrated that she can take a punch and keep working? After the GOP killed her Health Care Bill in 1994, the White House went out of its way to underscore that she was no longer involved in policy and was relegated to a more traditional (and antiquated) "First Lady" role. She went from being held out as actively involved in policy to being in charge of china. Not China, the country, but china, the stuff people eat off of when they visit the White House. Hardly taking it on the chin and fighting back.
I'm not sure that more recent events have instilled a lot of confidence in her, either. By any objective standard, she's made some political miscalculations in the last month or so when the heat started to be turned up against her. Whether those have contributed to her fall in the polls is an arguable point, but she's gone from inevitable to vulnerable in one month, and the attacks she's getting now are peaches and cream compared to the venom she'll see from the GOP in a general election. If she reacts in the same fashion against a republican, we could see another GOP-controlled White House in 2009.
How exactly has Hillary demonstrated that she can take a punch and keep working? After the GOP killed her Health Care Bill in 1994, the White House went out of its way to underscore that she was no longer involved in policy and was relegated to a more traditional (and antiquated) "First Lady" role. She went from being held out as actively involved in policy to being in charge of china. Not China, the country, but china, the stuff people eat off of when they visit the White House. Hardly taking it on the chin and fighting back.
I'm not sure that more recent events have instilled a lot of confidence in her, either. By any objective standard, she's made some political miscalculations in the last month or so when the heat started to be turned up against her. Whether those have contributed to her fall in the polls is an arguable point, but she's gone from inevitable to vulnerable in one month, and the attacks she's getting now are peaches and cream compared to the venom she'll see from the GOP in a general election. If she reacts in the same fashion against a republican, we could see another GOP-controlled White House in 2009.