electability

If she were to win the Democratic Party nomination, I wonder how the Right will "swiftboat" Hillary? Not that it would necessarily succeed: the Right has thrown everything at her over the last 16 years, but she's still around. Her very existence seems to agitate a subset of American conservatives like nothing else. Maybe they'll pull quotes from a samizdat copy of her B.A. thesis at Wellesley (or maybe they'll just make them up), which will prove who the "real Hillary" really, really, really is. Ironically, what is actually revealed in the Right's Hillary obsession is the unconscious of this group of conservatives: their recurrent fears, deepest anxieties, and secret pleasures.