They say they want a woman president but the base just isn't happy with this woman. Can you blame them? It appears to be the triangulation strategy and her support of the war. The base wants their liberals to act like liberals in public, not just in private:
Scores of protestors showed up Friday outside the Washington, D.C., offices of a pro-Iraq War think tank to voice their displeasure over President Bush's expected plan to send thousands of additional U.S. troops to Iraq.I hope that this is indicative of the left but I still fear this woman might become our next president. I used to believe that the public was too smart to elect her but after this election I no longer think that.
[...]"I'm scared to death of Hillary Clinton," said Kirsten Loken of Falling Waters, W.Va. "She is a divider."
Loken, a self-described feminist who has supported the National Organization for Women for many years, said she would "absolutely love" to see a female president of the United States.
"But not Hillary Clinton," she said, "not Hillary Clinton."
[...]The four women, who traveled by car for more than an hour to Friday's protest organized by MoveOn.org, said they would "love" to see a female president — but all four were quick to say that the Democratic Party should not nominate Clinton.
Their principal reasons for opposing the former first lady are threefold: They resent her slow retreat from her 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq, they think she is "too polarizing," and they think that the centrist playbook that she and former President Clinton subscribe to undermines progressive causes.
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"Where I live," said Wilson about Jefferson County, W. Va., "I don't know anybody who supports her."
