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"Nixon In A Pant Suit"

By The Daily Dish
Jun 18 2007, 6:16 AM ET

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A reader writes:

I am surprised that the Politerati, or DC's chattering class, have not seen the parallels between Hillary Clinton and Richard Nixon. They both have brilliant strategic minds, suffer from extreme paranoia about the enemy of their agenda, and both are extremely secretive. Nixon had very high negatives, and re-launched his "brand" image in the 1968 campaign, just as Hillary is doing in 2007. In short, Hillary is Nixon in a dress, or more appropriately Nixon in a pant suit. We saw what happened the first time we entrusted the White House to a person with behavioral traits like this. Do we want to go through it again?

(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty.)



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