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This is from a post by Robin Gerber on how Republicans plan to attack Hillary Clinton on her “authenticity”.

What I think. It’s kinda funny to me…Is there such a thing as a politician who is authentic? Should Hillary be punished for behaving exactly the way a male politician behaves? Honestly, if authenticity was the sign of a good president…then what happened with Bush (wasn’t he the guy that everybody could see themselves having a beer with)?

I think we should strongly consider focusing our attention on the policies of these candidates…I know that’s a new concept, but it’s going to take more than an “authentic” personality to fix all that is broken in this country.

So here is Robin’s post…

How will Republicans attack Hillary Clinton should she get the nomination? Karl Rove, President Bush’s political brain and Republican party uber-strategist, offers a clue in his first missive as a writer for Newsweek. He calls Hillary “a Democrat who calculates almost everything, including her accent and laugh,” and advises that anyone running against her will benefit from being “direct.”

Rove apparently believes that the best attack on Hillary is that “authenticity” thing that pundits have been bringing up against her forever. Her supposed lack of “true north.” How vulnerable is Hillary to this attack? The answer is pretty vulnerable, but not because she’s a phony. The authenticity rap against Hillary is coming straight out of the stereotype handbook, and most of the pundits putting it forward probably don’t see their own bias.

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